Collective Ranking of Digital Content

A user interface for a digital content hosting web site for displaying a set of digital content items to be collaboratively ranked, the user interface comprising:

• a plurality of digital content rows, each digital content row comprising:
• a ranking cell displaying a relative ranking position of the digital content item associated with the row;
• a region adapted to display a digital content item;
• a title cell including information about the digital content item, the information comprising the digital content item's title, a producer or a number of views the digital content item has received;
• a first button adapted to increase a ranking position of the digital content item;
• a second button adapted to decrease the ranking position of the digital content item;
• and
• an element adapted to display the numerical change of ranking positions for the digital content.

A digital content hosting website for determining a collaborative ranking of a set of digital content items, the digital content hosting website comprising:

• a digital content database for storing digital content;
• a user database for storing registered users of the digital content hosting website;
• a scoring module adapted to determine a ranking score for each digital content item in a set of digital content items based at least on a previous ranking score;
• and
• an authentication module adapted to determine valid registered users and valid ranking votes.

A computer program product for determining a new collaborative ranking for a set of digital content items in a digital content hosting website, comprising a computer-readable medium containing computer program code for controlling a processor to perform a method comprising:

• storing the set of digital content items, each digital content item having a ranking in the set;
• displaying the set of digital content items to a plurality of users;
• receiving a plurality of ranking votes for the digital content items in the set from a plurality of users, the ranking votes ordering the digital content items with respect to each other;
• determining a new ranking score for each digital content item based at least on a previous ranking score;
• and
• updating the ranking for each digital content item in the set based on the new ranking score.

A computer program product for producing a user interface for a digital content hosting web site for displaying a set of digital content items to be collaboratively ranked, the user interface comprising:

• a plurality of digital content rows, each digital content row comprising:
• a ranking cell displaying a relative ranking position of the digital content item associated with the row;
• a region adapted to display a digital content item;
• a title cell including information about the digital content item, the information comprising the digital content item's title, a producer or a number of views the digital content item has received;
• a first button adapted to increase a ranking position of the digital content item;
• a second button adapted to decrease the ranking position of the digital content item;
• and
• an element adapted to display the numerical change of ranking positions for the digital content.