Mobile video of the Apple iPad

Leo Laporte's mobile video of the Flash-less Apple iPad is up already, and coming live and/or in pieces at Qik, http://qik.com/twit. For more on Qik and related info, see Live video from iPhone... There’s now apps for that.

Update: Everyone is broadcasting pieces. CNN Live -- in delay! -- is working big and has good quality. Also, Twit.tv is up and down but big, but there's also nickarodriguez mobile on Qik.

Finally, Apple has the event recording posted.

But wait, there's more:

Jim Feeley adds "engadget's coverage of the iPad announcement is much much better than that of either the New York Times or Macworld. It's a new era... jasondiamond: MCGrawHill CEO must be at the bottom of a lake in cement iShoes by now. #iPad #Leak

5tu: If nothing else, I think the #iPad would make a terrific control surface for Magic Bullet Looks. Videoguys: iPad - can we attach it to a 5D as field monitor? Or use 3G/wifi to enter metadata and clip info as we record?

Live video from iPhone... There’s now apps for that

NewTeeVee posted an overview of activity by Ustream and others for live video on the iPhone in Live Broadcasting From Your iPhone? There’s (Finally) an App for That.

Of course there's still no video chat, but Ustream's app is free and doesn't need to be jailbroken.

There's broader detail of live video for mobile devices in some earlier AEP overviews: Broadcasting live video from phone and Mobile video reporting increasingly important, Overview of live video over the internet, and Live video streaming tips + marketing.

Update: from NewTeeVee, "Following on the heels of similar announcements from Ustream and Bambuser, Qik’s application for live video streaming on the Apple iPhone has finally been approved...Ustream also enables live video streaming through 2G, 3G, and 3GS iPhones."

Live video streaming tips + marketing

via News Videographer, the blog Innovation in College Media has a post with thorough tips for doing live streaming video using Mogulus; see Mogulus live streaming tips.

The post includes reasons why they used Mogulus over Ustream; for more see Ustream vs. Mogulus: Which Live Video Streaming And Broadcasting Service Is Better? at MasterNewMedia.

Still unanswered is Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video? And now, there's an added question of how much of this will be from mobile phones -- see this AEP note from last August, Broadcasting live video from phone.

Lifehacker tips sometimes help me shove off free tech support requests from friends. Here's a one that helped: Strobist's How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam Picture Quality.

Update: P Diddy adopted live video with Ustream.tv as a way to drive his audience, according to Mashable and Watching TV Online.

Also, Ustream has "signed Oracle, Duke, Sun, UC Berkeley and Sling as customers for its paid white-label live video service, called Watershed, which launched only a month ago," according to NewTeeVee. Liz Gannes continues, "The company is also adding mobile broadcasting capabilities, which it released to consumer users a few weeks ago. While many broadcasters might be interested in white-label mobile broadcasting, at this point the Ustream/Watershed service is limited to high-end Nokia handsets. Competitors in the consumer space like Qik have moved onto other platforms, such as BlackBerry and Windows Mobile."

Update: Promotional notes in comments are fine, but they should address specifics in the particular post and link to web pages of specific concern.

Mobile video news reporting increasingly

Following reports of services like Qik, Livecast, and Flixwagon for broadcasting live video from mobile phones, Poynter Online reports that the Washington Post and Newsweek started posting live video reports via phone during the Democratic Convention.

A Post rep told Beet.TV, "We will be using cell phones equipped with a live streaming application from Comet Technologies," and built complete TV studios at the conventions for continuous coverage from reporters and blogging guests.

Poynter.org also covers How Online Video Improves Journalism, a talk with the Washington Post's Travis Fox, a leader in online video storytelling. Blogs have been covering this beat, including Andy Dickinson and News Videographer.

Poynter's most e-mailed post right now is Video SLR Camera Coming From Nikon, which has also been covered by Prolost and others recently!

Update: Camcorder.info adds advice in Camcorder Overkill for Print Reporters.

Update 2: From the YouTube Blog, "in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report (www.youtube .com /projectreport), a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO and Intel) for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be covered by traditional media"

Broadcasting live video from phone

Broadcasting live video from a cellular phone seems like it'll hit big soon. Someone did live podcasting from a Flash conference last year with a Nokia device I think, but I lost the reference and froze perhaps in fear of being Scobilized.

Now the LA Times is reporting on investments in Qik, "a service which is championed by celebrity technology blogger Robert Scoble, has gained in popularity particularly as it adds new features such as integration with Twitter, YouTube, Mogulus, MySpace, Orkut and Justin.tv. Qik is used by a wide array of users, called Qikkers, including both professional and citizen journalists." The video below is from Qik (on "jailbroken" iPhone support); Beet.TV has an interview with a Qik rep.

Similar services include the Silverlight-oriented Livecast (was Pocketcaster) and Flixwagon, which is covering Nokia and like Qik "jailbroken" iPhones.



Update: Poynter Online reports that the Washington Post and Newsweek started posting live video reports via phone during the Democratic Convention. A Post rep told Beet.TV, "We will be using cell phones equipped with a live streaming application from Comet Technologies," and built complete TV studios at the conventions for continuous coverage from reporters and blogging guests.

This should change with more smart phones, like iPhone 3.0.

Update: NewTeeVee adds another player to the list, Aylus Networks, in One to Watch: Aylus Mobile Video.

Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash

AppleInsider has a 3 part series (with lively comments) on the jockeying for control over the mobile, Web, and desktop platforms; see a previous post on platform plays for background.

Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash [Part 1 of 3]
Flash Wars: The Many Enemies and Obstacles of Flash [Part 2 of 3]
Flash Wars: Adobe Fights for AIR with the Open Screen Project [Part 3 of 3]

The articles ignore Silverlight/Live Mesh, Google, and JavaFX for the most part; here's something new in JavaFX from the conference in San Francisco via RIA pundit Ryan Stewart:

Update: Slashdot reports on "a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language and a first step towards Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content." ...and Create Digital Motion provides additional background and realism.

Microsoft licenses Adobe’s Flash Lite

Kinda funny after Steve Jobs' comments, Microsoft licenses Adobe’s Flash Lite. see ZDNet's The motives in a nutshell, and TechCrunch. Here's an interview from Beet.TV's Strange Bedfellows: Microsoft's Silverlight to Stream On Adobe's Flash Light 3:



Also, from Beet.TV a recent demo, Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones:



Update: Beet.TV added another part of the same interview, where Brian Frank "explains how Flash became ubiquitous on mobile phones in Japan starting five years ago:"

Mobi-lize video resources

Frank Capria has a nice post on Mobile video resources, especially on Mobi-lize from the people at Studio Daily.


Frank also has a good discussion of the Limits of self-definition and a link to a nice article from a BoxesandArrows.com Lessons From Failure series that uses the now denuded Easter Island as a metaphor for personal reinvention.

Embedding video, plus iPhone video & Flash

John Dowdell notes advice from BBC interactive for in-page video attractiveness, while HD for Indies considers Making Content for the iPhone.

And it looks like Apple might be adding Flash to the iPhone according to the WSJ; see Next iPhone generation will support Flash. There's also plenty of other iPhone developments, like the free iPhoneDevCamp held at Adobe in San Francisco the weekend of July 6, Apple on Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone,and The AIR iPhone an AIR application that could possibly for fun be ported to FlashLite to work on cheap handsets.

Update: 8 Coolest iPhone Apps at iPhoneDevCamp plus iPhoneDevCamp Walkthrough.

Update 2: No BS iPhone Review from Gizmodo via HD forIndies.

iPhone no Flash

Not a complete surprise but the iPhone will not render Flash on it's Safari browser, according to Adobe developer relations for mobile and devices. Flash must not be as good as Quicktime!

Update: I should leave it to the experts...it looks like Apple might be adding Flash to the iPhone according to the WSJ; see Next iPhone generation will support Flash.

There's also plenty of other developments, like the free iPhoneDevCamp held at Adobe in San Francisco the weekend of July 6, Apple on Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone,and The AIR iPhone an AIR application that possibly could be ported to FlashLite to work on cheap handsets.

Nokia and Adobe team up to offer video editing pack

from ITP.net:

"Nokia has teamed up with Adobe to prepare a new standard sales pack that comprises the former firms’ Nokia N93 mobile phone device and Adobe’s Premiere Elements 2.0 software for Windows XP."