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April 29, 2007
Discovered at Garage Geeks: 5min
Last Thursday night while I was attending the Garage Geeks event in Holon (outside of Tel Aviv), I met with the people behind a new startup which just launched 5min, "a Live Videopedia", a site dedicated to "How to" videos.
According to their about us page:
"5min is a place to find short video solutions for any practical question and a forum for people wanting to share their knowledge.
The vision behind 5min is a very simple one: any solution can be visually explained in no more than 5 minutes. Our aim is to create the first communal Life Videopedia allowing users from all over the globe to contribute their knowledge by sharing visual guides covering arts, business, fashion, sports, health, tech, food, and much more.
5min's basic philosophy is that everybody is an expert in something. The video era gives us the technological opportunity to share our collective knowledge and gather it onto one platform. This is what 5min aims to be – a platform for users, a platform for creators, a platform for talent and anyone that has something to teach.
In order to bring to life our vision of creating a comprehensive Life Videopedia, 5min gives each creator a private promotional Studio – a space to show his/her skills, and share his/her secrets.
Users of 5min also benefit from a visual illustration of any solution through a Smart Player. Unlike other video sites on the internet, 5min has created a video player adjusted specifically for the Videopedia vision. While uploading a movie, the creator can enhance it by adding a textual storyboard to the video – helping all of us understand his demonstration.
The 5min project needs your knowledge! We encourage you to take a camera and be part of our community. If you know other talented people, invite them to contribute as well.
After all, we all have something to learn from each other. This is the place to start."
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I also share 5min's basic philosophy that everybody is an expert in something. :)
5min is now on my personal watchlist of interesting Internet TV startups to watch.
Tags: 5min, Internet TV, Tel Aviv, GarageGeeks, Jeff Pulver
Posted by jeff on April 29, 2007 11:43 AM | Permalink
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It shows yet again that brilliant minds think alike. I have been preaching to my wife about a year that we must do a startup similar to this.
I wonder if they have in their business model something about compensating the video creators. That will really kick things up a notch and will get true experts to contribute quality videos.
Posted by: Adi Rabinovich at April 30, 2007 06:26 PM
Brilliant. Spent a total of 7 minutes and learnt 3 new things (nice to see that some folks get their messages across in 2 and 3 minutes as well).
RSS feeds would be nice though. I can see a huge benefit around monitoring and receiving alerts on keywords/topic/geo-specific content.
Posted by: sameer at April 29, 2007 09:41 PM