Steven Spielberg may be best known around the world as a movie director and film mogul, but he is also a fan of the paranormal, and could be about to turn his interest in to a social video hosting network.
He has been rumoured to have been working on the network, code-named Ghost, for quite
some time now, and that same rumour mill is still churning.
According to the most recent source, Ghost has
found support. It is said that Spielberg will be partnering with long
time friend Terry Semel’s group Windsor Media.
Investing In Friendship
The potential pairing makes sense. In addition to years of
friendship as a base for business, Windsor Media is an investor firm
owned by Semel.
Semel’s fairly recent departure from Yahoo means he will have
plenty of free time to make sure his friend’s venture finds support, a
host and success.
Do You Believe?
Ghost is reported to be focusing on hosted video and social
interaction for people who have experienced the supernatural or
alien.
If you have been on TV regularly being interviewed about “the
time the
UFO abducted me” or believe in ghosts, haunted houses, the paranormal,
the supernatural, extraordinary abilities and more, Spielberg’s network
is geared to your needs.
If nothing else, the rumoured new social network, offering
hosting
for user created videos and a place to connect with like-minded people,
should be entertaining and intriguing for people without stories of the
surreal as well.
Everyone is curious, and there is nothing that grabs
curiosity like stories of the wacky, weird, improbable, intangible and
sometimes scary.
Spielberg’s Experiences
Rumours of Spielberg’s
own actual experiences with the supernatural have followed him since he
was a kid. His love of the weird and unexplained has trickled into his
creative projects as well. S
Since I can think of more than 50 people
with a story to tell and a computer to tell it with near me right now,
I think he may have found the next untapped Web 2.0 niche. People want
to tell their stories, especially if they are strange, and I, for one,
am willing to listen.
This article is based on a Profy post written by Leslie Poston.
