Category: Streaming and Multi-Media

Television goes Social (on the internet)

eVoke TV – eVoke TV Corp.
Very nice.. Enter into chat rooms, see what others are talking about, clap and so on.. Very interesting..

From the site:
eVoke TV helps connect you to your preferred TV programming by providing Web-based “TV listings” with a better user experience.
We are using Web 2.0 techniques to transform the static nature of TV Listings into a dynamic forum connecting TV watchers to the wealth of content available on the internet. We intend to serve the growing population of broadband internet users who are connected to the Web while watching television programming.

Their blog: http://evoketv.blogspot.com/

Shoot, Mix and Share Video

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Just came upon this interesting new platform for online video editing. Flash based and targeted to non-video folk. I like the MMS submission process for mobile users and blog publishing though I wish it created a feed for use in things like FireANT. Guess that is a bit hard when everything is Flash video based.

From the site:
Shoot, Mix, and Share your Video.
Use the eyespot Mixer to combine your videos, photos and music. Share your video and mixes with the world for Free.

Video BOMB (down) or Rocket (up)

Video Bomb – Front Page
From the site:
Video Bomb is a community site where people filter up the best videos on the internet. It’s creates a democratically chosen flow of internet TV.

Interesting but I still have to ask Why? The top material on the internet has no trouble being distributed. Perhaps there should be a threshold system where we only see the videos that haven’t hit a certain level but are above some other level…

FlashMeeting

FlashMeeting – The One Click Videoconference
Despite my early resistance to all things Flash, this application is very nice. I had a chance to participate in a Flash Meeting today and actually enjoyed it. Definitely a far cry from the days of CuSeeMe ;-)

The one strange thing is the cue to talk. I would prefer that it was a bit more conversational and therefore I felt more natural in the chat room than talking into my mic.