Annotating online video with Veeple

Here's another application that might make videocasting more interesting, educational, and engaging for libraries and their customers.  Veeple is a new online video tool that lets anyone add interactive, clickable spots (which they call "VeeSpots") to video.  The spots can offer text, links to webpages, links to documents, PowerPoints, or PDFs, or to other video.  One really simple example of how this would be useful in libraries would be for the library to create a video tour of the library with clickable spots that offered a pop-up text box with more information about that area or service (e.g. a link from the audiobook shelves might talk about the types of books, check-out period, etc.). 

You can see examples of how this works in their "showroom."  The service is free through March 2009, after which point the pricing kicks in ($49/month with additional charges for videos viewed more than 5,000 times per month).  They talk about ads and ad revenue going to subscribers, but that's not in effect yet.  So while it's still free, take a look, try it out, see if you like it, and see if your library would get $49/month's worth out of the product.