I’m wondering where this ‘bolting on’ of social networking to ‘special interest’ is going?

There was an article here…

 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/01/flixster-growing-like-a-weed/

 

On a social network that uses film to draw
users onto the site.

 

There is also an interesting article here…

http://gigaom.com/2007/02/05/are-social-networks-just-a-feature/#more-8085

 

About building a ‘social network’ around
causal games.

 

I’ve noticed that one of the biggest groups
on Vox is the photographers.
Is this direction the one that Vox hopes to
move in with its association with media sites such as iFilm?

I wish the email was had a few more features, such as…

1. I’d like to send an email item to every
   member of a group, or to all my neighbours.
2. Saving an email item as a draft newsletter
   that I could distribute to new members of a group.
3. I’d like my Voxwatch page emailed to me
   once a day.
4. I’d like an email notification of items
   posted into groups that I am a member of.

 

Specking of Groups. I’d like the group Icon
to be a picture randomly pulled from within the Groups store of posted images.

I’ve posted on this page some examples of Voeh Channels and ‘embeds.’

The channels are interesting, and look to be highly configurable, if one understands HTML, which I don’t, so I haven’t played around with the formatting much (Too busy paying the mortgage and building content.)
Feel free to explore Veoh and post your findings back here.

The site is nice and clean looking,
I like the multi posting
The video quality is great and they will auto build and iPod compatible streams (which I haven’t tested cause I don’t have an iPod.)

Veoh seems to be putting a lot of effort into getting hold of costumers, and content.

Veoh

Splashcast

I thought I’d highlight a couple of Vox Groups that I’d found,

and table them for your consideration…

lonelyplaneteurope

travelingfoodies

I require greater granularity!

Hiya folks,

There are now two
little photography groups specialising in eye candy from cemeteries and cloud
chasing…

cloudporn

deadpersonsstoragefacility

And one lonely little user group dedicated to the Pentax W10

pentaxw10

Still Splashcasting...

I've been building a channel on Splashcast called Adventure Spang.
I started out with some clips from my holiday.
Last night I inserted some clips that I found on YouTube that suit my 'adventure' theme.
Now I have two shows in the channel and I've inserted some small title id's.

Splashcast reckon there’ve come up with some interesting monetisation schemes.
As Vox doesn’t allow 'embeds' I've knocked up some screen snapshots.

Spashcast snapshots

Note:

1. The clean looking player
2. The menu system for selecting shows within a channel.
3. The overlay graphics giving credits to YouTube (I reckon Splashcast is going to make greater use of those overlays.)
4. There is an example of the text clip which is really basic currently.
5. Splashcast players can be a verity of sizes all featuring the same content.

The Splashcast Experience

It's been a couple of days, and my Splashcast video embed has started to register eyeballs.

Interesting feature of Splashcast is that the server tracks the city and country in which the eyeball was living.

There is a little map that appears with pushpin dots.

Things I like:

Amazing control over player size. As the player is separated from the
channels, it's possible to retarget your content to a verity of
situations such as a tiny thumbnail for a MySpace profile, or a huge TV
type display (that said YouTube has possibly the worst codec quality
and this is the only useful option for content.)

It’s really easy to construct a channel and feed media through it

Things I don't like:

The Console where 'shows' and channels are shuffled is slow and it's drawn in a tiny Flash based window.

Splashcast doesn’t accept AVI uploads to their servers so DivX is cut out.

Current progress is displayed here...

splashcastvideos2