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Look who was a guest at the Pop17 show!

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:

"What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own live television station from a mobile phone? So I could broadcast something as banal as my walk with the dog, or citizens could go live in conflict zones?"

Let me rephrase the question a little to make my point:

What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own blog/online news site on the internet? So I could cover something as banal as my walk with the dog, or citizens could go live in conflict zones?

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'). 

 

Killer Start Ups just posted a very positive review of Flixwagon:

"Why it might be a killer:
Flixawagon.com has an attractive interface and a cool logo. The site is easy to navigate and has a very thorough and helpful help section. It is nice that users can become each others fans and keep track of each others new videos."

[via Killer Start Ups]

There is also a nice poll and voting so if you think Flixwagon is a killer strat up - please vote for us here :)

David Adewumi of VenturaBeat published a new post covering 14 ways to broadcast yourself live. Flixwagon received a very positive review:

"The Good. Video seems to have higher quality than competitor Qik. Users can edit video info from their phone.

Users don’t lose precious moments of broadcasts, thanks to a feature that stores video and saves for later viewing. Users can also broadcast alerts to friends and family and automatically upload their video to YouTube or Facebook."

 

[via VentureBeat]

Thanks David!

 

Hooray! Another positive review of Flixwagon. This time SMS Text News, one of the leading UK based blogs covering mobile news has written the following:

 

 "Flixwagon’s edge seems to be much higher quality and the ability to upload to a blog. Flixwagon apparently will have a Java version, in addition to the Symbian client, and hopes to also support phone-to-phone video sharing. Personally, THAT will be cool to me."

[via SMS Text News]

 

Thanks Ricky!

Summarizing the year of 2007, Orli Yakuel of Go2Web2.0 has listed Israeli start ups that she

"feels most strongly about and believes in their success".

[via Go2Web2.0]

We were very proud to see Flixwagon among the promising start ups!  You can see the entire list in thumbnails below. Also, don't miss the slideshow with posts from the blogsphere that Orli created.

 

Thanks Orli!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[via Go2Web2.0]

A Double party for Flixwagon! Liz Gannes from NewTeeVee covered Flixwagon as well:

"If you’re going to bare your soul via a live video stream, what better way to do it than by using your ever-present cell phone to both shoot and send?
Flixwagon’s proposed offerings are similar to those of Qik, but include the promise of better picture quality and compatibility with a larger number of phones. Users will be able to stream live video from their cell phones to the web — and eventually, if all goes well, other cell phones. The company has developed versions for both Symbian and Java, but it really requires 3G to get it right."

[Via NewTeeVee]

Thanks Liz!

In case you missed the Flixwagon coverage at TechCrunch, Roi Carthy met the Flixwagon team and was very excited about our service:

"I had a chance to see FlixWagon in action on a few occasions and was impressed by video that came out on

the Web clearer than I expected. I also saw videos uploaded using the same mobile handset to both Qik and FlixWagon. Subjectively speaking, I felt that FlixWagon was superior. This was true both in video clarity and its ability to deal with movement—quality was degraded substantially on Qik when the handset was moved even slightly. FlixWagon is claiming that this is due to the emphasis it places on ensuring that a user never loses a second of broadcast, even in the most challenging conditions inherent to mobile environments. For example, if a user goes into an elevator, basement, or loses reception for any reason, the broadcast will resume when reception is back and the full video will be stored and available for later viewing."

[via TechCrunch]

Kudos! Thanks Roi :)