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web 2.0: June 2008 Archives
The Flixwagon store is now open for business in the U.S, UK, and EU. Get your Flixwagon t-shirt, hat, or bag today:
http://flixwagon.spreadshirt.com  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. We're happy to announce that our development team at the Flixwagon lab has successfully streamed the first-ever live high-quality video from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon's alpha client.
While we don't condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK supports video. We're going to continue working with the iPhone SDK in the future so we can offer this functionality to all users once video becomes a standard part of the iPhone.
After Flixwagon is installed on the phone, users can broadcast videos with one click to the flixwagon website. Videos can be watched live or saved for later. Also, videos can be embedded in blogs via our flixee widget or uploaded to the user's YouTube account. Users can also easily determine which of their contacts to share each video with.
We'll release the iPhone version to our Alpha testers in July. In the mean time, if you want to sign up for Flixwagon or get updates on future roll-outs and supported mobile devices, click here. Also, feel free to follow us on Twitter for continuous updates. Finally, check out the iPhone demo below:
Demo of iPhone Streaming Live Video via Flixwagon:
Video broadcast by an iPhone:
Continue reading From the Flixwagon Lab, First-Ever: iPhone Broadcasts Live Video.
We're happy to announce that flixwagon was nominated for MobileBeat 2008: VentureBeat's top mobile applications competition. The competition looks at the most innovative and promising technologies in the mobile space. Help us win the competition! Venturebeat is a well known technology blog, and winning the competition can help flixwagon gain more visibility, grow faster, and achieve certain goals ahead of schedule like rolling out new exciting features and supporting additional phones. The competition is set up in a way that each registered voter can cast up to 5 votes -- one vote in every 24 hours (we know... took us a few minutes to to figure it out too). So if you'd like to give us your 5 votes, feel free to login once a day and submit your votes. All of us at Flixwagon would very much appreciate it! So here's what you'll need to do to vote for Flixwagon: 1. sign-up for a voting login ID here: http://venturebeat.com/wp-login.php?action=register 2. After you sign-up, access the voting page here and vote for flixwagon: http://venturebeat.com/mobilebeat-2008/companies/ (Flixwagon is in the 'Applications Companies' category). 3. you can return to the voting page every 24 hours up to five times to submit additional votes. Voting ends on June 24, 2008, so make sure you cast all five votes by then. Thanks and we'll keep you posted on how it goes. Flixwagon
Attention Bebo users: we just created our Bebo profile and group. Feel free to add us and let us what kind of content you'd like us to post.
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