Vidavee Graffiti

Giving users video customization tools
Plus: Tila Tequila: musician

The ability to customize and personalize one’s blog, IM away message, and even online photo collections has long since been heralded as a web trend, and this power of manipulaton is now commonplace and expected. There are many tools on the Web that give users the power to alter, edit and mash together media to create something entirely new. Similar to how Bubbleshare lets one add music and text bubbles to photos and how Jumpcut provides basic editing tools for uploaded videos, avid YouTube watchers can customize videos much as they would personalize their Myspace profiles.

One such source of YouTube add-ons, Vidavee Graffiti allows users to add effects, animations, graphics, and text onto any video. To use this “legal form of artful vandalism,” the effects are dragged onto the video clip and the start and end time can be selected in a timeline. Once the video is customized, a new embedded tag/code is generated and can be posted and shared elsewhere on the Web. We do not see this demand for artistic freedom waning any time soon, and as more tools will be made available to video sharing sites, we could see a new wave of “Pop-Up Video.”

And by the way:
MySpace celebritiy Tila Tequila’s first single “I Love U” was released on iTunes today. Stay tuned to see how her cyberfame translates to the real world.