Spielberg’s Ghost Gets Support

Director and film mogul Steven Spielberg has been rumored to be working on a social video hosting network code-named Ghost for quite some time now. According to the most recent rumor source, Ghost has found support. It is said that Spielberg will be partnering with long time friend Terry Semel's group Windsor Media.

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.

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 rumored 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.

Rumors 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. 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.

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