transatlantic and coast to coast

posted by Kosso
176 weeks, 6 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes, ago
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live, ustream, pirillo, garfield, comvu, Nokia, projector

This was amazing.

I saw Chris Pirillo on Twitter say he was using Ustream.tv to broadcast himself live. So, off I went to see what was going on.

Lo and behold, i saw Chris chatting away to people on the builtin webchat they had on his show page and also on irc.

So, I hooked up my webcam and Skyped him. Then I could see myself on his screen too! We chatted away while others watched.

Meanwhile, I was projecting the whole thing on my wall with one of my projectors (I love projectors).

THEN, Steve Garfield popped up in the chat room and started using his ComVu account and a Nokia N95 to broadcast LIVE from his phone too!!

At one point all three of us were chatting away, with some stilted lag here and there, but it was a truly trans-Atlantic and coast-to-coast broadcast!

Three geeks wittering away! Heheh. Me in London, Chris and Seattle and Steve in Boston. GREAT!

Then Ponzi called and dragged Chris away :)

hehehe..

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6 comments...

steve garfield
posted at 12:38:07 - Sat 14th o April, 2007 GMT
This was very exciting. Part of it had to do with the immediacy of the live broadcast, part of it was the excitement of finding new uses for leading edge technology, and part of it was the fun of connecting to friends in real time in a unique way.

Tom parish
posted at 22:36:50 - Sat 14th o April, 2007 GMT
Rather mind bending to see this so quickly. It's faster then the news responds and quite global. Well done.

Len
posted at 23:49:53 - Sat 14th o April, 2007 GMT
...and then today we have McScoble streaming video from his laptop on the road, with Chris calling on his cell, and that's where I first saw Kosso in the chat room, helpfully answering my questions. Amazing. It's a mashup of reality, a real shifting of possible ways for people to connect. I love it, love it.

Kosso
posted at 02:01:28 - Sun 15th o April, 2007 GMT
Tom :) You have GOT it ! ;) that's the idea man ;)

Rupert
posted at 20:40:00 - Wed 18th o April, 2007 GMT
I popped in for a while and saw some of this. Totally amazing. Great use of multiple tools. It's like being in the middle of the BBC studio on election night! And it's incredible that Steve is doing these comvu livecasts from his N95 via wifi - I think comvu have got something good going on there - you should check out the demo video on their site. I could have really used this in my last job, doing walkaround videochats. Finally we're getting these briliant possibilities for connections - whether it's people using their cellphones & computers for regular broadcasts or people getting through when other comms methods have been knocked out by weather (or whatever). Hopefully, we'll see it being used for some cooler uses than, say, Justin.tv is putting it to (but hey, we've got to start somewhere).

Kosso
posted at 15:05:37 - Thu 19th o April, 2007 GMT
Thanks! ;) - I thought the N93 had the same camera. Oddly enough I used to work for BBC News Interactive :p - ComVu is a great idea. I had a go recently on my N91 and N95. ;) Now, if only I could do it with my N800 :) Incedentally, this website all the flash video and audio plays fine on the N800 browser!!

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