Date: 2008-03-23 09:23 Subject: Video on the Net Security: Public Tags: maxroam, qik, seesmic, ustream.tv, video, von, vonx08

At VON last week it seemed that everywhere I went there were people videoing and taking snaps, and a lot of this material has been tagged and blogged, and facebooked and flickr'ed and is available online.  Jeff Pulver suggested the tag VONX08, so use this if you're searching on Technorati or some such, this is what to look for.

One particular phenomenon this year is QIK.  This is a service that allows you to live stream (via 3G, GPRS or WiFi) up to the server, where QIK users can view live online, and then the video is stored so that you can tag it and leave it for posterity.  Jeff used this to good effect a number of times, for example at his social media breakfast, but several people also caught Ken Camp proposing to Sheryl Brooker, which Maxroam's  Pat Phelan has posted on his blog.  QIK is also enjoying attention from Robert Scoble at the moment, who appeared on stage with Jeff and some other video service companies like Ustream.tv and Seesmic.  Scoble was videoing the session from his place on the podium, and althoug I haven't found it yet, I imagine that this is also online.

I dabbled with QIK myself (this works nicely on Nokia smartphones), and uploaded a couple of short videos from the VoIP User dinner.