Not quite as slick as the IKEA sequence from the movie Fight Club but it shows we’re getting there. Overlay.tv is a new start-up with a great infomercial viral movie (see below), that enables users to overlay content on top of video. This content can be just for fun and games or it can actually link to other pages – ideal for one-click purchase of some shoes in the new Sex and the City film!
OK, so it’s a few steps from movies as currently it only enables video streams from popular video sharing sites like YouTube, MySpace TV, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and College Humor but that’s pretty impressive to start with (although similar to Ooyala).
Nice, but what about the retailers? Well, they’ve already signed up over 600 including Amazon, iTunes and Wal-Mart. Add in the fact it works in both IE and FireFox (sorry no Safari, Apple peeps) and that users can even turn off overlays means this is one exciting piece of tech. If only it was running on the M&S site that we mentioned a few days ago…
Valentine’s is not just in the real world you know, the wafty fragrance of love and romance affects those online too. Here are a collection of Valentine’s themed logos from around the web today:
Google’s is about getting older and wondering off in to the sunset… kind of like they have done with Search Marketing.
Yahoo! logo features sexy little pink Yahoo! character and wide-eyed blue character (who just found out how much it costs to get Yahoo! into bed… I think $44bn was the last offer she TURNED DOWN!)
this is from the ’sweethearts’ at Pirate Bay who think everyone should be able to share everything without consequence… definitely a lover who doesn’t come with protection!
AOL in true AOL style, manage to keep it quite corporate.
