Streaming Media East 2008 - Lifecasting: The New Broadcasting Platform

I wanted to highlight a few more videos before moving on from Streaming Media East. This was one of the panel discussions I did watch briefy as live broadcast as several of the panelists streamed it live. I previously blogged about it here and it includes videos by Steve Garfield using Qik and Sarah (Meyers) Austin using Flixwagon.


From Streaming Media East final program:

Lifecasting: The New Broadcasting Platform How did lifecasting videos get so hot? In the early days of television, live was the second choice, because of potential pitfalls, cost of production, and a host of other problems. And yet, in the world of internet video, lifecasting—using internet video to share moments of our lives or to broadcast personal events and happenings—is the new hot thing. With platforms like Kyte.tv, Zannel, Mogulus, Stickcam, and many others now available, lots of new options and opportunities exist. Come see some of the hot and upcoming mobile lifecasting options in action and learn if lifecasting will become just a fad or the next big thing. Moderator: Jose Castillo, President, thinkjose Presenters: Scott Monty, Consigliere, crayon Sarah Austin, Founder, Pop17.com Steve Garfield, Mobile Video Journalist, SteveGarfield.com Sarig Reichert, Co-founder & VP BD, Flixwagon

Streaming Media East Lifecasting Panel

It's streaming live right now courtesy of SteveGarfield.com. I'll be back to fill in more details. Sarah Meyers is streaming it as well via Pop17.



UPDATE (5/21 10:38 PM): The panel session ended up a changed a bit. Jose Castillo stepped in for Chris Brogan as moderator, Steve Garfield joined the panel with Sarah Meyers (now Austin), Scott Monty of Crayon and Sarig Reichert of Flixwagon.

It's like dueling lifecasters between Steve and Sarah who was also streaming live to her Flixwagon page. Her video is also below.



Sarig Reichert's blog post: Streaming Media East - Life Casting Panel - The Flixwagon Blog

My ooVoo Day With... Recap Video, and the Good Deeds That Were Done

Scott Monty sent out an email yesterday to participants of “My ooVoo Day With..." as an update on what's new with ooVoo and a link to a fun new recap video that commemorated the "My ooVoo Day With..." event. In his email he said, "Thanks to your participation, it was a complete success. You helped fill over 450 seats in 161 video chat sessions over the course of 12 days. ooVoo was exposed to more people at once than ever before... But more than that, you made a difference to a number of charitable organizations. Last month, ooVoo was pleased to present a $30,000 check to the Frozen Pea Fund in the name of 22 of the hosts; in addition, $1,500 went to each of the following charities: Pie Ranch, the Massachusetts Air & Space Museum, the Disabled American Veterans; and $750 each went to the Ma Chien Autism School and Hands & Voices."

The video was created from recordings and screen shots made by people in the ooVoo community. I think they did a great job putting it together and the song is really cool too. You should be able to spot me in it!



Video description: "In February 2008, a group of 20 bloggers and podcasters hosted “My ooVoo Day”. The participating bloggers chatted with fans via ooVoo. To thank all the bloggers hosting the chats, ooVoo donated $30,000 to the Frozen Pea Fund, a fund established to support the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer campaign, in honor of blogger and cancer patient Susan Reynolds. Go to http://www.oovoo.com/ to download ooVoo and keep an eye out for My ooVoo Day With, Political Edition coming in June."

Some of the recent updates to ooVoo include the ability to stream ooVoo live and have an ooVoo video chat within Facebook. You can check out the ooVoo blog for more information.


In related news, ooVoo was a recent Webware 100 Winner in the Communications category as one of the cool web apps for everyone.

Congratulations ooVoo!