The UK based site BlinkBox lets you share your passion for all things videos with all your best mates. All users get a BlinkBox, which acts essentially, as a profile/media storage page. From within your BlinkBox you can add friends, edit your profile info, and send Blinks. Blinks are personalized video clips. Here's how it works: you take a clip from the site, add your own text message to it and then send it off to a buddy or post it to your blog. BlinkBox features a good selection of TV shows and movies which can be downloaded for rental or purchase. Once your friends receive your Blink they too can rent or buy the entire video. Blinks themselves are limited to only sixty seconds, but your message appears right in the clip, making it appear as if you edited it all by yourself. To share a Blink you'll need to have already created one yourself, and it is limited to site members.
"At blinkBox you can watch, buy, and rent Movies and TV shows.
Some things that make us special are:
• We have some fantastic stuff from BIG and small producers alike, and
• Blinks, the ability to clip your favourite part, personalise it with text, and use it as you wish."
Some things that make us special are:
• We have some fantastic stuff from BIG and small producers alike, and
• Blinks, the ability to clip your favourite part, personalise it with text, and use it as you wish."
BlinkBox's blinks invoke Youtube and Facebook, however, they're actually a clever tool to promote the site's content. Users will be able to share their fav video clips with embedded messages which look better than the attached comments you'll find on other sites. The site's got a clean, easy to use interface and it's latched onto a popular pastime—video sharing.
The site needs to expand its video sharing functionality. Blinks should be able to be shared by non members in order to increase the site's audience. A widget function would be useful.
Visit website:
http://www.blinkbox.com
