GPS, Power Of Place and TV Integration
How’s that for a boring headline? Why didn’t I just say, “Look at this”! Mmm because I’m pedantic, or because you’ve heard that before, or because I think that the YouTubes of the world can fill a need and give themselves a
completely new dimension with services like this:
From their “About Page”: Our effort is focused on developing an aggregation platform that ties into video-sharing platforms like Youtube.com, extends their services by letting anyone georeference and sort video clips in news categories, and offers multiple convenient ways to subscribe to and watch these custom channels (e.g. “Politics in Berlin, Germanyâ€).
I don’t know about you, but when I go to something like YouTube … most often because someone has pointed me to a video the liked there, I normally watch one video and then leave in confusion … YouTube spits a whole list of supposedly related choice all over the screen … sorry to have to say this, YouTube but the other day my 15 month old nephew was sick and spewed sour milk all over the living room, my wife and everyone within 10 feet and I thought of your home page layout … not that I don’t like it, mind you
… anyway they litter your field of view with “best guess” subjects you might want to watch next but one factor they never consider in trying to choose a related subject is where the original came from.
I also like the idea of building localized news communities. In some countries you don’t get a lot of local news because the totalitarian government and the rich broadcast channel owners are “good buds” and brand any news that might seem anti-establishment as terrorist-related, or slap a classified label on it if it might make a “Bush” look like a “Shrub”.
And countries other than the US have their issues too.
