1,000 Curated Communities with 300 curators
UPDATE: As far as I can tell, is Mefeedia the World’s Largest Human-Powered Knowledgebase for Online Video? Mahalo is bigger on the text side, YouTube and other UGC are more about general categories, and the How-To video sites are more about How-To rather than what i would consider knowledgebases, aka Wikipedia.
Please leave a comment or send an email to frank at mefeedia dot com if you have any thoughts on this.
Mefeedia has reach another important milestone – 1,000 curated channels – thanks to the Mefeedia community of content curators, now number 330 active, and growing.
Our original goal of channels was to create small, enthusiast communities that would curate the best video feeds from the around the Web – a sort of knowledgebase for online video and audio. Each channel would be Wiki-like where anyone could add or remove a video feed that is relevant to that channel’s topic. Today, with over 1,200 curated channels, Mefeedia’s channels cover a range of topics – everything from cooking to travel to social media to comedy.
Some statistics on our Channels:
- 330 active curators editing and adding to channels
- 1,200 Channel communities
- 4,650 video feeds added
- 1,050,000 videos curated
Feed Focus
The key to channels is creating order out of chaos – an organized knowledgebase for online video. This is why we focused on creating communities and audiences around media feeds - you can quickly find and subscribe to the shows in each specific topic. For example, a user can quickly find and subscribe to “Fearless Cooking” and “Healthy Helpings TV” within the Cooking channel, and see the other 16 shows focused on cooking. It is one place to find every media feed on cooking – all filtered and vetted through the community!
Human-Powered Knowledgebase for Online Video
Wikipedia is the perfect example of a human-powered knowledge site that is constantly evolving and improving. Similarly, Mefeedia has become one of the largest knowledgebases of online video information available on the web today – and continues to evolve based on the 1,000 channels and expertise of 330 active curators.
Anyone can join a channel and begin participating by following these easy 5 steps:
- Register on Mefeedia.com
- Browse to a channel you would like to participate in – click “Join Channel”.
- Find or submit a Feed (becomes a “Show” on Mefeedia.com) that you would like to add.
- Go to that feed’s “Show Page” (will be at www.mefeedia.com/feeds/[some number]).
- Click “Add to Channel” and add to the appropriate channel.
All channels are then monitored by the 300+ curators and Mefeedia staff, so if something is added inappropriately – say, a Golf Show to the Cooking Channel – it can subsequently be removed.
What’s Next
We plan to greatly expand this knowledge network, building on top of these channels to enable even better search and discovery on media. Stay tuned.
