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Benjamin Higginbotham: I am Benjamin Higginbotham with technologyevangelist.com. We are here today with Peter Csathy from SightSpeed. Welcome Peter.

 
Peter Csathy: Thanks Ben, good to be here.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Today you are launching a new service, it sounds kind of cool. Tell me a little bit about that service?

 
Peter Csathy: Yes, we are pretty excited about it, because we have been in stealth mode about it. We are launching a new site, an active-interactive online video destination community site called Vlip, V-L-I-P, so www.vlip.com.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: That’s a lot of words, all on one. Can you describe exactly what the website is?

 
Peter Csathy: Sure, it is something that nobody has seen before and what it is primarily, it is a video destination community. What that means is that people can interact online through video. Something that they are not doing much of in some of these other video sites that we see. So, unlike the others the YouTube’s, Revver, Veoh and number of those other sites which are very cool sites. Here is a place where you can very easily be an active participant. So, you can click, record a video through your webcam, state your peace of mind about anything at all and then others can react to it, watch it – if that’s what they like and interact with the Vlipper, who creates that video.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, would you consider this like a Video Forum as it were, it is taking blogging or forums to the next level, instead of using text or podcasting, you are just using video to convey your message, instead?

Peter Csathy: Now, that’s exactly right. I think, that’s a great way to describe it Ben, is that it is a Video Message Board Forum as you said, so think of any topic that may be of interest to you. You can create, very easily create a Vlip which could be a single video or it could be thread of videos, because then it is very alive, it is a breathing sort of video clip and others can respond to it, give their frames of mind – their states of mind and then on and on and on, so it has a life of it is own.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: All right, so I create my Vlip, I have gone on line, I assume this is flash based…

 
Peter Csathy: It is.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: To do my video.

Peter Csathy: That’s right.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: And I create my Vlip and now what I do with it? Is it only in this website, can I do YouTube thing, where I embedded another websites or what happens from that point forward?

 
Peter Csathy: Now, that’s exactly right you have many choices as the Vlipper. So, the Vlipper can with a click of a button post it to vlip.com and then create their thread or they can send it off with a click of a button to anybody they want or thousands of people, if they want through a V-mail (Video email) or they can do it exactly what you said, which is embed the code of their Vlip, put it in their MySpace site or any other website and then they have, what’s very cool about it is, that they have that’s living, breathing video interactivity that’s in their profiles. For example, on MySpace, so they drop Vlip in the MySpace profile, now others can come watch that original Vlip and then react to it right there in that environment.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Now, that’s seems really cool for MySpace, but what about the more traditional bloggers, Technology Evangelist for example, we have got a blogging software, its either a  moveable type or it is wordpress, a natural extention of this would be where instead of regular standard comments, there will be some sort of Vlip API where I can tie directly into your service and someone can leave me a video comment, right on the website, is that going to be available, is that even on the drawing board, is that available in any version at all?

 
Peter Csathy: It is available day one.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: OK.

 
Peter Csathy: So, you can just copy and paste the code put it in your blog, I plan to do that in my own blog, it is very easy to do and that’s the key about what makes this really-really cool, it is very-very easy. There is no registration required, no download of any kind, people can come to the site, as long as they have a webcam, they can interact, create a Vlip and do all the things we have talked about, but if somebody doesn’t have a webcam, they can still watch all the Vlips that have been created and have an interesting experience, checking out a different kind of content that they can find on all the other video destination sites, which aren't real communities.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Not a lot of users know this, but we actually use SightSpeed to do our interactive video conversations, when we are doing one of these interviews, works great, we can do the one-to-one communication, you can even do one-to-few people, so up to four people in a conference call. So, what you are talking about with Vlip is more of one-to-many, kind of a little bit more of a soap box approach, but they can also be the guy in audience and kind of shout back at you. Is there going to be any integration between the one-to-one and the one-to-many product that you have got going on?

 
Peter Csathy: Absolutely, one of the things that you don’t see in the current video destination sites is real community elements where folks can interact in the way that you just describe with video and you can bet, that’s can be front in center with what we are doing at Vlip and so we are going to be …. we are launching this early beta and you will some of the initial iterations of how we bring in the SightSpeed live interactivity into the experience and that is some of the special sauce that we can bring to vlip.com that we will continue to differentiate it from anything else that’s out there.

Benjamin Higginbotham: Now, you said it was going into beta, this is an open beta that anyone can join or do you need to get a registration key from someone?

 
Peter Csathy: Now, we believe in open, so we are launching this wide, so check it out, tell me what you think?

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Awesome, so users can go to vlip.com as of today and start Vlipping for themselves.

 
Peter Csathy: That’s exactly right.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Right.

 
Peter Csathy: They can be part of Vlip experience themselves or they can watch, it is up to them, what they like to do.

 
Benjamin Higginbotham: Peter, thank you so much for your time.

 
Peter Csathy: Ben, appreciate it, thanks.