Sharing video has become a commonplace feature of social sites. Sharing video live from your mobile handset is the new auteur’s medium, a gritty and often fuzzy siezing of moments for sharing with the world. Qik, one of the pioneering services in the live video field, is being used by leading bloggers and ordinary folks to send video to viewers via the Qik web site, RSS and Apple’s iTunes. From interviews by journalists using their cell phone to capturing moments with friends or just video of someone is playing with a dog, Qik is live TV in which everyone is a channel of their very own.

 

The Qik world is still nascent, as indicated by the fact the “top Qikkers” have produced fewer than 100 videos on average and the fact that the most popular videos they make are often months old. If this phenomenon were growing explosively, popularity would be dominated by more recent videos, because more viewers would be seeing these as new, upcoming programs while older programs would be pushed aside.

During a visit to the site, live video appeared, as displayed in the map that accompanies video feeds, from Brasil, Oklahoma in the U.S. and Japan over just three minutes. Fewer than 600 people were online, but this represents only the earliest stage of live video. 

Qik is currently supported on Apple iPhones, Blackberry, HTC, Nokia and Motorola mobiles, among others. For the complete list visit the Qik support page here.

Home Page: Qik.com
Live video streaming from mobile handsets to the Web and friend networks.

Free

Tags: mobile, RSS, video production, video-sharing

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