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This just in… Here is a sneak peek of CurrentTV’s new (invite only) Current.com website that Al Gore promoed during the Emmys last month. The site launches to the public on October 15th. Key points are: Explore, Connect, Contribute, Watch. They have a cool “Viewpoints” section that allows people to upload their opinions and for people to vote on it. You can watch the pods online. This site is pretty cool… it is more of a daily homepage than Current.tv… and that is what I was hoping for. Nice job Current… still a big fan! (thx for a peek… of our future)

Update:

Here is the first story I’ve seen, from Multichannel News

And, Hyatt’s words from a 9/18 SFGate story:

“What we’re moving toward (with next month’s launch) is giving them a reason to be on both screens at the same time,” Hyatt said. “What it’s designed to do is, if you’re at Current.com (a soon-to-be-launched Web site), you’re now going to have a reason to walk into a room that has a television and turn on Current TV. And if you’re watching Current TV, you’re going to have a reason to, at the same time, pull open your laptop and go to Current.com.

“We’re going to make those experiences mutually reinforcing, mutually re-enriching, in real time. We’re going to create fully, the first two-screen experience,” Hyatt said.

More screenshots…

“On TV” programming wheel…

“Make TV”…

“People”…

“My Current”

“Make Current”…

…hey look, this post on Current.com relates to my previous posts (NIN, Yahoo) about the record labels…

… and that my friends is what I would call modern media… 360 degree media… full circle media… conversation media… iceberg media (you “see” the top, but the content is really on the bottom)… the traditional equivalent of digg and YouTube and then some (personality, a brand and more dynamic). the rest of the industry will follow (this channel aimed at a hard-to-reach demo) in some manner.

Another blog post re: beta current.com, and another