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Recently in event CategoryAriel Atka, a 5 year old girl from the town of Ra’anana in Israel, needed to undergo a rare and risky surgery to save her life. Her parents, both classical trumpet players, gathered 60 premier classical musicians, who volunteered from all over Israel, and performed in a concert that was broadcast live on the internet to help fundraising efforts. Ariel Atka suffers from a serious condition known as Cortical Dysplasia and needed to undergo urgent brain surgery in Toronto, Canada to save her life. The risky and complex surgery was a staggering $350,000 USD, so her parents, both of whom are professional trumpet musicians, decided to raise the needed funds through music - their other love. Part of the funds were raised by selling a self produced audio CD, where both the parents and their colleagues played select classical pieces. In response to a YNET article - the father, who wrote several of the musical scores himself, said: "Ariel gave me the greatest gift in my life - the ability to write music and connect with my emotions through it..." To complete the remainder of the needed funds, on January 29th 2010, the parents gathered 60 leading classical musicians from around the country to a performance that was broadcast live on the internet, and enabled viewers to donate to the cause by SMS. The parents, who were not willing to compromise on the quality of the broadcast, chose Flixwagon to provide an inexpensive yet quality broadcast directly from the performance hall to the internet. Five standard Nokia N95 handsets were positioned in the performance hall and in Ariel's house to capture and broadcast the concert in real time to a special dedicated website. One of the handsets was connected directly to the audio console of the venue itself to ensure the classical performance were streamed at the optimal sound quality. Other handsets broadcast the concert from backstage and also captured audience reaction, both before and after the concert. The event, which enabled the first ever, live mobile phone broadcast concert, garnered mainstream media attention and produced the desired effect by raising funds well beyond the target. The surgery was carried out successfully, and Ariel is now in recovery and rehabilitation. For more information please visit:
Some fun news today from Flixwagon, so let's jump right in:
1. New Mobile Client: We've just released our new Symbian mobile client, which offers substantially improved video and audio quality. Also, depending on what version you're currently running, you may discover these new features we added over the past few months: auto-check for future updates, manually posting on twitter and YouTube, 2-way chat and more. Get the latest version via your mobile browser from m.flixwagon.com/nokia. Also, iPhone users, make sure you're running the most current version by refreshing your sources on Cydia or Installer. 2. Sharing and Notifications: We’ve changed the privacy settings on flixwagon.com so that now you can send an encoded direct link to private flix without requiring your viewers to log in (please note though: this also means that whoever you share your flix with can forward those links to others!) Additional changes include adding the video thumbnail in email notifications. To add your contacts, create groups, and set sharing alerts: log in to flixwagon.com, go to Contacts → My Contacts. Also, check out this video tutorial on how to manage your sharing settings. 3. More Tutorials: and speaking of tutorials, check out our additional demos on how to change the user details generated via Express Registration, and how to share flix on YouTube and Twitter. And speaking of Twitter, check out the new customizable default twitter message via Settings → Twitter. 4. Folio Mag: Following Conde Nast's Brides.com recent fashion show coverage using Flixwagon, here's what Folio Mag had to say about us (third part of the story): http://www.foliomag.com/2008/technologies-look-2009
Check out the following blog post from NewTeeVee with comments by Facebook and MySpace execs from GigaOM's Mobilize Conference. Both sound bullish on mobile video, with Facebook VP of Growth for Mobile and International Chamath Palihapitiya mentioning services like Flixwagon as the "next logical place to go" and adding: "that’s really cool stuff. To the extent that we can enable people to upload directly and then share that with their friends, I think that’s very powerful."
http://newteevee.com/2008/09/18/mobile-video-is-next-for-myspace-facebook/ 
In another example of MTV utilizing Flixwagon for covering live events using mobile phones, check out MTV's live Flixwagon videos from the Video Music Awards press conference at Paramount Studios in Hollywood: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2008/09/04/2008-mtv-vma-press-conference/
Flixwagon was just announced as a finalist in Streaming Media's Readers' Choice Awards 2008 in the Mobile Video Platform category. The winner will be announced during the awards ceremony on September 24. Thanks to all Streaming Media readers who voted for us and to Streaming Media Magazine!
Finalists list: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=10646 Also, check out our previous post about our very own Sarig Reichert's interview with Streaming Media Magazine about Flixwagon. 
Following several successful projects with Flixwagon, MTV yesterday deployed a number of street reporters armed with Flixwagon-equipped mobile phones to cover the National Democratic Convention in Denver. A similar number of reporters will also be on the scene using Flixwagon at the upcoming Republican National Convention.
The street reporters are making live videos throughout the four days of the convention from their mobile phones directly to their pages on the MTV Think website, in another installment of MTV's Choose or Lose campaign. The street reporters can easily broadcast live video and capture the atmosphere of the conventions in real-time without the need for large camera crews or bulky equipment. The official release is here. Some of the videos and street reporters can be found here: http://think.mtv.com/profile/trevorFmartin http://think.mtv.com/profile/cgeraci25 http://think.mtv.com/profile/MiGoNev http://think.mtv.com/profile/janeflemingkleeb http://think.mtv.com/Issues/politics 
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Great news: Flixwagon is now available for iPhone 3G and for original iPhones running firmware 2.0.1!
After being first to broadcast from iPhones back in June, and first to launch our public iPhone app for 1.1.4 in July, we're now releasing our app for iPhone 3G and original iPhone 2.0.x. This means we now support all iPhone models and firmware! To install you'll need an 'opened' iPhone with either Cydia or Installer. Simply open Cydia or Installer, make sure all your versions and resources are up-to-date, and then install Flixwagon from the multimedia folder (under 'Sections' in Cydia, or 'Categories' in Installer 4. You can also find it under the iSpazio directory). Special thanks to Fabiano from iSpazio.net for all the great help with Cydia and Installer!  Flixwagon iPhone Broadcast Screen Advantages:
 Choose between sharper resolution or more frames per second
Edit video details and sharing preferences on the fly
If you're using iPhone 1.1.4 of older check out info for your phone. Please note, the iPhone apps (1.1.4 and 2.0.1) are both in Alpha, and are used primarily for us to learn and experiment more with the iPhone platform. Feel free to email us comments or feedback about the alpha app at feedback [at] flixwagon [dot] com. Once the iPhone SDK supports native video we expect to develop an app for the new official app store. We don't encourage 'opening' or 'jailbreaking' iPhones and users do so at their own risk.
36 hours, 600 clips, over 6 Million video streams, 60,000 hours of video viewed, 90,000 user comments, at least 2 clips per hour on air during commercial breaks on MTV over the weekend, three 30-minute compilations on TV -- shot entirely on mobile phones, over a dozen locations including backstage at Madison Square Garden, and 3 Jonas Brothers. These are some of the stats from MTV's Jonas Brothers event this past weekend using Flixwagon. We knew this was going to be our biggest event to-date, but it surpassed even our wildest expectations. For example, according to MTV, the latest season finale of reality show The Hills got 5 Million video streams during its first 3 days. The Jonas Bros event pulled in more traffic in a much shorter period of time, and consisted of live videos made via mobile phones -- making this the biggest live mobile video event in the world to-date that we know of. The official press release is here.
As mentioned last week, we provided MTV with the Flixwagon platform to cover the Jonas Brothers tour of their new album “A Little Bit Longer”. Throughout the 36-hour event, a number of MTV bloggers and reporters made live videos directly to the MTV site and TV studio using mobile phones running the Flixwagon application. The videos showed the Jonas Brothers as they traveled and prepared for their concerts and even showed some candid moments like the brothers reacting emotionally to some items on the news. Even the brothers themselves carried one of the phones and made several live videos throughout the event. 
MTV Website with the Flixwagon video player, showing Kevin Jonas making a live mobile video using Flixwagon Apart from the successful event itself, what we’re also extremely happy about is that we were able to show again how the Flixwagon platform can scale and be customized to fit different types of live broadcasts, in terms of number of concurrent broadcasters, web video streams, and streaming from mobile phones to internet and/or television. All the videos are available exclusively on the MTV site here: http://jonasbros.mtv.com.
Some very exciting news today: for the first time in a music event of such a
scale, MTV will use Flixwagon to broadcast live video feeds from
numerous mobile phones to the web and TV from the Jonas Brothers tour
of their new album this weekend. This is great news, not
only because it's the biggest event by a band of this level of fame to
receive continuous live mobile video coverage of their tour on and off
stage, but also because we're expecting our highest-ever traffic of any
single event to-date!
 Jonas Brother in Concert (Source: Official Jonas Brothers Flickr) During the event, a number of MTV bloggers/reporters will broadcast live videos from their 3G mobile phones to the MTV website and TV channel using Flixwagon while they tour with the tween sensations. The videos will give a personal peak behind the scenes of the Jonas Brothers in real time as they travel and get ready for their shows in Jones Beach and Madison Square Garden. The best Flixwagon clips will also be broadcast on MTV's TV channel during commercial breaks, as well as during two special 30-minute compilation programs. Also, viewers on MTV.com will be able to comment on videos and chat with the bloggers and other viewers.  We've been providing MTV with live mobile broadcasting solutions for some time, for example with their live citizen journalist coverage of the Super Tuesday Primaries, but this one should be a record breaker for us in terms of number of videos, viewers, and general fun to be had. Coverage on both MTV and MTV.com will start on Friday, August 8th 2008 at 4pm ET/PT and run through Saturday August 9th at 10pm ET/PT. Feel free to check out all videos on http://jonasbros.mtv.com. MTV will also show select clips during commercial breaks on MTV Friday and Saturday, and on two compilation shows on Saturday August 9th at 2pm and 10pm. The MTV bloggers will be carrying mobile phones with the Flixwagon application that allows them to broadcast live video with one click to the web and TV studio (without any bulky equipment or cumbersome file transfers). The entire mobile broadcast is powered by the Flixwagon platform. Hope you get a chance to watch the live broadcasts, and feel free to give us your feedback or contact us with any questions. Here's some more info from MTV's Buzzworthy blog: http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2008/08/07/jonas-brothers-are-about-to-get-live-mobile-and-were-going-along-for-the-ride/  Join us this coming Thursday (August 7th,10:45AM at the Pace Plaza in NYC) to watch our very own Sarig Reichert participate in the "The New Mobile Paradigm" panel during the Web 2.0 Conference! Sarig will be speaking along with respected peers from MeetMoi.com and MotionBox.com. We look forward to the open and engaging discussion. Hope to see you there! For more information, please visit here
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