YourTrumanShow Launches VideoMap Facebook App

YourTrumanShow initially previewed their VideoMap widget at DEMOfall 2007. Today they are launching the application into Facebook to help the friends on your list see what you are viewing and navigate to find new videos.

The company describes VideoMap as, "a new dimension to the web by enabling online video enthusiasts to visually discover and share content and connect with friends across popular social networks from inside the embeddable widget – wherever the videos reside on the Web."

As you hop from video-to-video inside of Truman or on YouTube, a map like the one shown below populates into your Facebook profile. From there your friends can interact with the map and move around it virtually to find other videos that are of interest to you and your friends. And then your friends (I assume they need to add the app as well) can add their videos and so on to create a rich experience to see a collective set of friend’s watched videos.

Personally I’ve never found the videos on YourTrumanShow to be that interesting, most are quite boring at best. By allowing users to embed YouTube videos, the widget and Facebook application have more potential to be a success.

Mashable has more on the launch.