Industry expert, founder and chief evangelist for Email Data Source Bill McCloskey wrote about Eyejot in a post made to ClickZ today. While describing some of successes and failures in the video mail space he wrote "tools like Eyejot are pretty exciting. Eyejot lets you create on the fly personalized video e-mails quickly and very cheaply."
The Wall Street Journal's Emily Steel mentioned Eyejot in her article Video Gets Entrée Into Email which was posted live today. The article primarily focused on Goodmail's recently announced product aimed at helping publishers get video players successfully placed and operational inside email messages.
This has long been a challenge for web-based email platforms. They have, for security and control reasons, intentionally stripped out HTML embed and object code, which is required to, for example, host a Flash player (or more nefarious playloads). So, the industry has reacted by either embedding static images that look like they're part of a movie and invite the reader to "click to view" or, more creatively, have utilized animated GIF images to expose some motion in the hopes of guaranteeing a "click to view."
The Goodmail solution is certainly interesting but it's primarily an agreement they've established with only a few ISPs. So their solution isn't universal. For us that's a problem. While it might be really cool to play video inside of an email message, unless it's a solution that can be used all the time, everywhere, it may ultimately be less effective than more traditional techniques.
Incidentally, Eyejot intends to offer an animated GIF option for its notification messages to PRO Plus members in the near future.
Contributing Editor James Martin from PCWorld posts Videoconferencing Tips: Travel Less in 2009 and mentions Eyejot. He also lists a number of other great products and services you should examine.
Eyejot's CEO David Geller joined Computer Outlook's John Iasiuolo Sunday morning for Java with John. Computer Outlook is broadcast "LIVE" Monday thru Friday from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Pacific Time and Sunday mornings 10:05 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time on Fox News Radio Station KDOX – 1280 AM. It can be accessed through www.computeroutlook.com and is simultaneously streamed over the internet by Tech Outlook Central Internet Radio Network www.techoutlookcentral.com.
Mitch Ratcliffe, writing for ZDNet, called our new Eyejot Document Attachments functionality "enterprise gold" in his post Video messaging: Every mail a pitch for attention.
The Seattle Times' technology writer Briar Dudley took a look at Eyejot Document Attachments and wrote about the new feature in his blog.
PC Magazine has always been kind to Eyejot and we just found out today that we were mentioned in their June 1, 2008 issue. They did a story entitled 529 Computer Tips and, under the section about collaboration, mentioned Eyejot as one of their recommended solutions for video email.
We didn't know about the article until we got a message from a potential customer saying that they had seen the brief write-up and wanted to learn more about Eyejot. I guess we'd better start buying the newstand edition more often! Thanks PC Magazine!
Eyejot's CEO David Geller was invited to be a guest on The Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show hosted by John Iasiuolo on May 29. His conversation with John, who was very complimentary of the Eyejot platform, covered topics ranging from Eyejot's application-free design to video encoding to uploading video from digital cameras. David followed John's other guest, Brianna Reynaud, from Skype. You can listen to the interview here.
Uberpulse's editor-in-chief Jean-Baptiste Su recently interviewed Eyejot's CEO David Geller about the company and its direction. They discussed the current platform, its genesis and where it's going, including comments related to supporting the small to medium sized enterprise business market. You can read their post here, which includes an embedded YouTube video of the interview.
Eyejot was covered in the February issue of Fast Company magazine. It was in an article about video entitled Straight to Video written by Robert Scoble. You read it online here.
From the article:
Wondering if the sender is being sarcastic or not. Eyejot brings the eye roll and every other face-to-face nuance to personalized video emails.
