Hot Like Magma Full Screen Auto Player!
[From the Magma Newsletter May 23, 2011]
We have been quietly growing with new members and regular daily visitors over the past year and remain committed to providing the most useful and simple entry point into internet TV.
FULL SCREEN PLAYER!
Today we are pleased to announce a new HTML video player to watch any Magma channel (including your dashboard!) at full screen, with back-to-back, auto-play viewing.
For example: Want to watch the Reddit channel? (i.e. some of the most popular videos on Reddit right now?) Click on http://mag.ma/reddit and then view “Full” screen. This is designed for your own channel and even the categories within your channels too.
Once you are in full screen mode, just sit back and relax while Magma does the work. If desired, you can navigate backwards and forwards through a channel with the on-screen controllers or the left/right/spacebar keys.
Some other examples of uses for the full screen player: curate an hour long playlist of lean-back viewing for your friends to watch, full-screen, hand-free; create an influential channel that others can enjoy following to view on their internet connected TVs; keep a collection of videos to flip through full screen for future reference.
DID YOU KNOW?
Magma has an explainer video! See: http://mag.ma/15xtah
Most people who use Magma regularly visit the home page, especially the “Must Watch” channel to discover videos that are destined to become popular, BEFORE they become popular.
You can create your own personal auto-generating TV channel by following the channels you want. Each newly added video will appear in your Dashboard.
You can create a public channel from your favorite blog by adding the RSS feed to your settings import menu. Magma will look through each blog post and grab any videos that are mentioned and add them to the channel. For example, here is a channel for the wonderful Laughing Squid blog: http://mag.ma/laughingsquid Each new video is posted automatically to create the channel from the Laughing Squid RSS feed.
Instant video-adding/publishing is available via the Magma browser bookmarklet:
http://mag.ma/goodies/bookmarklet
Automatically add freshly uploaded videos to Magma! Just enter in a YouTube or Vimeo account name, or an RSS feed: http://mag.ma/settings/import
You can auto-sync your Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr accounts with a pre-formatted message to publish every time you add a video to your channel. http://mag.ma/settings/sharing
You can generate an RSS feed of almost any page on Magma by adding a ‘.rss’ to the end of any Magma URL. For example, if you would like an RSS feed of the Magma Top Video channel at http://mag.ma/leaderboard the RSS feed is http://mag.ma/leaderboard.rss
What features would YOU like to see?
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