Interview with David Geller of Eyejot
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“Eyejot”:http://www.eyejot.com is the first, comprehensive, client-free video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications that offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. It’s like video email, except it�s better!David Geller is the founder and CEO of Eyejot. He is also the founder and CEO of “WhatCounts”:http:www.whatcounts.com, a leader in comprehensive e-communication programs leveraging the power of targeted permission-based email messaging, interactive two-way dialogue, personalized content syndication (RSS) and extensive marketing services. He remains the CEO of WhatCounts while launching Eyejot. |
What is your vision for the future of electronic communication?
Video communications between individuals and small groups will become increasingly popular as new computers start to come with attached cameras and mobile devices begin offering standard web browsers, mobile Flash and 3G and 4G networks.
How will you work with email clients to integrate Eyejot? What is your projected time frame?
Eyejot is a perfect addition to email and there’s a natural migration for some types of communications. But, we’ve never suggested that video messaging would replace email. They both have very important roles. In terms of a time frame, we’re already seeing a huge adoption rate of people using Eyejot and other video platforms. We estimate that this year alone we’ll see more than 14 million new web-cam enabled laptops reach the market…and the prospect for mobile-originated content are even greater with tens of millions of new phones coming to market with great embedded cameras running on decent to fast networks.
If “YouTube”:http://www.youtube.com decided to begin offering a similar service, how would you stay ahead and what would be your plan of action?
YouTube already allows users to record videos through a flash recorder. But, our platforms are fundamentally different. YouTube is all about user generated content designed to be broadcast and seen by lots of people. Eyejot is about one-to-one or one-to-a-few private communications. Just like email, but with video. We don’t expect YouTube and Eyejot to intersect too much. But, we’re happy that YouTube has made so many people aware of video and that makes our platforms complimentary to one another. We plan to keep innovating so that our users are happy with our platform and so that it’s constantly serving their needs. This will include increased support for mobile devices, added features for interaction with video and some features we’ve got planned that we think will appeal to corporate users.
Bonus: What was the first Eyejot you watched on your iPod?
It would have to have been one that was generated by myself or one of my partners. To be honest, I don’t recall the details. So much was happening in preparation for our launch that things like who sent the first Eyejot, when was the first mobile Eyejot received, etc. have been lost in the mix. But, that’s a good thing. We like the fact that things have been so busy and users have been swarming to the platform. We’ve also been surprised and delighted by some of the uses we’ve seen for Eyejot. One of the more interesting, to us, as been its adoption by some people in the hearing impaired community. Apparently signing with Eyejot can be faster than typing. Plus, the same benefits that we’ve been talking about for everyone apply - namely - the fact that with video it’s so easy to impart emotion, energy, excitement, sadness, jubilation, etc.
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