Tangentially hooked into video marketing…it’s both unbelievably cool, and totally scary at the same time. So I had to write about it :)
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Remember that scene in Minority Report where the advertisements knew who John Anderson (Tom Cruise) was and tailored the ads to suit him? Everyone either laughed as if to say it would never happen, were ecstatic at the thought of their products being advertised in th
Qik.com has been ‘qiking’ around for some time but now they’ve kicked things into high gear and have opened up for a public beta.
San Mateo, CA based Qik, which is pronounced ‘quick’ strangely enough, are makers of a mobile phone application made to allow users to stream video straight from their mobile phones to the web and then to other mobiles. This could make everyone a mobile journalist or life blogger if they have a video-capable mobile phone. The app is Twitter capable as well.
Qik looks to
Apple’s iPhone is changing the way we do, well, just about everything these days. With the release of the 3G version things are really heating up in the mobile market. The 3.5″ 480×320 pixel display makes for a great portable platform for video and with either 8GB or 16GB there is ample space to store a fair amount of it.. So it’s no wonder that applications are popping up for all sorts of interesting things to be done in regards to video. With the powerful processor, large screen and a
Flixwagon, a mobile live video broadcasting platform (sometimes referred to as lifecasting), announced yesterday that using their alpha client they successfully streamed the first-ever high quality video stream from unlocked iPhones to the internet.
They also mentioned that they are doing their best to work with the SDK for iphone in order to offer this functionality once Apple decides to make video a standard part of the iphone. For now, they plan to offer the functionality to all of their alpha testers n