Since you guys are great at providing feedback for alpha stage apps I wanted to throw ours out there.<p><a href="http://www.omnisio.com/communitynext/funding-panel" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnisio.com/communitynext/funding-panel</a><p><a href="http://www.omnisio.com/communitynext/where-ive-been" rel="nofollow">http://www.omnisio.com/communitynext/where-ive-been</a><p>Those are two pages of content within our site. We're still closed to the public, so you wont find them linked from the main page.<p>Basically we are building a platform that will change the way people learn online. The examples above are only a very tiny subset of what we will offer, but show a couple of interesting ways of presenting conference sessions. The content is courtesy of the great Community Next conference earlier this month on the Facebook Platform.<p>All feedback is welcome - the more brutal the better :)
This is pretty cool. But after going to omnisio.com and reading the description, and even reading your description here, I'm not sure what it does. Does it just show conference videos? Making a bold ambiguous comment like the site will "change the way people learn online," should have something backing that up. Will it change the way people learn online by showing informative videos?<p>Still, well-designed site, and useful content.
Hi Ryan,<p>The thing that struck me as really useful was the way you could use the slides to get an overview of and jump around inside a presentation. For me, that looks like a killer feature that could make me want to watch presentation videos through your viewer.<p>Except that the thumbnails of the slides are <i>just</i> too small to actually <i>read</i>. To make them useful for me for scanning the presentation without watching it all, I believe they would have to be big enough that the text is legible.
You should take a look at <a href="http://videolectures.net" rel="nofollow">http://videolectures.net</a> which is a website dedicated to scientific content. More specifically, they go to different conferences (mostly machine learning related), bring their own camera crew, and later synchronize videos with ppt presentations. They don't have a business model because they are funded (and "owned") by some Slovenian government/university/research institution.<p>
I like the look and feel of your pages a lot. Not too "strictly nerdish simple web 2.0ish", but simple and look good.<p>The content you have there seems to work very nicely. Nice usable details, like when you move you mouse over the thumbnails of the slides.<p>Sorry about the lack of brutality. ;)
Pretty neat. I was expecting the video to be synchronized with slides somehow, i.e. I roll through the slides on the left, pick one and the video jumps to it.<p>Have you done a decent competitive analysis? I am not familiar with this space, but from what I know there are plenty of players.