Photophlow and Videophlow, two new services being offered soon by Oortle, combine the social aspect of the internet with user generated content. Photophlow allows a group of users to all view and scroll through a flickr album together, so that they are seeing the same image at the same time and able to discuss it in real time. Videophlow is the exact same concept, but centered around videos on YouTube. I think a program like this has the potential increase the sense of community that already exists around user generated content. While it's sure to be used for plenty of mindless commentary (as YouTube commenters have shown), it also has the potential to promote ongoing critical discussions about content.
These are the latest in a long string of applications being developed that take advantage of preexisting websites and builds on their infrastructure. A natural next step seems to be to turn this into a Facebook application so that it becomes easy to find and invite your friends to watch videos with you.
Source: TechCrunch
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