Tuesday, November 20, 2012

VYou allows Video Responses to Tweets

VYou is sort of a video-based Quora, where users post questions and answers via video. Now, they are allowing users to respond to tweets via video. The video responses are then tweeted out to all of the user's twitter followers. While this kind of functionality should certainly be desired by a large number of people, it also reinforces a common theme by most new-age websites/applications: integrate with popular third-party APIs to increase your member base.

Oftentimes, the increase in member base created by integrating with third party sites ends up being short-term, but if you can add real value to the user's experience via the integration, then all three parties (the integrating application, the integrated application, and most importantly, the user).

Read the orignal TechCrunch Article

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