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Flickr, as planned, has partnered with Picnik...

Jordan Golson — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:36:22 EST

Flickr, as planned, has partnered with Picnik to bring online editing of photos to its users. Interesting that Yahoo went for a partnership than purchasing the company outright or developing its own editing program. Flickr's George Oates says, "Rather than Flickr diverting from our speciality to enter a realm we had no (particular) expertise in, the thought of a partnership seemed much more sensible." Which would make sense if Yahoo didn't own Jumpcut, a site which provides online video-editing tools. [Flickr Blog]

Mitt Romney's campaign is airing a user-generated...

Owen Thomas — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:00:00 EDT

Mitt Romney's campaign is airing a user-generated advertisement, solicited from users of Yahoo's YouTube-like Jumpcut service, for the Republican presidential candidate. This is, of course, a refreshing change from politicians passing lobbyist-generated bills. [Advertising Age]

Yahoo buys Jumpcut, the actually useful video site

Nick Douglas — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:44:38 EDT

While video giant YouTube stays indie, the mob of smaller video sharing services is selling out, one by one (Grouper to Sony, for example). Today, video mixing service Jumpcut announced that Yahoo bought it, celebrating with a cute video, remixable like all vids on the service.

Jumpcut's not just another me-too; its sophisticated, intuitive web-based editing system has great potential for wide consumer use. And its business model? Yahoo buyouts don't need business models.

Jumpcut Joins the Yahoo! Family [Jumpcut Blog]

June/July Valleyschwag review: 5 stars for cookies

Nick Douglas — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:02:42 EDT

The point of schwag (and the reason the Valley is buried in it) is to remind a consumer of an otherwise ethereal product or service. The less physical (or popular) the thing the schwag markets, the more the burden of cost falls on the schwag giver. (This is why Apple can sell its t-shirts while, say, Browster.com must give them away.)

It is thus with greatest pleasure that I opened the July edition of Valleyschwag. The monthly branded-geegaws package outdid itself by scoring some edibles from aol.com. Love or loathe it, any site that sends Superman cookies bound up with its logo is a winner. The crumbs may fade, but the memory of AOL's gesture — or is that just the saturated fat — will stick with me.

Equally scrumptious is the fortune cookie from Mozes, which tells me to text "fortune" to 66937 for my fortune. Not that I bothered texting, as adding "in bed" to "Mozes" was entertainment enough.

After the jump, more schwag, and someone's holding a hoedown.

Edgeio sends a pleasantly generic sticker that won't go on my iBook, as do abazab, eurekster, and snubster.

AOL accompanies the cookies with a dogtag bearing that little man. He's jumping. It's a symbol of an AOL user trying to fly. AOL must represent gravity, or lost dreams or something.

Jumpcut sends a rough but rightly-sized (small) tee. The logo looks cool enough to wear on an off day.

That's everything except waitwhat'sthisit'saPOSTER FROM VALLEYSCHWAG! Looks like the cowboys are holding a hoedown on July 14 at their office in South Park, San Francisco. Check out the deets and RSVP here.

Valleyschwag [Official site]
Valleyschwag hoedown [Announcement]

Foosball showdown, Valleyschwag vs. Jumpcut

Nick Douglas — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:20:45 EDT

Foosball games in the dot-com-heavy South Park neighborhood don't mean there's a bubble — it'll be a bubble when a San Francisco startup has room for ping-pong tourneys. But it still felt like 1993 (for those of us who weren't still in grade school) at the offices of Jumpcut.com today. A team from the online-video-editing startup battled the guys from Valleyschwag (the schwag-magazine division of web-dev company Rubyred Labs, which lives across the street). It was a foosball tournament for the ages — or at least for the weekend.

Beer flowed, balls were smacked, we learned something about Google co-founder Larry Page. Check out the video, a slightly trimmed version of the official Jumpcut cut by Jumpcut employees Ashot and Steve.

High point: Noticing that Jumpcut's foosball men are all named (and labeled) after soccer stars and businessmen. Low point: Summer heat making these geeks sweat and smell more like b-ballers than foosballers.

Valleyschwag vs. Jumpcut Foos Tourney [Jumpcut video]