Create custom, professional-looking slideshows from user-uploaded music and photos…

Animoto is a web application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects.

Their “patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design” drives the web app. They say the Cinematic A.I. analyzes users’ photos and music like an actual director and editor. For instance, to analyze music the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals are all taken into consideration.

Once completed, videos can be emailed, downloaded and embedded into other sites. The company says no two videos are ever the same.

Main competitors – Rockyou.com  and Slide.com

Slide  publishes of social entertainment applications / widgets. They offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they’ve already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased activity, advertisers benefit from an exuberant audience, and our users can share favorite videos, send virtual lattes or even throw sheep at each other.

More than 155 million people interact with their products every month. Their applications — like SuperPoke!, Top Friends and FunSpace — are consistently the most popular applications on their platforms, including the #1 and #2 most popular applications on Facebook (FunSpace and Top Friends). That makes Slide one of the largest Web properties in the world.

Launched  and founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin,.