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Title: Virtual Hilarity


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Virtual Hilarity
Streaming Personalized Comedy
Charles Sebens, Francisco Saldana and Matthew
Archie
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A Fusion of Web 2.0 Ideas
  • Applied to COMEDY!

3
Agenda
  • Comedians
  • Gathering Content
  • Comedian Profiles
  • Users
  • Custom Recommendations
  • Community Viewing
  • Viewing Modes
  • Profitability
  • Conclusion

4
Why Will Comedians Post Their Material For Free?
  • Connect with fans
  • Sell tickets to shows
  • Test out new material

5
Grassroots Movement
  • Send representatives to comedy clubs
  • Win-win situation
  • Start in a single city with local comedians
  • Build a database of users and videos
  • Then go national!

6
Comedian Profiles
  • Links to their best videos
  • Blogs by the comedians
  • Comedian-audience communication
  • Notifications about tours and shows

7
Playlist Selection
  • Users rate videos while viewing
  • Create a database of user ratings
  • Based on your ratings, determines which other
    users in the database have similar tastes
  • Presents content other users with your taste liked

8
Community Viewing
  • Recreating the comedy club experience
  • Allow users to stream a video simultaneously in
    groups
  • Groups created based on similarity in taste
  • User profiles
  • Avatar chatting

9
Waiting Room
  • As groups form users may have to wait
  • Jokes
  • Fun Facts
  • Statistics
  • Tips on usage

Waiting The Candidates as Trains
10
Virtual Hilarity
That was NOT funny!
Shut up, that was great!!
Lolzzz
New Group
Home
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Viewing Modes
  • Audience mode
  • Community viewing
  • Full screen mode
  • Distraction-free
  • Compact mode
  • Allows multitasking

12
Technology
  • Open-Source Building on the commons
  • MySQL
  • Python
  • AJAX
  • FLV Content
  • Proprietary
  • Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server
  • Adobe Flash Player
  • ActionScript Language

13
Profitability
  • Sell tickets to comedy shows
  • On commission
  • Based on preferences
  • Advertising Comedy
  • Linking to DVDs/CDs of comedians being viewed

14
Structure
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