Making Videos Interactive
Have you ever wondered why, when text is so easy to index and search, online videos are still so...well, linear? A Web-based application, Click.TV, aims to change all that. Click.TV, which can be used on any Web page showing Flash videos, allows users to add comments to a video, associate the comments with specific points in the video stream and then search within the video based on the comments. A content owner could create an index of bookmarks -- similar in principle to the scene-selection menu on a movie DVD -- so that viewers can skip directly to the most interesting or important parts of the video, or watch their favorite scenes over and over again. Producers can also add commentary, context, expert opinions or translation to their videos, or let viewers add their own commentary. Both producers and users can insert hyperlinks into their comments.
