I like the idea in principle... but doesn't it mean people will know what there is in your house to steal, when they wanna come in at night and take your junk?

It's kind of the reverse of an insurance video-inventory. So long as people are directed to make their videos carefully, it could work!

Ian, exactly. it's like cataloging the contents of your house for insurance purposes but then chopping up that footage and assigning prices/descriptions to the items. there are neat ways to do this embedded in the video and provided there was a flv encoder setup on the server, the media storage disk space requirements would be minimal.

This is one of those ideas where it might make more sense to piggyback an existing insurance company's efforts to have archives of home contents. It woudl be involved an have all kinds of privacy hurdles but basically if you can jumpstart it with an existing repository of video and convince their users to go in and desginate items they woudl be wiling to sell, you'd have a useful service to the shopper out of the gate on day 1.

thanks for the input

sean

I suppose they called that eBay.

This could be a cool mashup with viddler.com. You could tag the timecode of the video to make it easier for people to participate.

"I suppose they called that eBay."
Craigslist is the one to beat. People hold all types of garage sales with photos. I have not seen videos there, but I think they are the current leader and will not be easily topped.