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Comparing Live Streaming Sites Qik and Flixwagon

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Over on All About Symbian this morning is a lengthy article comparing two of the services that let you stream live video from your smartphone to the world, namely Qik vs Flixwagon. Rather than quote the article (which I normally do), here’s my thoughts on both of them… Flixwagon… Qik… Oh and why no Kyte.tv? Simple really, their applciation was java based, while Qik and Flixwagon were native C++ code on Symbian. And the site is call All About Symbian. Yeah it’s flimsy, but head to head is kinda tough with three!

Scoble’s Twitter Interview Misses The Point

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…but not for the reason you might think. You see, this isn’t a post about the content of Robert Scoble’s interview with the Twitter team of Ev Williams and Biz Stone over the weekend – after all it’s a simple fact of life that the world goes round, the sky is blue, and Twitter goes down just as conversations get interesting – but more about the how the interview was recorded and the feedback he recorded. Setting the scene is pretty important, and I’ll hand this bit over to Scoble himself: I wasn’t expecting to do a video interview. I

Top Five Mobile Video Publishing Tools

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I’ve posted a look at some of the sites that allow video to be posted from your mobile to the web over on All About Symbian. Here’s a quick taster of what I cover in the article. From the streaming side of things there is… Qik (www.qik.com) “Look for Qik to continue to iron out bugs and open up for unfettered access at some point later this year. For all the buzz, it is one of the most polished options so far.” Flixwagon (www.flixwagon.com) “The early adopter nature of video streaming means that there are not a huge number of