Kyte.tv: Video 2.0
I'm extremely excited about a new company and what they're enabling people to do in terms of using audio, video and text to communicate in a brand new way. Kyte.tv allows anyone with a recording device to create a channel and produce shows on that channel. Each channel has its own url and producing a show is as easy as recording from your webcam, emailing pictures from your phone, or simply putting a link on top of a picture.
Now, YouTube has channels too but those are really quite boring compared to what Kyte.tv has put together. They've used Flash to liven up features such as comments and actual show production. When you go to a Kyte.tv channel, you can check out the latest show on the channel, enter LiveChat where you can chat about it with other channel viewers, and even post your own audio and video chat comments. Some channels even let you produce shows for them.
What's so cool about this is that it reminds me of watching Cops 2.0 on G4. There you can watch and chat with others at the same time. You can make comments about the show or just get into tangent conversations as so often happens in chat and in life.
On kyte.tv/scobleizer for instance, Robert Scoble has been posting all kinds of interviews and content including audio from the recent Apple press event. It was as close to being at that event as many of us will ever be. In Robert's LiveChat, we were listening to Steve Jobs demo delayed something like a minute or two. Robert could also follow the chat on his phone and chime in if viewers had questions.
The power of this site comes when you've got a phone that can take video and run the Kyte.tv app. Currently, the best choice for this appears to be the Nokia N95 and I'm seriously thinking of switching providers to get this phone. My Treo 650 is starting to show its 18 months of age. To get familiar and maybe to help a person or two, I've setup my own channel at kyte.tv/computerissues. There, I'll try to answer viewer computer questions as they come in to computerissues (at) sterryit.com.
Now, YouTube has channels too but those are really quite boring compared to what Kyte.tv has put together. They've used Flash to liven up features such as comments and actual show production. When you go to a Kyte.tv channel, you can check out the latest show on the channel, enter LiveChat where you can chat about it with other channel viewers, and even post your own audio and video chat comments. Some channels even let you produce shows for them.
What's so cool about this is that it reminds me of watching Cops 2.0 on G4. There you can watch and chat with others at the same time. You can make comments about the show or just get into tangent conversations as so often happens in chat and in life.
On kyte.tv/scobleizer for instance, Robert Scoble has been posting all kinds of interviews and content including audio from the recent Apple press event. It was as close to being at that event as many of us will ever be. In Robert's LiveChat, we were listening to Steve Jobs demo delayed something like a minute or two. Robert could also follow the chat on his phone and chime in if viewers had questions.
The power of this site comes when you've got a phone that can take video and run the Kyte.tv app. Currently, the best choice for this appears to be the Nokia N95 and I'm seriously thinking of switching providers to get this phone. My Treo 650 is starting to show its 18 months of age. To get familiar and maybe to help a person or two, I've setup my own channel at kyte.tv/computerissues. There, I'll try to answer viewer computer questions as they come in to computerissues (at) sterryit.com.
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