The latest and greatest from Nokia, The N97, is coming over to Israel very soon. This phone promises to be the next best thing in mobile technology with a touch screen as well as a QWERTY keyboard and unparalleled music and video broadcasting capabilities. To launch the new phone, Nokia Israel teamed up with Flixwagon to showcase the phone's capabilities.

The idea is simple: pick 100 influential bloggers, and surprise the first blogger with a big black box. The blogger then opens the box and if he is lucky enough, he will be the proud owner of the first N97 in Israel. If not, he needs to pick the next blogger from the blogger list which will do the same.

The game is broadcasted here, live from Flixwagon on a N97 phone. And yes...people can follow the game live as it happens here, broadcasting with Flixwagon from the Nokia N97s.

Find out who's going to be the lucky owner a brand new Nokia N97 as the game unfolds! Here is how it looked like when Moran Lavie (@moranlavie) got her chance :

(Beautiful picture courtesy of  Shayfu's flickr photostream)

Tropical Reggae Breeze is a cool 24X7 reggae music radio station from the beautiful island of Providenciales. We have to admit that we didn't know a lot about this Island up until today, but were happy to find out they are harnessing the power of Flixwagon to reach their audience worldwide. Catch up with exactly what's happening on the island covered by their live bloggers. Check out this authentic local fire report from tropical:

Watch hollywood's biggest stars, live from the red carpet ! MTV reports are broadcasting all the action from the  2009 MTV Movie awards. Click here for live coverage.

Elektra, a high-calibre Montreal-based cultural initiative, presents artists and works of art that align the latest electronic music and visual creations derived from new technologies (animation, installation and robotics). Elektra unites creative media like music, video, cinema, design, gaming and audio or interactive installation with the latest digital technologies

This year, flixwagon has teamed up with Provokat to perform the first ever live video-bio-metrics stream from a mobile phones to the web. During the Elektra Festival, website (http://www.elektrafestival.ca) visitors will be able to experience the Elektra festival ambiance, through the emotions of Lucy. Lucy wanders around the different festival events, and broadcasts live feed of video, pulse, bio-metrics and location to the web. check it out and experience the festival like never before !

update : for those of you who haven't seen yet, here is lucy in action. checkout festival scheduale to figure out when lucy is on line.

Ever wish you could track and share your broadcast location ? well starting today, you can do that using Flixwagon ! and this is true for both GPS and non GPS enabled phones. And yes, you have full control over location privacy. A map was added to the right hand-side of our video player, where the location of the live or stored flix is presented. we will even show your detailed route if you are on the go (see example below) :

To set your location privacy preferences, please login to your account, and choose from one of below following options under account settings :

- Dont show my location : we wont share your location with the public.
- Show location I have on my profile : in this case,we will only show the country you have on your profile.
- Show exact location : in this case, we will share your location, based on GPS or cell info.





















remember : once logged in, you can always view your flix location.
last but not least : to enable GPS tracking, launch flixwagon, and change GPS data to ‘Enable’ under settings.































As always, feedback is welcomed here, or e-mail to feedback@flixwagon.com.

Yes, its that time of the year again. CTIA 2009 is just 2 days away, and this year Forum Nokia is hosting Flixwagon ! Head over to the Nokia booth Thursday, April 2nd or Friday,April 3rd after noon to see our latest and greatest. and yes, we do have some cool flixwagon giveways..see you there.

The SXSW music and media conference showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages. If you are a music fan and you are not wearing your cowboy boots these days in downtown austin, you can follow MTV's news room live coverage of the festival here and on MTV's news room blog.

According to MTV :  'This year, things are looking to be just as awesome. There are rumors (repeat: rumors) of performances by Metallica — under the relatively awesome Norse name of Volsung — on Friday and Kanye West on Saturday. We'll see the return of alt-rock greats Jane's Addiction — in all their original-lineup glory — and faerie queen Tori Amos. Big Boi, Rick Ross and Jadakiss are all scheduled to appear. There will be sets by the Silversun Pickups, Explosions in the Sky, Primal Scream, Devo, the Hold Steady, M. Ward and Peter Bjorn and John. Plus, indie heavyweights like the Thermals, the Decemberists (performing their new album, The Hazards Of Love, in its entirety) and Grizzly Bear, who will unveil tracks from their much-anticipated Vecktimest album at what promises to be a revelatory church show'. MTV's news crew will provide up to minute updates, video interviews and live shows. what more can you ask for ?

While we’ve supported video capturing on jailbroken iPhones for some time, many of our users have been requesting to also view Flixwagon videos on the iPhone.  So today we’re happy to launch the new Flixwagon iPhone site. To access, simply go to www.flixwagon.com from your iPhone browser (on any iPhone).

We just released our new Symbian version. We highly recommend to upgrade - if you are using one of the recent versions of Flixwagon you will be prompted to do so; If not, simply download the latest version (build 3.05.123) from m.flixwagon.com/nokia. Inside this version :

 - Pause and resume broadcast: you can now easily pause and resume in a middle of a broadcast! While broadcasting simply hit 'options', and then 'pause' - and the broadcast will pause until you hit 'resume broadcast'.

- Live broadcasts have priority over saved ones: when starting a live broadcast, any previous uploads will be on hold until the new broadcast is over. Once the live video is finished uploading, previous videos that have not made it to the server will resume uploading. This means that even if you were in a ‘dead-zone’ and have videos waiting to upload, you can still always go live immediately.
 
- Better indication of upload progress : we have added a clear indication of the upload progress. From now on you can see not only how many videos are left to upload, but also the progress of each upload.

- Better organization of options in Broadcasting Screen: to upload your flix to YouTube or Ovi, simply click the 'upload to' and select the applicable service. Also, post to twitter is now on the main menu right before 'Post Message to Chat'.

 - Extended device support: with the new update Flixwagon should support the entire family of Nokia S60 3rd edition. This version supports much requested models such as the E71,N96 and Express Music 5800.

- And of course: bug fixes, mainly relating to uploading cached broadcasts.

We hope you enjoy the new version. Feel free to report bugs and share feedback here.