WellcomeMat is a locally-focused video service that lets people share videos about their local towns. there is real-estate, city tours, news and more.

the app was developed by Nick Verbeck, which put a lot of work into creating a rich browsing experience, including search, tag based navigation, chapter navigation and even built in Twitter integration (so you can Tweet the video you are watching).

Nick Verbeck in his own words:

I’m an almost typical Open Source developer, and I love to spread the good word about Ubuntu. After reading up on Boxee and the fact that it supports Ubuntu as 1 of the main OSes, I had to try it out.

Some WellcomeMat background: WellcomeMat is a locally-focused site for “videos that tell the stories of people and places,” and our goal is to be the video guide to every cool city in the US.

What We Think is Unique About Our Boxee App:

With this first version of our Boxee app, we wanted to give people a unique experience when looking at locally-focused video content and therefore integrated Google Maps. Secondly, because Boxee’s allows us to control video playback with ease, I was able to leverage the “video chapters” that our users enter into our videos. Our chapters allow viewers to jump around the video to the areas they wish to watch (the “master bedroom” of a real estate video for example). As a bonus feature we decided to also include the ability for a user to post a
video right to there Twitter account and share it with all their friends.

In all I hope that you enjoy this app and the ideas that went into it. Thanks to the Boxee team for the opportunity!