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Zync is a plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger, first developed as a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Zync lets you watch videos with your friends, in sync and in real time. Instead of just IMing URLs and waiting for your friends to watch, Zync allows you to chat about a video (pausing, jumping back, and watching simultaneously with a friend). Both videos stay in sync.

Zync works with most all Yahoo!, YouTube, and Google videos. Sweet. :).

Who built it

• Yiming Liu
• David A. Shamma
• Jeannie Yang

What people are saying

ABC23 Talks To Yahoo About New Web 2.0 Products, ABCTV23 (video)
"Nick Belardes of ABC23 was at the Wired Nextfest in Los Angeles, and spoke with Cynthia Johanson of Yahoo about new products."

Share Videos In Sync With Zync, Startup Meme, Bilal Hameed
"Yahoo Research Berkeley, has launched a really handy plug in for Yahoo Messenger, Zync. Zync lets you share videos with your friends without waiting for them to see it, or worrying if it loaded properly, where is he now and so on."

Plug-in to easy video sharing, Yahoo! Messenger Blog, Sarah Bacon
"The best part about Zync is that when the video is playing, you and your friend see the exact same thing at the same time. This makes it much easier to talk about the video, either over IM or during a voice call."

Zync, una nueva forma de compartir videos a través de Yahoo Messenger , techtear.com, Rafael Piñero
"Zync permite a los usuarios conversar sobre el vídeo en cuestión (pausarlo, volver atrás, en definitiva, ver el vídeo como si estuvieses realmente junto a tu amigo). Cualquiera de los dos puedes tomar el control del vídeo, y zync se encarga de sincronizarlos."

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