Benjamin Berube of D2Soft Technologies presented nimbb, a fast and easy webcam video recorder for websites at the Oct 20th SFNewTech event. The idea for nimbb was born when Benjamin was working on a web project that needed to capture video using a webcam. He quickly found out that there was no easy solution to do this. So he started working on a video widget that he could reuse in other projects, and that’s how nimbb was created.
nimbb is a video recording service for websites. Benjamin said that there were already big names like McGraw-Hill, BBC, Cirque du Soleil, WPP and webs.com using the nimbb service. The French Government also started using it recently to get video feedback from users.
Benjamin then proceeded to show a demo of recording video from his laptop webcam by visiting nimbb.com and clicking the record button. He said how nimbb is all about simplicity with only 2 buttons (record and save). Actually it is 3 buttons (there is a play button in the middle, to review the video you just recorded) but you get the point.
Once you record the video, you can click play to review it and re-record if necessary. When you are satisfied with the recording, you can click the save button. At that point, you will get a video url (web address) to share with others.. You can also get video embed codes to post the video to a blog or on other websites. This is all for the individual users.
On top of this, nimbb has a commercial API (application programming interface) that large corporations and website owners can tap into, to integrate the nimbb player as well as the nimbb web service into their website or online service.
Benjamin also showed everyone a live example of a website using the nimbb player and recorder on their website via the API feature and webservice subscription model.
Pricing?
The first 30 seconds of video recording on nimbb are free. But the videos get deleted after a month. Cost for the paid service is based on a subscription plan. The current rates are listed on nimbb.com in the pricing / subscriptions page.
Company Info and Links
Company: D2Soft Technologies Inc.
Company Twitter: @d2soft
Founder: Benjamin Berube
Founder Bio: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/benjaminberube
Founder Blog: http://blog.d2soft.com
Product: nimbb webcam video recorder
Product Contact: http://nimbb.com/Help/
Product Twitter : @nimbb
Business, Investor Contact: benjamin @ d2soft.com