I saw a post on TechCrunch about a new video sharing/aggregation site called Magnify.net. Magnify.net allows you to link to other video sites that allow embedding (Youtube, Google Video, etc.), and aggregate videos from those sites to your Magnify.net “channel”. It also allows users to upload video directly to the Magnify.net channel, with configurable options as to how many reviews a video must get, and a minimum rating, before the video is published to the channel. This is a “community policing” way of keeping spam off the channel.

I created a channel for the New Media Expo, and found the software to be fairly intuitive, but still somewhat buggy. I already posted a bug report. In posting the bug report, I spotted another bug, as I was clearly logged in as myself, but the forum software identified me as Guest. Obviously, they’ve bolted on some third party forum software, but haven’t fully integrated it into their system.

We’ll link to it from the Attendee Tools page for the Podcast and New Media Expo, and keep the channel updated with videos about the Expo. If you have a video you want posted, feel free to upload it to the channel.

Many people have been asking us what tag to use for blog posts, Flickr pictures, etc. for the upcoming Podcast and New Media Expo 2007, so we’re going with newmediaexpo2007. Hope to see you there.