Startups
Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of the structure within a video. On May 13, 2008, Omnisio launched a slide-syncing tool using SlideShare for slides and a host of video services.
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Location
United States, California, Atherton
Investors 1
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| Jan 29, 2009 | Adding YouTube Annotations Just Got Easy. I've Got A Bad Feeling About This… | For better or for worse, YouTube has just made it easier to add annotations to your videos. Annotations, which were introduced to the site last June, consist of little grey popups that can include standard text boxes or speech bubbles, or o... |
| Aug 22, 2008 | The top 15 ways to get on with TechCrunch Europe, and maybe other media | So as this terrible wet August / Summer ends and online battle re-commences once more, I thought I may as well have a stab at giving you some ideas about how to interact with a blog like this. I’m going to use as inspiration Jason Calacanis... |
| Aug 2, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 28 July – 1 August 2008 | It’s time to wrap up the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reviewed a super-hyped new search engine called Cuil, analysed the BT acquisition of web telephony platform Ribbit, looked at why Go... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Google Acquires Omnisio To Spice Up YouTube | Google has acquired Atherton, CA based startup Omnisio, the companies are announcing this afternoon. Omnisio, which is a Y Combinator company, first demo’d to us in early March 2008, and it launched later that month. The price is not being ... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Google Acquires Omnisio | Maybe to counter some of the bad news around YouTube today, Google just announced the acquisition of the Y Combinator funded video annotation and mashup company Omnisio. According to Google, the acquisition of Omnisio will allow them to kee... |
| May 13, 2008 | Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations | Omnisio has launched a tool that presenters will find very useful for conveying their messages to online audiences. The new presentation tool takes slideshows uploaded in PDF format or to SlideShare and synchronizes them with videos uploade... |
| Apr 19, 2008 | Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School | Today marked the fourth year of Y Combinator’s startup school, and judging by the overflowing auditorium that persisted throughout the event, it was a runaway success. A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanfo... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Slice and Dice Online Videos with Omnisio | Even though video has become a popular internet pastime over the past few years, there’s still a very little that average people can do with it. They can watch it, comment on it, and embed it on social networks and blogs if it tickles their... |
| Mar 19, 2008 | Ten Y Combinator companies that want to revolutionize social networking, search, databases and anything else you can think of | VentureBeat Editor Matt Marshall and I attended the Spring 2008 Y Combinator Demo Day yesterday, where we were both pretty blown away. Okay, so I’m easy to impress, but Matt’s a tougher nut to crack — just ask some of the start-ups who’ve b... |
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FAQ about Omnisio
What has the press written about Omnisio?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Omnisio, among them “Adding YouTube Annotations Just Got Easy. I've Got A Bad Feeling About This…” (Jan 29, 2009) and “The top 15 ways to get on with TechCrunch Europe, and maybe other media” (Aug 22, 2008).
Is Omnisio still active?
Yes, Omnisio is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 21, 2020.