These are the ideas that make us tick, the ideas that drive us, and the goals we have for freescreencast.com:

  • Freedom: We believe in the generalized concept that information wants to be free. We believe in the potential of open source. We also believe in competition based on freedom, not lock-in.
  • Available to everyone: Screencasting is a powerful medium for a message. We believe in the potential of screencasting. Screencasting should be available to the masses, for free.
  • Sharing: We will provide three methods of sharing:
    1. Make your screencast hosted and public on freescreencast.com, and it can also be embedded on any other website, including your own. Right now, this can be done.
    2. Make your screencast hosted and private on freescreencast.com. You’ll be able to send people an obfuscated url to view the screencast (just like Jing operates right now).
    3. Make your screencast hosted and private on freescreencast.com, and pay a small fee. You can share the screencast via an obfuscated url or host it in your own site.

    The primary thing to take away from that list is this: if you share your screencast with the world, allow the information to be ‘free’, then we’ll host it for you forever, for free.

  • Library of knowledge: We are creating a vast library of deep knowledge. The screencasts on mathematics serve as a great example of deep content that will stay relevant and meaningful.
  • Functionality: We compete on capabilities. Our clients will use freescreencast.com because it is the best product to meet their needs.
  • Community: We want to integrate with services, such as Moodle to provide enhanced capabilities while providing the same sense of freedom.