Live from Your Mobile with FlixWagon

Rory Cellan-Jones from BBC News recently asked, "What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own live television station from a mobile phone? So I could broadcast something as banal as my walk with the dog, or citizens could go live in conflict zones?"

He posed this question in his March 10th post Live from Your Mobile on BBC's technology blog dot.life, and after several days of experimenting with Flixwagon he concluded, "The difficult thing to work out is - what is the point? Yes, you can see my live dog-walk - but do you really want to?"

On The Flixwagon Blog, Xen Mendelsohn responded to Cellan-Jones' skepticism by rephrasing his question to make a point asking, "What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own blog/online news site on the internet? So I could cover something as banal as my walk with the dog, or citizens could go live in conflict zones?"

Cellan-Jones discussed Flixwagon and live mobile webcasting with Eran Hess, Flixwagon's Co-Founder and CEO in the video interview featured below (courtesy of BBC News.) Hess explains that with Flixwagon it’s easy to produce video and broadcast it live anywhere and only it's only “one click away.”

Cellan-Jones asked "So, who really wants to go live?" Hess insisted "People do." and added that you can communicate instantly and upload video immediately without the need to transfer video to your PC and upload it to YouTube. Mobile video makes it easy to express yourself and build a social networking community. Regarding the competition Hess asserted that Flixwagon has the best video quality and that will be an important factor when choosing between platforms. He wasn't worried about YouTube and said, "YouTube going live is an opportunity – not a threat. The whole idea of live is getting validation.”

Going back to Cellan-Jones' original question "what would happen?", Xen Mendelsohn emphasized that "change would happen. It means that we will probably witness the proliferation of the new technology, bringing alongside huge amounts of video contents with it... even a 'walking with my dog' video will probably be relevant to someone, it may be my immediate circle of friends, dog lovers and people who want to get closer to me..."


Rory Cellan-Jones acknowledged that "a phone and a piece of software - and a 3g network - are you all need now to start putting your message across to a live audience. It promises to give new vigour to the whole idea of citizen journalism, and poses a challenge to existing broadcasters. Because of course these citizen journalists are not bound by any code of taste, decency, truth or impartiality, which could give their broadcasts a dangerous, edgy quality which might appeal more to viewers than the professional version of television news.Welcome to a future where everything may be televised - live. I'm not entirely sure I like the idea."

Related:

• Flixwagon Adds Mobile App and Twitter Integration - March 6, 2008 by Kristen Nicole from Mashable
  
• 3 Products That Will Change 2008 - February 8, 2008 by by Allen Stern from CenterNetworks
• MTV, Flixwagon partner for Super Tuesday mobile news - February 5th, 2008 by David Adewumi from VentureBeat
  

*Update: photos*