We’re very excited to have been named one of Time’s 50 Coolest Websites for 2006.

Here’s a link to the story: Time’s 50 Coolest Websites 2006

“You could burn multiple DVDs and drop them in the mail — or you could save yourself the trouble and just upload your masterpiece to Jumpcut.com, add music and visual effects using the site’s own editing tools, and then email everybody the link. Give your friends access to your stuff and they can remix it or blend it with their own footage of the same event (What’s a little video mashing among friends?).”

In other news, sources say that one of our engineers Ashot is in the running for Time’s Man of the Year, but only if he checks his code in consistently for the rest of 2006.

Jumpcut received a great review in the New York Times today.

“Their shared objective, the founders of the sites say, is to reduce the complexity of video editing and to reduce the cost to zero.”

The article begins by highlighting a very entertaining music video for the surreal folk song “I Got a Bunny,” written and performed by Juanito Moore.

“The video was assembled, not in a traditional cutting room or with PC-based editing software, but entirely on the Web, using an online service called Jumpcut.”

Below is the result. I give you “I Got a Bunny”