Scobelizer Launches FastCompany.TV

Robert Scoble launched FastCompany.tv today with two new shows - FastCompany Live and ScobleizerTV. On his blog , he writes, "The first is a show done totally on cell phones. If you’ve been watching my Qik channel, you’ve been getting a preview. The second is a new version of my show. This time done with high-end microphones and much better camera equipment. Oh, and a camera operator (that’d be my producer, Rocky Barbanica) instead of me trying to do everything."

In his new role as Managing Director he will be building a business video network for FastCompany. Here's his welcome video.



Congratulations Robert!

Let me know if you need help producing any big broadcast videoconferences or web casts.

Related:

• Welcome to Scobleizer TV - March 3, 2008, FastCompany.TV (About Us)
  
• A New Kind of Business Video Network Launches - March 3, 2008, FastCompany
  
• Fast Company TV is Live - Scoble Welcomes - March 3, 2008, Center Networks
• FastCompany.tv Launches with Twistage Player - March 3, 2008, Beet.TV
  

CES Hangover

CES has come and gone for another year and amid the Gizmodo controversy, Panasonic's 150" Plasma TV, the death of HD DVD, Apple's new MacPro and Xserve product announcements, Bill Gates last Microsoft CES keynote and hours of live coverage and blog reviews - I've assembled a few more bits and bytes of information before Apple steals the spotlight tomorrow at the Macworld Expo.



This is a great review of everything you need to see - by Ryan Block of Engadget

CES 2008: everything you need to see

Bug Labs is still Scoble's favorite thing and here's his CNBC appearance on The Big Idea




Finally, CES 2008 also marked the end of an era, as Bill Gates delivered his final Microsoft CES Keynote, this video is courtesy of G4:





Here's the full video clip that played as part of Bill's last CES Keynote:

Scobleizer Scoops Kyte Funding

A day before the official announcement, Robert Scoble paid a visit to Kyte's San Francisco office and scooped the big story that Kyte has received additional funding to the tune of $15 million (US dollars) from Telefonica, Nokia, DoCoMo, Swisscom, Holtzbrinck and DFJ. In his usual social networking fashion he conducted a live web conference with the Kyte executives to break the news.


Why is this important? Well, it's not just because it's some of the coolest technology in lifecasting and microblogging - it's charting new territory in content distribution - as Scoble says , "Telefonica has 230 million users. DoCoMo has 52 million. Nokia has 39% of the cell phone market share. If the Kyte player is embedded on these three it brings a HUGE audience to Kyte." Read his blog for more information.

You can also go to Scobleizer's Qik page to view his Qik videos of the announcement.

Check out the Kyte blog for the latest on their mobile web development.

It Looks Like the Revolution Will Be Televised - Qik

Thanks to an innovative new cell phone streaming service called Qik - a product of Santa Clara, Calif. start-up Visivo Communications, the revolution will be televised, on the web... from your cell phone.

Similar to Kyte.tv, Justin.tv and Seesmic, this "little piece of software enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web."


Lisa Gaines, of NewTeeVee, wrote about it last week in her post, One to Watch: Qik Live Video and Robert Scoble is going ga-ga over this next new killer app - live video streaming from mobile to web. It's definitely the real deal and you can see for yourself in this demo Scoble created with his producer Rocky.
Mash this up with Twitter and you can imagine the endless lifecasting possibilities. Your cell phone can become a live broadcast channel. This goes way beyond the Dick Tracy wrist phone and it's created quite a buzz in the UK and Germany according to Techcrunch.

To get started you need to sign up on the web site and have one of the supported Nokia 560 smart phones with an unlimited plan. You can view the Qik FAQ page for more information. The video is not that high quality since it's coming from a cell phone but I'm sure it will improve over time.

Lifecasting with Kyte.tv

With all the collaborative and live video streaming applications - like Youtube, Skype, Twitter, Justin.tv, Kyte.tv, Facebook, MySpace - is what we’re doing an ongoing Lifecast?

Lifecasting is defined in Wikipedia as "a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media.... through the medium of the Internet and can involve wearable technology. Justin Kan popularized lifecasting after strapped a web cam to his head and began his life broadcast 24/7. He founded Justin.tv and the web site streams multiple live video channels of people mostly hanging out at work or at home chatting online with viewers, or driving in their cars or performing live music. One channel had a live feed from a club in San Francisco that regularly broadcasts a Salsa dance class. You can get your own mobile Lifecasting kit like Justin at Dynamisim. The technology does lend itself to adult themes based on it's voyeuristic quality, but everything I saw was G-rated, mainly people chatting with their viewers.

While I'm not ready to set up a live video streaming channel, I did try sign up an account on Kyte.tv. Here's a video example I produced to show how it works.

It's easy to set up a Kyte.tv account and start broadcasting. The online content creation tools are intuitive and easy to use. I didn't spend too much time exploring the channels, but I did find Scobleizer's channel and you can't miss 50 cent's channel on the main page.

We'll continue to see a lot of development in this area of personalized channels (live and on-demand), interactive video tagging, live chat and mobile streaming applications with more and more in the coming year. One recent example is San Francisco-based start-up Seesmic, a community driven video social software that's being called the video based Twitter. It's gone through beta and is now it's in its invitation only alpha phase. Here is what TechCrunch says about it.