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By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:22:47 +0000

Zoopy TV is nothing like Justin.tv. It’s not about streaming video but rather about self-produced shows visible online and via mobile, ranging from iWitness News to Out & About to a whole lot more on the way. Hope you’re starting to get my point!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:06:56 +0000

Zoopy TV? You mean the one that imitates Justin.TV? I hope you’re starting to see my point here…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:38:42 +0000

You left out Zoopy TV in your comparison/put-down, by the way

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:03:08 +0000

So you take a little youtube, add some flickr and writely, spice it up with an mp3/mp4 upload or two and you’ve got an original idea? Really? No seriously, really???
Can’t you do better than that?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:59:29 +0000

Vinny, I’m afraid Google fails to corroborate that statement. If you took (the rather extreme measure of putting) Synthasite back into private beta, what does that say about the product at the time? Was it a true AJAX Sitebuilder, or maybe just a few dhtml/jscript snazzies for editing html?
To be honest I don’t even really know how one truely defines an AJAX sitebuilder anyway. What level of dynamic ability must it have to be AJAX? One xmlhttprequest somewhere in a page’s script would make it AJAX. If that xmlhttprequest causes an html element to be created somewhere, you’ve got a sitebuilder.
Besides, sitebuilders bore me.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:39:58 +0000

Last time I checked, YouTube doesn’t combine videos, photos, audio and notes (and self-produced video – http://www.zoopy.com/tv) into one destination.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:17:02 +0000

You need to check your facts. SynthaSite was the very first AJAX Sitebuilder to launch, way back in September 2005. We then took it back into private Beta. Check TechCrunch to confirm.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:50:53 +0000

Ok that’s a fair enough answer…

I guess it came down to more speed, less haste?

By: justinhartman

justinhartman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:25:43 +0000

Hi Marc – because it was such a great idea and we had great response from potential advertisers we thought we had to get it out so we could try and do something before the end of the year.

We needed to get the bloggers’ buy-in so that we could start to work with them to get code implemented on their site and start earning them some revenue. Had we waited on it we would never have been able to offer anything before the end of the year.

To be honest, next year was just too late in our opinion.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:15:33 +0000

Can I ask what the rush was?

Its a great idea and offering – why did it need to be rushed through like this??