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19 02 2008

When convergence goes a bit nutty

Posted by: Ron in Remix culture, podcasting, podcasts, video

Okay, am I missing something here? Help me.

What’s the value of a website that shows “the most popular and best videos” on YouTube? And why do you need a site to do this for you when YouTube allows you to sort by popularity?

I see there’s also a ‘Best of YouTube’ podcast in the iTunes Store.

Umm…hmm.

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One Response to “When convergence goes a bit nutty”

1.   doug Says:
   April 25th, 2008 at 8:41 am

   Hey Ron,

   I think you’re right about “Best of YouTube” - it is “a bit nutty” in that the interface, at first glance at least, offers significantly less than YouTube itself.

   I do like one idea behind it, though: taking a big set of information that someone else has put together, and re-visualizing it.

   A better example of this, I think, is something like del.icio.us director, which takes your del.icio.us bookmarks, and gives you a whole new way to see, browse, and interact with them.

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