Jumpcut closes

The famous online video editor Jumpcut stops its work June 15, 2009. This subscriber service notifies the mailing list. In it, the management of the service connects the decision to close with the change of priorities of Yahoo !, which it belonged to since September 2006, Jumpcut. The newsletter also says that in the near future a special program will be released that allows users who have registered on the project to download their videos, which, as advised by service managers, are now best moved to Flickr.

Interestingly, this is the second closing of a major western Internet startup in the field of online video. In October 2008, a similar decision was made by the executives of video hosting Eyespot.com, after unsuccessful attempts to sell Yahoo! ..