Making time to jam on internal projects is a bit of an elusive luxury here at Electric Pulp. We could spend weeks just registering domain names for our web schemes, but we rarely get them off the whiteboard and onto the Internetâ„¢.
Last week we rolled out *one such occasion,* though, in partnership with our friends at Undercurrent.
The new site is called Viral or Spiral, and it goes like this: community members and vagrants submit videos to be voted on. Voting comes in the form of popularity predictions, i.e., how many times a video is expected to be viewed in 90 days. Predictions are aggregated and compared against actual video performance.
We’re flattering commandshift3 and digg for sure with the new site, and we definitely took some liberty with the YouTube API. It’s for the kids, though. Especially if those kids are looking for early feedback on media from a subset of contributors with proven accuracy for predicting media popularity.
Those kids need help the most.
A website of epic porportions…
Seems like a great idea no one has tried yet. I like it!
Doug - September 18, 2008
With the ability to leave comments on each video it could be a popular site. Although I don’t think it will rival any of the actual hosting sites, eg. youtube, it would still be fun. Definite possibilities for advertising income. Adsense, etc.
RJD - September 18, 2008
[...] collaborated with Undercurrent on another site called Viral or Spiral a while back. After a few months watching it host only the traffic we actively pushed to it, we [...]
Idea graveyard | Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 - May 12, 2009