Ghoulish Delight
11-30-2009, 05:37 PM
Been playing around with a new site called Mag.ma (http://mag.ma). It's being developed by the folks that created Rocketboom (http://www.rocketboom.com).
The concept is for it to be a centralized portal to the various video content websites around the web. They purport that their model, whereby people link videos from all the various sites (youtube, vimeo, collegehumor, hulu, dailymotion, digg, reddit, etc. etc.) gives a snapshot of what's popular, and what's about to become popular.
There are a few different entry points for viewing. You can see their main page which shows the top handful of videos from each of the sites they track. You can see an expanded set of top videos from any individual site. Or you can follow other users, twitter style, and see what they're watching. Conversely, you can add videos to your own "dashboard" so people following you can see what you're watching. Your dashboard shows you the latest stuff that people you're following have added.
They do a much better job of explaining it themselves in this video (http://mag.ma/211919).
My "channel" is here (http://mag.ma/swankgd) if anyone wants to play around and follow me.
I'm curious to see where this goes. I kinda like it as a catch-all, even though right now it seems mostly populated with older stuff that new users are populating it with (you'll probably see a few things that were in youtubery that I spotted on mag.ma and liked). But I definitely see myself checking this daily for new content to keep me entertained.
The concept is for it to be a centralized portal to the various video content websites around the web. They purport that their model, whereby people link videos from all the various sites (youtube, vimeo, collegehumor, hulu, dailymotion, digg, reddit, etc. etc.) gives a snapshot of what's popular, and what's about to become popular.
There are a few different entry points for viewing. You can see their main page which shows the top handful of videos from each of the sites they track. You can see an expanded set of top videos from any individual site. Or you can follow other users, twitter style, and see what they're watching. Conversely, you can add videos to your own "dashboard" so people following you can see what you're watching. Your dashboard shows you the latest stuff that people you're following have added.
They do a much better job of explaining it themselves in this video (http://mag.ma/211919).
My "channel" is here (http://mag.ma/swankgd) if anyone wants to play around and follow me.
I'm curious to see where this goes. I kinda like it as a catch-all, even though right now it seems mostly populated with older stuff that new users are populating it with (you'll probably see a few things that were in youtubery that I spotted on mag.ma and liked). But I definitely see myself checking this daily for new content to keep me entertained.