I'm stoked ... the much hyped and sometimes misunderstood Ourmedia.org finally opened (on 21/3/05):

Create. Share. Get noticed. That's what Ourmedia is about.

Ourmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. We'll host your media forever — for free.

Video blogs, photo albums, home movies, podcasting, digital art, documentary journalism, home-brew political ads, music videos, audio interviews, digital storytelling, children's tales, Flash animations, student films, mash-ups — all kinds of digital works have begun to flourish as the Internet rises up alongside big media as a place where we’ll gather to inform, entertain and astound each other.

We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.

Get recognized for your creativity. Make your voice heard. Register now and join the personal media revolution.

Here's what Seth Godin has to say:

It is now supercheap to serve up media
It is also supercheap to make music and video and text
and
the big guys can't afford to make good stuff any more, so it's all reality TV and recycled music anyway.

What Ourmedia does is power the long tail.

Along with Yahoo 360 (see "How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back"), Ourmedia.org marks "The Rise of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation" (see also Broadband Mechanics):

Imagine a next generation MyYahoo service which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided them with "home publishing" capabilities to create, store and distribute their own content. Imagine a social networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and in "real space".) 

Want to know more? Here's a podcast with the founders, Marc Canter and JD Lasica.

Will content be any good? Judge for yourself with ourmedia's most watched media to date, Sam Bisbee's music video You Are Here.

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April 3, 2005 in Social Media & Networks | Permalink

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