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Flixwagon was created on the idea that capturing and sharing video should be fast and easy. We realized that existing ways to share video were too cumbersome and that there was a better way. This is why we started Flixwagon.

Our friends at Boxee are also trying to change the world, but with a very different focus. Boxee is building the ultimate social media center which we believe can change the way people consume and share digital content at home. Boxee allows users to easily consume and share video, photos, and music from various sources on their computers and TVs, interact with their friends around this content, and more.  We think this is a huge leap from anything that's out there today.

Boxee just came out with their alpha for mac. We encourage you to sign up for their alpha plan, download, and get ready for an entirely new and exciting media center experience.

http://boxee.tv

Kim Kardashian of E!'s reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians started using Flixwagon to stream live videos from her cell phone to her blog. Check it out to get real-time behind-the-scenes videos of Kim's life:

http://www.officialkimkardashian.com/2008/06/live-behindthescenes-of-family.php

Most bloggers have already covered all the Mobile World Congress news, new gadgets, who attended which event and how the hell didn't they had enough bandwidth for 60,000 mobile phones and laptops?! How can we communicate with no means?! Also many have already blogged about who had goodies, who had nice giveaways, and most important who offered free coffee and water... (the lines for a bad coffee were impressive!). 

Here are my off-topic observations:

1) 99.9% of the attendees wore dark grey or black suits. The only variations were the color of the thin stripes.

2) Mobile techies don't push and they stand in a nice long line with no complaints.

3) Most mobile techies are men. Try to spot a woman here:

4) Business cards - you never take enough with you :)

5) After so many hours on feet, we will drink whatever coffee we can find. Any. (and accidentally spell it on my N95 and improve its performance. Try it on your own risk).

6) High heels are bad for you. Bad. Very bad.

But Barcelona is more than a huge amount of black and grey suits. This is the city of best parties and good food! The big question is - do mobile techies know how to party? I was reluctant but decided to put it to the test. In order to examine it thoroughly, I went out each night with different people, and each night I found myself in at least 2 parties,

My answer is YES.

From a lot of beers at the BelChica with the MobileSunday gang (no 3G network there, sory), through Swedish Beers, some private parties with bloggers and demo and marketing delegations, yes, mobile techies know how to have a good time! :)

And here's a treat for those of you who couldn't join - some flix from the Blackberry party

This one is a little off-topic... it was so cool I decided to post it here anyways. I was going through my rss reader and found this at Lifehacker:

"Free application ASCGEN, or Ascii Generator dotNET, takes in standard pictures and puts out images generated entirely from simple computer text."

[via Lifehacker]

Downloading and installing took me about a moment and I took it for a test-drive (with an old pic of my Dad and me). Check out the results: