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cool, what did you do for them? can you email me neil at reelsurfer.com

love to learn what these sites were looking for - we are building a super embed and want it to kick ass

Putting the video after the 'more' break really does help significantly. We did that on our company blog.

We are making a super video embed to help drive traffic to blogs / websites. Would you be interested in trying it out?

More content related, but love to pick your brain about SEO - can you shoot me an email neil at reelsurfer.com. What are you doing now?

Agreed, Tufte is a powerhouse: http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/I...

Can I send you an email? Or can you contact me neil at reelsurfer.com

We are trying to gauge whether bloggers that embed videos in their blog care about how much SEO bump they get from those videos

I've learned never to take anything personally. Just the fact that you took the time to give me feedback is really generous of you.

Definitely trying to experiment with different ways to generate engagement on this blog. In fact I am comparing it to how our company blog functions as well. That can be a post for a later date :).

Thanks and take care. Happy thanksgiving.

Thanks for the helpful feedback. I guess my goal was to source topics that I should cover for sure. But I agree, the point of any blog is to share MY insights and observations.

Love this idea, perhaps we can chat and collaborate on it

Would love to hear ideas that would be of interest to you

Thanks! Do regular youtube videos play for you?

Hello HN, we would love your feedback / any glitches you might see on different devices

can you shoot me an email neil at reelsurfer.com

very cool, are you working on this alone? Perhaps you could benefit from our APIs?

Thanks! We are working on the transitions - we are somewhat at the mercy of connections and the video provider.

We are deciding the best way to add music. Love to see any lists you can make!

Thanks for the helpful message, will answer in order:

1. The clips are short because the user who clipped them decided to make them that short. We would love to see your favorite clips (and they can be longer than a few seconds)

2. We are debating putting pauses between the clips, it really depends what kind of video it is. The video title is viewable upon hover - perhaps we should put it at the top of the page?

3. Any designers that you know well?

4. Thanks! we would love to see you make a best of list as well!

At this point if the video has its embed functionality disabled there is no way to clip it. Trying to figure out workarounds now

why don't you cut the clip using ReelSurfer and we can add it to the mashup?

any particular clip / quote you like?

This was made by one of our users, we would love to see what clips / advice the HN community thinks is missing

they sure do

touche, thanks for the comments

That's the wrong way to look at it. These videos have great sound bites, but our point is that they are lost inside of a long video. We think this contest will help bring those moments to life!

There is a 30 second limit on the clips, but the reels can be as long as you want. Are you going to enter the contest?

ReelSurfer lets you cut short clips from any video on the web and string them together into reels. We do not let anyone upload videos.

For the reel contest itself, the reward is a meeting with an investor.

awesome, make a clip and send it to us!

Awesome, you can embed clips directly into blogs or tumblr so make sure to send me a link so I can check it out - sounds funny.

We actually used to sell this as a service so there are some valuable pieces... stay tuned :)

That is part of the mission, giving the average person the power to remix and create.