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My Visit To Jib Jab
Twitter's starting to do some interesting work for me. The guys from Jib Jab saw on my blog yesterday morning that I was in Venice, California. They emailed me and invited me over to visit their offices. Jessica wanted to go to Santa Monica to hang out with her friends for an hour so I dropped her off and went over to Jib Jab.
Jib Jab is one of those companies that's been focused on web entertainment since the first bubble and survived. I'd put Heavy.com and a few others in that category. It's not a large group and those that survived did it with a combination of chutzpah and great content.
Everyone's familiar with This Land and probably a bunch more of Jib Jab's viral videos. They also have their own user generated funny video service called Jokebox.
We talked about how they are moving from a one way "broadcast" model which got them through the lean years to a "DoTube" model where everyone can participate in a Jib Jab video. They've got some neat ideas which I won't blog about, but you'll see roll out in the next several months.
Here's their latest, called What We Call The News.
Comments (7) | Posted April 7, 2007 in Venture Capital and Technology
Comments
Haha that was great. Beats watching news clips any day. :)
High quality video too....love it.
Posted by: Andy Swan | Apr 7, 2007 10:52:07 AM
hahahaha that was hilarious! always gotta find the comedy in the tragedy.
Posted by: kid mercury | Apr 7, 2007 12:12:45 PM
Thanks for stopping by Fred. We're avid readers of your blog here at JibJab and it was a pleasure to meet you!
Posted by: gregg | Apr 7, 2007 1:49:48 PM
best things about the West Coast... Fry's, and In'n'Out Burger, animal style... now those are some phenomenal businesses...
Posted by: druce | Apr 7, 2007 4:04:15 PM
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Posted by: web tasarım | Apr 8, 2007 4:25:43 AM
I think a big reason why they have survived is that they are talented.
Posted by: jackson | Apr 8, 2007 1:52:47 PM
sure: very slick, extremely pro... but so mainstream, middle of the road, safe. Can't these guys take a risk and go just a little bit out on the edge?
Call me left-leaning, but I'd love JibJab a lot more if they were a little more SNL and a little less Beach Blanket Babylon.
Posted by: Ken Berger | Apr 8, 2007 5:06:29 PM
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