Your Truman Show launches Wednesday with a product dedicated to publishing, rating and reviewing personal video stories.
The service is a combination of personal blogging, user-generated video and social networking, delivering users an intuitive interface than enables them to catalog their lives.
The “V-link interface” with in Your Truman Show visually connects related storylines making it easy for users to find and follow stories as they develop over time. Usual user rating systems are also provided with higher rating videos gaining preference at key navigation points.
My first question naturally was in relation to the name. Warner Bros didn’t renew their rights to exclusive use of The Truman Show, so now it makes up two thirds of a Web 2.0 startup.
The platform feels a little bit like YouTube meets blogging. Yes, it is another video hosting platform ala YouTube but the layout is different. The focus is very much on blogging personal stories; with features include chronological submissions through to story books.
The team behind Your Truman Show is aiming to extend life-on-camera into a network of “tomorrow’s online reality stars, migrating user-generated content from single videos to multi-episode series”. I have absolutely no idea whether they are actually going to achieve this, but it’s a well crafted, niche video hosting site that certainly won’t fail due to a lack of good presentation and coding.
i like the interface
Duncan if you are looking for an excellent tool to share a collection of events (not only for bloggers), have a look at:
http://www.busi...a-cool-startup/
Hmmm… most people live pretty boring lives, so who else other then “maybe” family members want to review it? I think we all think we are far more influential and important then we really are. As for me, I prefer to concentrate on MY life instead of watching somebody else live theirs.
Jon
I’m not a big fan of ideas being regurgitated and repackaged as often as it’s been seen in internet video, but I think this has a shot because people will identify/recognize the name and concept – half the battle in building and marketing a site. Telling your story isnt a new idea – web cams have been making that possible for a long time. But, as video camcorders become more accessible (the flip is $150 – I made the video on my blog today with it), and online editing tools become more available and easy to use, I think there’ll be a little spike in people taping their lives and so dedicated sites like this could do alright.
How about we find -today’s- internet reality stars. They don’t exist. I’m the only one I know in real life who has heard of justin.tv or any of the others.
Man, I’ve been thinking more and more about starting a “View outside the valley” blog, because you guys are just too damned ate up to think outside the echo chamber.
Worst. Name. Ever.
@ rick, I think that would be awesome. Alot of the bloggers who aren’t in SV just roll with the news that the blogs that are in SV run. Not that I don’t like the news, but I wish there was a broader view of it at times, too. Especially european, Indian, Israeli and russian tech developments.
@patricia yeah I’d kind of like to, I see these really great usage patterns that I think are actually more representative of the general public’s browsing habits than what many a valley exec has idealized.
I have a gal at work who probably makes google 50 bucks per day because she browses almost exclusively by hopping from adsense to adsense. I know a few older folks who use the address bar to search. I still don’t have a real life friend who uses twitter though that will probably happen soon.
The funny thing is a majority of these folks are actually connected into the larger trends: viewing videos on youtube, myspace/fb accounts(though I’m actually familiar with the demographic who haven’t yet migrated), and so on.
The only problem is I would probably have to be caustic at times in order to maintain integrity and I’d rather not make an enemy of half of the valley as I’ll probably be out there soon. All the same, many many folks need a dose of reality.
I think if we / look at the YouTube model for inspiration
– it is like looking at the lottery as a paycheck –
- This company is based on hosting / bandwidth / which will quickly become too expensive for any advertising to support.
- Rbowles
I presume they’ve bought the rights to the name “Truman Show”; surely it’s copyright of the film company that popularised the term?
Wow, Techcrunch. You guys are quickly losing credibility and more and more wasting my time.
Actually, it is Paramount and not Warner that let the TM go, and as far as the (c), this is a website and not a motion picture.