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"NextWebStar is an online contest site that is looking to provide a launching pad for the world's talent.\nNextWebStar lets you embed videos from other hosting services to be submitted to one of their ongoing talent contests.  Users can vote on the best contestant, comment, and add contestants to your own fan list.  Surprisingly, there's no way to rate content.  Only material of you displaying your talent can be submitted, as this isn't a free-for-all video aggregator.  \nNextWebStar is solely for videos though, so you won't find any \"best photo\" contests on the site.  Their community enables users to interact with each other as well, and encourages advertisers and casting directors to create contests on the site.  Unlike GoChongo, individual users cannot create their own contests. NextWebStar is taking a different approach for Internet stardom from many of the webcast sites such as Stickam and Operator 11, which offer ways to broadcast your video content.\nNextWebStar is hoping to leverage at least some aspects of the viral video phenomenon, since they're not directly connected with traditional media outlets, and they provide the public URL for any contestant's entry. That being said, I'm hoping to see an easier way to find members, and not just the contests they're a part of. While NextWebStar lets you add people to your fan list, it would be great to be able to add a particular contest entry (or video clip) as well.  Though, if they're thinking of getting rid of the video clips once the contest has ended, this wouldn't be a useful feature.  NextWebStar has also indicated that they plan on adding video hosting as well as video interviews with their live host in the future. In all, they'll need to find more ways to incentivize users.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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