Lifecasting startup Your Truman Show will present a Video Map Widget at DEMO today, bringing their life story focused video product to social networking sites.
VideoMap can be placed and accessed by anyone using Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, YourTrumanShow or other sites. Its selling point 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. VideoMap let’s you go from topic to topic and from life to life.”
See our previous coverage here. Aside from the clever name, Your Truman Show is trying to bring the traditional idea of a blog as an online journal to the lifecasting field. The chronological time line via the “V-Link” interface provides something different in an increasingly competitive vertical.
*tumble weed*
let’s look at the demo
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
“Clever name” Huh? Since when is the obvious and borderline cliche considered clever? People writing about the reality TV & vidcast genres have been calling it “Truman”-esque for years now.
But worse than that, it’s a C & D letter away from a lawsuit (that is, unless they secured permission to use The Truman Show name from the movie studio of said film, in which case, that was a smart move).
Sorry to be a party pooper, but I just couldn’t let that one slide.
Yes the name is secured and we do indeed have permission to use it. We are all very excited about VideoMap! I hope to see your stories on yourtrumanshow.com
~ Cara
Yes the name is secured and we do indeed have permission to use it. We are all very excited about VideoMap! Please check us out!!
~ Cara
Here’s the demo clip:
http://link.bri...bctid1205096345