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March 2008 ArchivesA video is worth a thousand words...
Ricky Cadden, Editor in Chief at www.Symbian-Guru.com, and his lovely fiancé Christina, decided to celebrate their wedding as never done before. As a tech savvy blogger, Ricky decided to broadcast his wedding LIVE to the internet using Flixwagon and 4 S60-powered Nokia N82 smartphones. Friends and family who couldn’t join the celebration as well as readers and online friends will be able to celebrate with Ricky and Christina and witness these special moments in the lives of the young couple. The cameras will be rolling all day long, so that visitors can follow the bride and groom as they get ready for the big event. All broadcasts will be available here: www.flixwagon.com/wedding/ (mind the last /) Flixwagon, by MyFrame Inc., leading provider of high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web, is changing how people capture and share video on the web. It provides an application to easily stream live, high-quality video from a mobile phone directly to the Web. With Flixwagon, you can broadcast your world to individuals and groups, your blog, social networks and leading video sites. MyFrame Inc. is privately held with offices in Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit www.flixwagon.com. In less than a week, CTIA 2008 kicks off in Las Vegas. The conference is publicized as the largest wireless conference in the world. Bena Roberts, founder and chief editor of the blog GoMo News and Debi Jones will bring a compelling social media experience to the conference. They will kick off with a party on Sunday night (March 30th) to unveil a mobile video broadcast studio! An RV brightly marked will cruise up to the Las Vegas Conference Center and pick up interviewees who will be whisked away from the saturated towers serving the CC. They will set up to stream from the RV and go live using Flixwagon with a variety of pioneering people and innovative companies along side the big brands that fuel mobile content and services. Watch GoMo News for all the up to date information on where and how to watch the broadcasts. A couple of Nokia N95s will be the video capture devices and Flixwagon as the service to stream from the device, store the videos and alert Twitter followers or Flixwagon fans that a new video is LIVE. The interviews and product demos are designed to be informative and conversational. The audience will be invited to join in with their own questions through chat during the broadcast. All broadcasts will be available here: www.flixwagon.com/ctia (coming up) We want to thank GoMo News on Wheels! for a great initiative and also to our fellow sponsors: Flixwagon, mPulse, MCN, and Smaato. And to the GoMo News Blender sponsor JumpTap.
Look who was a guest at the Pop17 show!
Delivering Live Mobile-to-Web Broadcasts Directly to YouTube, Blogs, and Social Networking Sites LEXINGTON, MA—March 21, 2008—Flixwagon, by MyFrame Inc., leading provider of high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web, today announced the launch of the FliXee Widget which will stream live mobile-to-web broadcasts directly to Flixwagon users Websites, Blogs, and Social Networking sites. Additionally, Flixwagon users will now have the capability to deliver their mobile-to-web broadcasts directly to YouTube through their Flixwagon account. The FliXee Widget allows users, such as Sarah Meyers of Pop17.com, to stream their live mobile broadcasts captured through Flixwagon directly to personal Web pages. Stored broadcasts can also be accessed through the FliXee Widget for quick viewing. Registered Flixwagon users can download the FliXee Widget application and immediately begin streaming their live broadcasts. "The FliXee Widget has simplified the way I can broadcast from anywhere to my audience," said Sarah Meyers, Pop17.com. “Now I can share my live broadcasts in real-time directly on my site." Flixwagon simplifies how people capture and share video by enabling anyone with a capable 3G mobile phone to broadcast live directly to the Internet. In providing an application to easily stream live, high-quality video from a mobile phone, Flixwagon is enabling users to broadcast their world to individuals and groups, blogs, social networks and leading video sites such as YouTube, MySpace, MSN Space, Blogger, etc. “The FliXee Widget is simplifying the way Flixwagon users deliver and share their live broadcasts and experiences directly to leading Websites,” said Eran Hess, President, MyFrame Inc. “These new features continue to demonstrate the scalability and reach of our Flixwagon broadcasting technology and the simplicity and ease-of-use in delivering high quality video online.” About Flixwagon MyFrame and Flixwagon are trademarks of MyFrame, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Good news for ya' Flixers! From today, you can upload your Flixwagon videos to your YouTube channel. It is very simple, all you need to do is:
and voila! Also, you can click on the YouTube logo when watching a certain flix. Please note:
Enjoy! Good news for you Flixers! You can now set or change your sharing settings for a particular video before or during the broadcast. That means that even if your default sharing is set to “public” you can change a video to “private” right before you decide to ride the mechanical bull with your friends on a Friday night and broadcast it live. Don’t want to share that one with everybody! Or you can change your video to “public” so everyone can see how great of a time you had at the Superbowl.
Where did this hunger for accessing information and constantly knowing what’s happening around the globe come from? It started with the written word, of course, and soon it was necessary that all articles have some sort of picture to go with them. Then TV came along and we could see the written word had come to life on the big screen. Our desire for an all access view of the world was only heightened with the advent of the Internet. So, what’s the big deal about the Internet? Well, it’s immediate, it’s all access, and it’s raw. Now you can find out what’s going on around the corner or around the world with a click on the mouse. It used to be that something published yesterday was old news, but now it seems that something published ten minutes ago is old news. With every website, whether it is about the news, sports, interviews, etc. are using videos and pictures to supplement the written word. It seems only logical that this addiction to being constantly updated and in-the-know would evolve to include live video. People are sick of choice words and over-edited videos on the Internet. People scramble to see the newest and most scandalous videos on YouTube before they are taken off. We want it now and we want it real. This is where Flixwagon comes in. By arming everyday people, newscasters, politicians, musicians, artists, etc. with live mobile broadcast capabilities, people can stay updated in ways that have never been possible before. This is live. This is real mobile broadcasting with no edits, no directors, no nothing; just the truth of what’s happening. Jeff Jarvis brought up an interesting point in his blog when he said that:
That’s what we want. The next step is implementing live mobile broadcasting on every website. How else can you display a story faster? A journalist can’t even write the story that fast, forget about a good story. But honestly, who needs the words when you can see what’s happening, as its happening and form your own opinion? Hi all, This week, Flixwagon is participating in the Carnival of the Mobilists! For those of you who haven't visited the Carnival of Mobilists, the Carnival brings you to the very best posts of the previous week, all written about mobile and gathered together in a central place. Each week, it is hosted at a different site, so you can visit the Carnival and experience both new writers about mobile, as well as all your old favourites.This week's Carnival is set up at Andrew Grill's blog, bringing you the best of the week, so go a head! Enjoy :)
Good news for all bloggers and website owners!
Ok, so now you want it, how do you get it? Update, March-20: Flixwagon users: 1. After you login, simply go to MyPage and check the FliXee promotion on the right side and click on ‘Get FliXee’. Non-Flixwagn users: You should first register to Flixwagon. After you receive the invitation link, signup and install the application on your mobile. Now you're ready to add the FliXee widget to your web page. As always, if you have any questions or need help - you can contact us through feedback@flixwagon.com Enjoy!
As always, we are working on our next release with lots of goodies. Release features are heavily based on user feedbacks..and some on what we have in mind. I encourage all of you flixers to use our feedback form or simply mail to feedback@flixwagon.com with what you think we should improve or add. We read every word. Really.
Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News published a video interview featuring Eran Hess, Flixwagon's Co-Founder and CEO. The interview was taken at the BBC's Television Centre, right in front of the live News 24 studio. Apart from the great interview with Eran, Rory raises an important question:
Let me rephrase the question a little to make my point:
This probably sounds familiar to those of you who have been long enough around the blogosphere. So my answer to "what would happen?" is that change would happen. It means that we will probably witness the proliferation of the new technology, bringing alongside huge amounts of video contents with it. At first, we might be swamped, just like before everyone learned how to use Technorati and Google Blog Search to sort through all the blogs out there. Later, we will probably find our way (using new recommendation tools, directories and so on) and find new talents and new forms that couldn't have managed to get under the spotlight any other way. As for a 'walking with my dog' video, every new technology enables content generators the freedom of creation while the consumers need to sort and find what they like. This rule has been applied to books, music, TV shows, blogs, why not live video content? Also, even a 'walking with my dog' video will probably be relevant to someone, it may be my immediate circle of friends, dog lovers and people who want to get closer to me (potential dates etc').
Hi guys, Don't miss it! There are live broadcasts from SXSW brought to you by a talented group of bloggers using Flixwagon. Here is a short preview of the treats you can find at our special event page: Pete Cashmore broadcasting Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web. while Marshall is broadcasting Pete: Sarah Meyers interviewing Robert Scoble about his party Good news to all Twitters among you! You can now update your followers on Twitter about your live Flixwagon broadcasts! Simply go to Flixwagon.com, press Settings > Twitter and enter your Twitter account settings.
Also, you can twitter about a stored video you are watching. Simply press the Twitter logo in the player, insert your Twitter account info (if you haven't done it by now) and voila!
To all of those who can't attend the SXSW conference - we have good news for you! A team of 6 bloggers will be broadcasting live from the conference. Their broadcast can be seen both here and in their own blogs. This is our dream team:
We are happy to share that a new version of the Flixwagon mobile application has been released! All Flixwagon users among you are invited to update their mobile application to improve performance. To update your Flixwagon client, simply sign in to Flixwagon.com, go to “Account” and press “resend SMS”. If you want to broadcast live and you haven't signed up yet, feel free to register here and we will send you an invitation.
Since many of you have asked, I'm posting it here for the benefit of all of our users: When broadcasting with Flixwagon, the Nokia N95 device can be held either vertically or horizontally depending on your mood. Let your artistic side show by broadcasting the Hawaiian sunset holding the phone horizontally to capture the beautiful landscape. How? Simply choose your favorite orientation before opening the application. We're also working on enabling using the orientation on all other supported devices.
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