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"YouTube add-ons are great in principle, but finding something unique that YouTube won't copy in a few months is a real challenge.  One idea that could work is cloning applications like Zingfu, RockYou or Slide.com, but for video.  So instead of importing photos from Imageshack and Photobucket, users could grab clips from YouTube or MySpace Video, add some bling and export the finished clip.  \nThat's exactly what Vidavee Grafitti aims to do. Launched today by the video sharing platform Vidavee, Grafitti lets you grab any YouTube video (we didn't get MySpace Video to work, but it should in theory), and add speech bubbles, effects, animations, emoticons and other bling.  A timeline dictates when these add-ons will appear, and editing is super-easy.  It's an excellent implementation of the idea.  Naturally, you can post your finished clip to hi5, Facebook and the rest.  Vidavee says that Graffiti is a bit of a buzz-generator at the moment, but it will soon become part of the core offering.\nBut what might be nice here is the ability to download a clip and re-upload it to a video sharing site.  Better still: allow users to re-upload clips direct.  I don't think YouTube has made this possible for developers yet, but I seem to remember that YouTube does allow mobile uploading via an email address, so perhaps a workaround could be devised.  Either way, I'd love to see a YouTube Ecosystem evolve, in the same way that the MySpace layouts sites have created a MySpace Economy.  \nWe picked up on Feeding the MySpace Beast about 6 months before it became the dominant trend for Silicon Valley startups, so I give it about 3 months before YouTube embraces a similar developer ecosystem.\n\nSelf-promotional plug: see Mashcodes for MySpace graphics, MySpace generators and other embeds."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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