Yeah. It's funny that it's getting so much attention. Live stuff comes around as The Next Big Thing every year, it seems.
But surely it complements, rather than replaces, recorded media. It's just another tool to be able to use cheaply and easily, and increasingly in a Web 2 kind of way. It's interesting to watch when it's a tech innovation - like Steve using his N95 - and if it's someone who has a large audience or readership a certain number are going to tune in... But really, my wife just looked over my shoulder at the video of that guy driving and she then looked at me with such pity and confusion that I find it hard to imagine the general public really getting into watching some dude drive round Hawaii house hunting in large numbers. Unless they've got a LOT of time on their hands, they're going to prefer edited and directed material most of the time. But the live roaming interactivity of it is pretty cool. Yeah - I could have done with this when I was in my suit job, conducting teleconferences with investors in the US - showing them our management and facilities in real time would have been amazing. And I can see myself using it with my family across the world. Like our videoblogging FlashMeetings. On the other hand, you could say that at its core this stuff is just about wireless webcams, which are used in these ways already - and how many of us actually tune in to random webcams for more than a minute or so? Unless there's someone stripping at the other end. Or so I hear. Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 16 Apr 2007, at 21:59, Ryan Ozawa wrote: Say, Steve, with your N95 and your live video experiments... were you sending your video out over WiFi, or over the cellular data network (i.e. EVDO or EDGE or whatever)? Todd "GeekNewsCentral" Cochrane took viewers house hunting all over Honolulu yesterday, and it was oddly riveting... even the driving! And to have a gaggle of people commenting on properties and prices along with him was pretty cool. He was able to read and respond to our comments live: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7839716112523947672&hl=en It's getting to the point where this is plug-n-play. The laptop solution would require a camera and data card, the phone solution ain't cheap if the N95 is your pick, but still, imagine what this took two years ago? Now you're looking at under a grand, half that in some cases. Could it be live video will become easier to do than edited and archived? I guess it makes sense in a way... people "get" synchronous communication naturally. Ryan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
