Aggre-curated TV →
In the past few weeks, I stumbled upon three approaches regarding aggregation and curation of video content that I found interesting.
bitly.tv ("What the world is watching now") is the most popular example, I guess. Developed in the labs of link shortening shooting star bit.ly, it pulls all videos of shortened links pointing to video content and therefore gives you quite a good feeling of what's hot (or at least being watched) at the moment. They provide a very clean and simple interface with just a grid of videos and a slider to select something between "now" and "7 days ago". Reconstruct the video Zeitgeist of the past week with just a few clicks.
Tweetz TV does similar things, but instead of aggregating videos of millions of unknown people, it just pulls moving image links from your personal Twitter timeline ("My TV"). If there's not enough or too boring video content among the people you follow, you can always switch to "Public TV" mode for a much broader offering.
But the one I found the most compelling is a Boxee app, developed by students of NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Trend Lines “dynamically curates online video content based on current, socially-driven trends". In the demonstration video below, they analyze Google Trends, Twitter Trends and The New York Times to extract relevant video content:
