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TechJournal South wrote:Urvew launching first video micro-blogging social network
July 21st, 2011


Travis Potter

By Allan Maurer

New takes on the social network meme pop up almost daily. URVEW, founded in January this year and currently only available to colleges and universities (you need a .edu address to sign up), is the first video micro-blogging site. The company launched just prior to Tech Media’s Digital Summit in Atlanta where it was a demo company earlier this year.

“Our goal is to connect the world thorugh video communication,” explains Co-founder and CRO Travis Potter. “Current social networks are not personal enough. Video is the best way to get across feelings and your overall self.”

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This will fail. In my opinion one of the biggest draws to online socialization is the mask you can put over your in-person social awkwardity. You can't hide it in a video.

Example: it took me like 3 minutes to write this out in a way so that I didn't sound retarded. I revised it a few times so that I sound intelligent and to decide whether or not I wanted to use "awkwardity" even though spell check is telling me that's not a word. A video would either sound rehearsed or you'd look like a bumbling idiot.

And there's the fact that people already use Youtube to do this. I guess you could say that Youtube is too crowded, but it also has the largest audience.

And limiting this to .edu people? Why would I want to watch a bunch of stupid college kids say stupid things? Facebook realized the folly of this pretty quickly.