Just got back in town in time to be there for the ABC News crew who were interviewing my mom for a report on retirement...
My mom rocked, as did the crew...
I ended up showing them how my posts to flickr and Qik end up on twitter...
Here a short video of me showing them Qik, live streaming from the cell phone...
Wandering the streets of Manchester, NH, during the presidential primary campaign, a self-described "citizen journalist" named Steve Garfield bumped into Duncan Hunter, a minor Republican candidate. Garfield pointed his phone's camera at Hunter for a quick interview, whereupon Hunter disclosed that he was about to tell CNN he wasn't quitting the race.That quote is accurate... Ha, ha! I'm valley speaking.
What Hunter didn't know is that Garfield's phone was armed with software from the startup Qik, allowing it to capture video and stream the interview--in real time--on Qik's website and thence to other platforms, including Garfield's Twitter network. Thus, Garfield says, he scooped CNN on this bit of election minutia...
The company is now working on business models. In one, it would sell ads to Web video consumers who text-message replies; in another, it would take a cut from sales of high-end cell phones that capture the best videos (which would come Qik-equipped). Garfield is happy to pay: "Viewers can type in a window while watching, and affect the coverage. That's, like, totally amazing and groundbreaking!"
Millions of people now live-journal nearly every happening, thought and moment in their lives on Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, Socialthing and dozens of other services. So much so that I know a number of folks who literally rush to the computer of cell phone the seconds something remotely interesting begins to happen, out of an almost addictive need to report what’s going down.Nick James comments:
Question is, is this activity turning us more into journalists of our own lives and less into participants?
I think you’ve hit Hunter S. Thompson’s definition of Gonzo bang on the nail there. True Gonzo was becoming the story, the actor, the director, the writer, and the producer - all of these things rolled into one and reporting it on the fly without editing.Very interesting comment...
I embrace blogging and micro-blogging for making this possible to every one of us. I’m sure Dr. Thompson would’ve embraced it too. Imagine if he’d been set loose in Vegas with a PDA and a Twitter/ Plurk account.
"Soohoo is getting beat up a bit before what isn't exactly a McCain audience at the tech conference.
Pressed again on McCain's tech savvy, he defends his candidate.
'You don’t actually have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country,' he says.
'You actually do,' former Edwards blogger Tracy Russo responds, suggesting he try to explain Twitter to his grandmother and then ask her how that applies to governing.
'John McCain is aware of the Internet,' says Soohoo. 'This is a man who has a very long history of understanding on a range of issues.'"
"Yesterday we also introduced another highly requested feature: paginating your entry archives. If you're a frequent or long-time blogger on TypePad, you know that your monthly or category archives will just grow and grow and grow as you continue to post on your favorite topics. This can create challenges for your readers, who have to load a very large page in order to read your great posts on Cooking or Software or Television.Looking at the blog post I see that this feature was actually released on October 19, 2007.
TypePad will now automatically 'paginate' your date archives and your category archives, and give your readers the familiar 'previous' 'next' links to navigate through your archives. This feature will make your archives easier to read and faster to download. And like we did with comment pagination, we're introducing a new set of preferences for your blog where you can define how many entries to show in a set (between 1 and 50), as well as the labels you want to use for the 'next' and 'previous' links. Don't like 'next' and 'previous'? Then change the labels to 'Keep going' and 'Go back.' Or 'Mooooore' and 'Lesssss.' Or anything you like. Learn more about configuring your blog publishing preferences in this Knowledge Base article."
"A night owl, Mr. Obama is known to send e-mail messages well after midnight. Laurence H. Tribe, his Harvard law professor who now serves as an informal adviser, said he received an e-mail message from the candidate at 1:30 a.m. on June 4, when he had received enough delegates to claim the nomination."John McCain? I'm not so sure...
1 Apple - Love the ease of useWell that was an interesting exercise that didn't take too much time. It's interesting that in the top 5 brands I thought of, 3 of them have sent me products, and out of my top 10, 4 out of 10 have sent me something.
2 Nokia - Open, best video ( N95, N800, N82, and a bunch of acessories )
3 Qik - People and one button streaming ( N95-3 )
4 Blip.tv - Great people and video hosting that works ( Pro Account )
5 Western Digital - Quiet, reliable hard drive, available at Apple Stores
6 Harpoon Beer - Fresh and local
7 JetBlue - Fun and lots of legroom
8 Flip - Easy way to shoot video
9 Nikon- Easy, high quality photos ( D80 )
10 Yamaha - Surround sound without all the speakers and wires
11 Janome sewing machine - Top of my mind for sewing machines from seeing it on NNN and Etsy
12 Revision 3 - Lots of news from them lately, Epic-Fu and Wine Library, Gary Vaynerchuk
13 Etsy - Craft and Bre Pettis
14 Chris Brogan - Lots of interesting info
15 Moblogic.tv - Lindsay Campbell presents her take on the news and includes us, great team!
16 SciFi - BSG
17 HBO - Quality, movies
18 AT&T - Good service ( cell service )
19 Comcast - Fast and reliable
20 TiVo - Best DVR
21 BMW - Quality
22 JP Licks - Free iced coffee on Father's Day
23 Real Deal Deli - Convenient fresh sandwiches
24 Sharp - HD TV
25 Sony - HD TV
26 Sam Adams - Boston beer company, quality
27 Epic Fu - Friends, Now twice a week and fun
28 Barack Obama - Next president with a brain
29 NBC - News
30 American Idol - Fun
31 Bravo - Reality
32 Get Smart - Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Dwayne Johnson. Loved the original.
33 Top Chef - Food and fun
34 Celtics - Beat LA!
35 WCVB TV Boston HD - Quality
36 Poland Spring - Sports Bottles
37 Jimmy Fund Dana Farber - Scooperbowl
38 Twitter - Friends
39 iJustine - Everywhere
40 Loic Le Meur - Building an open company ( investor )
"I don’t see how Qik or Flixwagon can beat Kyte anymore in the cell phone video game. What do you think?"I replied:
Robert,
Your title of, "Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space," is your opinion, will probably get you a lot of views, but you can't know this as a fact.
You sound like the political reporters who said it would be Hilary Clinton vs. Rudy Giuliani in this year's US Presidential election. They were wrong and could not possibly see the future.
Can't we all just get along?
I've been using Qik for quite a while now. I've met the people behind it and have gotten great support, as have you. Disclaimer, they sent me a Nokia N95-3 after watching my NH presidential primary coverage.
Watching videos on a Nokia
As others have said in the comments, your bullet list has a few facts that need to be corrected including the fact that you can now watch Qik videos on your Nokia device. They have 3GP files.
A Broadcast Studio with Mogulus
When you combine Qik with Mogulus you get the "ability to mix videos from your webcam, live videos streaming from your web cam, recorded videos from camcorders, or from places like YouTube, along with both recorded and streamed videos from your cell phone."
I recently did a presentation with Qik and Mogulus at Streaming Media East. Good stuff.
Here's a video from the session:
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/05/live-broadcasting-over-mobile-and-wi-fi.html
Multiple Videos in a player with YouTube
Yesterday I streamed videos from Boston City Councillor John Tobin's Parkway Family Day. Each of those videos was automatically sent to YouTube. I then added them all into a playlist and now you can watch all the video from one custom YouTube video player:
http://www.votejohntobin.com/blog/_archives/2008/6/14/3744096.html
Extensive Testing
I've also got Kyte, Flixwagon and Bambuser on my phone, but haven't "extensively tested" tested them as you have because Qik just works for me and the people are super.
Qik is People
It's a lot like the video hosting space. When I first started videoblogging I used a couple of services that had great features, then I moved to blip.tv, where in addition to having lots of features, they have a lot of great people providing support.
Kyte.tv will not kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space.
"Madrid - It will take the United States a century to recover from the damage wreaked by President George. W Bush, US writer Gore Vidal said in an interview published on Saturday.
'The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn't have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the American constitution,' Vidal told the El Mundo newspaper.
The author, a trenchant critic of the US-led invasion of Iraq, said it would take the United States '100 years to repair the damage' caused by Bush.
'We live in a dictatorship. We have a fascist government ...which controls the media,' he said.
Vidal also said presidential aspirant Barack Obama was 'intelligent' adding that it would be a 'novelty' to have an 'intelligent' person in the White House."
"Considering the stakes of this election, shouldn't part of the process of choosing the next president be a 'job interview' of sorts, designed to shed light on the candidates' leadership capacity? Voters deserve a better understanding of who the candidates really are; their aptitude for building teams and coalitions; their judgment and decision-making style; and the special competencies they bring to getting difficult things done.Since the Globe doesn't link to websites mentioned in it's articles, I went and found the site that has all the questions and lots of background.
To that end, the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Ken Blanchard Companies recently convened a diverse group of leaders from all sectors - government, corporate, and nonprofit - as well as academics and others who study leadership. Two hundred participants developed questions for the candidates that would help introduce them more fully as leaders to the American voter."
Who Are You Really?Good questions.
1. Values: What are your five core values and how do they shape how you lead?
2. Attributes & Competencies: What are the attributes and competencies you value most in yourself that will serve you well in the White House?
3. Weaknesses & Mistakes: Recent American history has many examples of leaders whose weaknesses brought them down. What are your tendencies that could cause your presidency to fail?
4. People I Have Learned From: What historical figure has exercised leadership in a way that you aspire to? What were their strengths? Tell us about a situation that tested their leadership.
5. Multicultural Experience/World View: What experiences have helped you deeply understand the mindset and values of other cultures?
Who Will Be at The Table With You?
6. Building a Team: Tell us about a high performing team that you’ve built. What made it high-performing?
7. Coalition Building: Can you share some examples of when you were a catalyst who brought groups with polarized opinions together so that all voices were at the table?
8. Increasing Participation: The internet and technology have flattened the political playing field, allowing for more participation and collective decision making. How will you create a more participatory democracy and give people the opportunity to influence decision making?
9. Increasing Participation: Young people have engaged in this election in greater numbers than ever before. Please give us some examples of how you have listened and responded to the next generation in your campaign. How will you keep the next generation engaged?
How Will You Decide?
10. Decision Making Style: The president’s role requires decisiveness. Please share some examples of your ability and willingness to be decisive. Can you tell us about a time when a lack of decisiveness got you into trouble. In retrospect, what would you have done differently?
11. Judgment: Tell us about a time when your judgment was tested in crisis. What do you want us to appreciate about your judgment?
How Will You Act? And What Will You Act On?
12. Leading Change: Can you give us an example of how you have overcome resistance to bring about a needed change?
13. Innovative Thinking: How will you create an environment for innovation within your leadership team?
14. Building the Confidence of Others: What are the first few things you’ll do to raise confidence at home and abroad?
15. Priorities Indicative of Values: The USA ranks 1st in incarceration and 18th in high school graduation. What leadership skills and values do you bring to the challenge of reversing these numbers? Can you point to three things in your past that will help us understand that you care about this challenge?
Jeff Alworth, a Portland, Ore., beer blogger, university researcher and a founder of the Honest Pint Project, has been testing suspected short-pouring bars, in some cases measuring his beer-glass capacity by the men's room sink. His group collected more than 400 names in two weeks for an online petition urging state regulators to enforce a 16-ounce rule. And at one point, he was posting the names of bars that didn't measure up on his Web site. But in response to complaints, he now has taken to listing the names of establishments serving full pints in bigger glasses. "I'm not a firebrand," says Mr. Alworth. "I am devoted to Oregon beer, and it seemed like using glasses where you don't get a 16-ounce pour was not so cool."The Honest Pint Project. Sounds like a good crowd sourcing project for the Boston area.
Video: Final Cut Pro, Canon GL/2 with LaCie Firewire 800 External Hard Drives Don't Work Together
I just learned that although Massachusetts makes it very difficult for wineries to ship to the state, you can ship wine to yourself.
So take that Massachusetts legislature, I'm shipping wine to Massachusetts!