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Mixin.com
Mixin.com is a social and personalized video-sharing technology launched by Qlipso, an Israeli-American technology company based in Santa Monica, California, that builds and operates multi-user content-sharing platforms for Flash-based media. The Mixin application allows users to search for and discover videos, share them with friends, and insert comments within the videos. Mixin allows users to mix their individual comments into online videos and share the customized results with friends on their social graph through sites such as Facebook.

Mixin aggregates video content from across the Internet and employs the user’s social graph as a guide. Upon selecting a video, the Mixin video player allows the user to leave on-screen comments and animated emoticons for friends and followers. Connecting Mixin to your Facebook account allows users to view videos and clips watched by friends. Users can control who sees which videos they have viewed. The video portal introduces users to other Mixin community members with similar video tastes, but also gives users the option to view only videos created by friends.

Mixin.com has been in private beta since February 2012. It currently has approximately 200,000 users. Its Chief Executive Officer is Jon Goldman. The application is accessible on all Internet browsers with dedicated mobile applications in development.

Features
Mixin users sign-in using their Facebook account. Mixin then connects to the user's social feed and pulls all content the user's friends have watched and posted about. Each video presents social information, including which friends have watched the content, the popularity of the content, and the total views, comments, and likes. Mixin pulls in popular video from video blogs and curators on the web, including devour.com, laughingsquid.com, reddit.com, TMZ, and popular YouTube channels with current development working on a generic RSS-based scraping tool to broaden content feed. Mixin aggregates all content on the user's Facebook news feed allowing the user to see all the videos watched and posted about by friends.

When signed in, the Mixin mosaic displays videos that aim to match the user’s interests. Users can add YouTube videos to Mixin by cutting and pasting the video's URL into the Mixin "Post a Video" box. Users can search videos in the Mixin database, as well as libraries of YouTube and Veoh.com. The Mixin player allows users to comment on screen while watching videos, as well as select animoticons to display on screen. If users cannot find the right emoticon in the Mixin library, they can upload a photo and create their own animoticons. Mixin uses Facebook Connect and the Facebook Open Graph API.

Mixin users can follow other users. Users automatically follow all Facebook friends in the Mixin network, and can also choose to follow Mixin users not yet in their social graph. Mixin users have profiles that show all their activity on Mixin including videos watched, videos commented on, current followers and current users being followed.

Company History
Mixin.com was initially a social calendaring service launched in 2008 by a Swiss startup. The site was taken over by Qlipso, Inc., which is backed by Jerusalem Venture Partners, an international venture capital firm specializing in investments in startup companies. The new social video application was released from stealth mode in February 2012. Mixin's proprietary technology was developed in Jerusalem, Israel. On May 22, 2012, Mixin announced its initial slate of distribution partners, which included Viumbe and [http://www.anyclip.com/ AnyClip.