Collaborative media sharing

A user interface displayed on a computing device, the user interface operated by a participant in a video party, the user interface comprising:

• a graphic queue comprised of icons of video clips in a media queue of the video party, the graphic queue including an icon of a current video clip and icons of other video clips queued to be displayed in a main video display area;
• the main media video display area in which the current video clip in the queue is displayed;
• graphic indicators of other current participants in the video party, wherein the other current participants are able to modify the queue and the user interface updates accordingly to reflect the updates;
• and
• an edit user interface element that the participant can activate to edit the media queue, the graphic queue updating accordingly.

One or more computer-readable storage media, not comprising a signal, and storing information to enable one or more computers to perform a process of operating a media party service, the process comprising:

• managing a set of media parties, and managing a set of users of the media party service, the managing the set of media parties including instantiating new media parties according to input from the users, allowing the users to join the media parties, and tracking which users are participating in which media parties;
• managing a given one of the media parties by:
• maintaining a queue of media items comprised of ordered identifiers of media items, allowing all users in the media party to provide input to add media items to the queue and to provide input to skip media items in the queue;
• and
• streaming the given one of the media parties to client devices of the users currently in the given media party such that all of the client devices are currently displaying substantially a same part of a media item in the corresponding queue.