YourTrumanShow Launches Its VideoMap

YourTrumanShow launched a few months ago as a place to upload video diaries. It now offers VideoMap, a fun widget that lets you use video as a means for exploring and expanding your social network. See the screen shot below:



The widget creates a clear and easily navigable map of your social network with you at the center and your friends as nodes. Clicking on one of your friends will extend a map of their friends, and so on. VideoMap scrapes the videos that your friends (and their friends) have uploaded, and when you click on any of these people, you can browse through their videos and play them without leaving the widget.

In an alternative mode, seen in the screenshot above, the videos themselves become the nodes. Again, you start at the center but it’s your uploaded videos that surround you. Now, when you click on a video, the widget displays other VideoMap users that have uploaded the same video. Clicking on these people will let you explore their videos, instead of their friends. It’s an innovative way to find others who share your interests and discover new content at the same time.