Reality Check: Veotag

Veotag, Inc. enables people to place navigation tags in video and audio files. For example, if a speaker uses the top-ten format, you can tag where each section begins.

Listeners/viewers can then click on tags to navigate the digital content. Think of this as adding a table of contents to audio or video. Search engines can index these tags, so digital content will show up in search results. Here are several samples to illustrate the concept.

• Speeches by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start and The Art of Innovation

• Majora Carter's speech at the TED Conference with Guy’s tags to highlight her techniques.

• Audio: Garage’s venture capital panel

• High School Baseball: Westfield versus Dayton

• Video documentary: Apollo 11

• Distance Learning: Teaching Dance Remotely

• Jazz at Lincoln Center: Wynton Marsalis Interview

Here’s an example of a Google search that returns a link that, when followed, takes you inside a video. Search for “SwiftKids Dora” at Google or click on this link.

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Comments

[Ebrahim]

This should eventually help in better Audio/Podcast search.

Neat Idea. Thumbs up!

[Innovation Zen]

The concept is pretty interesting. Whether it will spread or not depends on how Veotag will manage the relationship with social networks, online communities and other information sources around the net.

[JMO]

I would rather use something like the flickr note system to add link "in" the video. Most of our video podcast can provide interactive links, this links are also tags. I don't find a solution to visually add links into the video after having it on a server.