New Mozilla tool lets anyone create and hack interactive videos

November 15, 2012

Earlier this year Mozilla announced its Webmaker effort aimed at giving everyday users DIY skills for the Web, and recently it rolled out a key piece of that initiative. Launched on Sunday at the MozFest event in London, Popcorn Maker 1.0 is a free Web app that's designed to make it easy to enhance, remix, and share Web video. Working via a simple drag-and-drop interface, users can add live content to any video--including photos, maps, links, social media feeds, and more--all from the comfort of their own browser. The result, according to Mozilla, is “a new way to tell stories on the Web,” with videos that are rich in both context and links. “Until now, video on the Web has been stuck inside a little black box,” explained Mozilla’s Brett Gaylor, director of the Popcorn initiative, in the app's official announcement. “Popcorn Maker changes that, making video work like the rest of the Web: hackable, linkable, remixable, and connected to the world around it.” To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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