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.

Date: 2008-03-17 23:19 Subject: Spring VON.x 2008 Security: Public Tags: von.x, vonx08

VON opens tomorrow, but we already had some events in the pre-conference day.  The day started out with one of Jeff Pulver's social media breakfasts: great fun tagging each other with stickers.  Yes, not just RSS tags, but real bits of sticky paper.  A great crowd there this morning, and several people remarked to me that the Brits were dominating the room.  I'm not sure about that but there were James Body and Dean Elwood of Truphone, Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis, and Lee Dryburgh, fresh from his successes at the newly reborn Ecomm conference.
It was great to meet some old friends, as well as some people that I know through the social media, but only this week in person for the first time: Ken Camp & Sheryl Breuker, Luca Filigheddu, Phoneboy, and Stuart Henshall.  Jeff asked if the Brits will be ready for a Pulver breakfast in London?  I think so... this is a great networking initiative.

I went to a couple of the sessions on OpenSER at the preconference, and then also got to see my friend Jonathan Zar for lunch.  Jonathan is always a great conversationalist.   The other half of the Blue Box podcast team, Dan York, is over at the other coast doing VoiceCon this week.

I'm exhausted already, but there are more events to come later in the afternoon.