net@night podcast for 8-28-09
This week’s net@night podcast was dedicated to the launch of Magma, an online video service that is fairly unique. Magma acts as a database for online videos that are scattered throughout cyberspace, and brings them all to a very convenient and easy to navigate page. The idea behind the project is to keep users updated with the most current and popular hit clips of the internet by using popular sites such as YouTube, Hulu, Dailymotion, and many more. It also keeps track of videos that are recently gaining popularity so that people can stay in the loop. It does this by monitoring these several websites. If a video is gaining popularity on one, it adds to the page, but it goes much further than that. It will search the other video engines to see if the video is gaining popularity anywhere else, thus trying to find the most popular video on the internet. This can be a very useful tool when people need just the right video clip for a presentation to make a forceful point, or just for a really good laugh. Magma also has another unique feature in that it features picks from the Magma staff themselves. As Amber MacArthur said on net@night, this is just like going to your neighborhood video store and asking what they suggest. Amber also makes another note that Magma has yet to implement a feature that she so desire. Clip Length. Though not something that is absolutely necessary, it would be a nice feature to make this website great. So to the creator Andrew Baron, great job on the site and congratulations on its future success.
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group 8 believes that magma will be a great addition the internet. It will cut out all the "hard labor" of searching for the right video. Which in turn will save the average internet user a great deal of time and effort. We also like the fact that there is a recommendation list that comes directly from the magma staff. This feature makes it easier to stay in the loop!
ReplyDeleteGroup 1 comments that Magma is a good "search engine" that helps you to easily search for videos as well as posts the current top videos. It makes the use of the Internet even more user friendly.
ReplyDeleteThis will be a huge benefit for searchers on the web for vidoes. Instead of going to several different search engines, a searcher can just go to the one-stop magma and search them all at the same time. Great idea and it is about time!
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