Your Truman Show, Inc. introduced the VideoMap Widget, which allows online video producers and fans to share content across popular social networks wherever it resides on the Internet, from inside the embeddable widget.
VideoMap can be placed and accessed by anyone on the Internet, in Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, YourTrumanShow or any other site. Its unique, key component is a graphical video relationship map, which, according to YourTrumanShow’s Founder & Chairman Arturo Artom, “Lets you see who links to you and who you link to as well as the video content you have both collected and may wish to share.â€
VideoMap lets users open the widget and see themselves in the center of the map, then they can opt from two views. In the first, they are the hub and can see their connections to friends across the web. In a tray below them, they see their own collection of clips from anywhere on the Internet. When the user clicks on a friend, that friend’s collection appears in the tray. In the second view users are still in the center of the map. This time, however, they see the collections of their friends and the corresponding connections to those collections. When they select a clip that interests them, they then see its owner in the tray below.
VideoMap also allows users to search, share and collect videos by topic and by who has viewed a particular video. A sidebar appears which makes suggestions based on the relevant topics followed. This opens the door to one of the company’s monetization strategy. For example, if someone follows soccer videos, the special offers for soccer equipment, or tickets to a game will be served up.
Originally posted on September 25, 2007 @ 6:40 pm