Jumpcut

Jumpcut founder Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School, but about 10 years ago, he spent his summer in an unlikely way: he wrote a screenplay. Set in…

Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

Yahoo’s closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid. In December they announced that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they…

Yahoo Putting Jumpcut In The Deadpool?

4:26 am PST • December 17, 2008

Online video editing service Jumpcut, which was acquired by Yahoo! in September 2006, appears to be in the process of shutting down. From their website: We’re sorry to announce that…

Cuts Launches Amidst Online Video Editor War

2:19 pm PST • February 21, 2007

Ever since the social video market boomed through 2006, some video services have sought to differentiate themselves by adding online editors. Jumpcut and Motionbox launched their editors last April and…

All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging

10:37 pm PDT • October 1, 2006

The popularity of rich media publishing (such as podcasting and videocasting, the YouTube phenomenon, etc.) is a problem for search engines and people trying to use search engines to find…

Yahoo! has acquired Jumpcut

9:32 am PDT • September 27, 2006

The Yahoo! family expanded again today with the acquisition of online video editing service Jumpcut. Here’s the Jumpcut post on the announcement and here’s the Yahoo! Search post. Based in…

JumpCut In Deal With FoxAtomic

8:00 am PDT • July 24, 2006

JumpCut, reviewed here by Michael Arrington several months ago, announced a licensing deal for its browser-based video editing software with FoxAtomic today. FoxAtomic will use Jumpcut to enable online auditions…

No sooner did I proclaim Motionbox the best online video sharing service (mostly for its editing and deep tagging tools), than a new contender arrives on the scene. San Francisco…