BlogTV goes mobile

BlogTV, a blogvideo streaming service (live & pre-recorded), is the latest social platform rushing over to offer its services mobile. Their new site m.blogtv.com offers live streaming to almost any ‘video’ capable phone with the exclusion of the iPhone.

BlogTV enables the host and viewers to communicate and therefore create a more engaging experience rather then just providing pre-recorded video content. They claim that the entire interaction experience is available on most modern phones.

popurls - nice web aggregator

If you are wanting to find out what currently the best content or conversations are on the web then head over to popurls.com. This is a smart little web aggregates that collects the headlines and latest (popular) material from a host of different news, social, and sharing websites.

It is available directly via your web browser or directly to mobile, iPhone, PSP, PS3, twitter, jaiku and Wii.

Basically popurl is a nice GUI of RSS feeds that you don’t have to set up yourself, anyone who uses RSS will understand the logic behind it buy ultimately use their own setup. If you are wishing to explain how RSS feeds work, this is a great place to take people as an example.l

youTube joins the mobile revolution

It seems that everyone is adding a mobile channel to their platforms. youTube has just launched m.youtube.com which enables users of 3G and WiFi phones to log in and view video content.

To use the mobile channel you need to download a mobile application which is only available for a limited number of late model phones including the iPhone

For more information visit the youtube blog

Livecastr - Live Video from your Mobile

Livecastr has launched a platform that allow people to broadcast video ‘live’ from their mobile phone. The video can be viewed either from a friends mobile, the Livecastr site or from the Livecastr player which can be embedded into the ‘broadcasters’ personal web page or social network platform.

Livecastr is currently in private beta release which means that they are seeking people to test their platform for them. Look to Livecastr in the future becoming a important media channel for businesses wanting to participate in the newmedia conversation.

Is this technology important? [Read more]

Google Launches Mobile Platform

Google has launched new mobile platform called Android which is an open platform for mobile devices. It enables the development of connectivity tools to be developed that links mobile to the internet. Google has also announced a $10million prize pool for develpers who build innovative apps for the platform.

So if you take all the technical mumbo jumbo away what does ‘Android‘ mean to consumers, business and markets. It simply comes down to one simple concept.

The ability to be digitally connected from any location. [Read more]

live.com e-mail addresses up for grabs

If you have been waiting to grab your email from hotmails replacement then your wait is over

Microsoft has launched their new email service live.com and you are able to register your email address at get.live.com

YourStreet.com puts Australia in the USA

Always keen to test new web offering I headed out to the www.yourstreet.com site to play with this unique concept that officially launches tomorrow.

YourStreet combines Google Maps and local news, it detects where you are and delivers news stories that have recently occurred in your area as well as comments from people who live near you. It is the first website to map news to a specific location.

CEO James Nicholson explains, “The thing that distinguishes us is that we can get down to a specific street level”. As a business model this means YourStreet can develop advertising campaigns to a specific “street level” audience.

Many people will remember Nicholson from his previous startup NetVentures which was sold to CNET for US$12 million way back in 1999. So far he has self invested around US$400,000 although this figure has not been confirmed.

Now back to the testing. [Read more]

The Rise and Rise of Presence Applications

Whether you call it micro-blogging, mini-blogging or a presence application (PA), one thing is for certain it is changing the way we connect and interact. PA’s like Twitter and Jaiku (to name a few) have extremely simple interfaces, are easy to comprehend and are highly addictive. Although PA’s are not new it seems that they are gaining traction because they offer an advantage over traditional digital expression technologies, the ability to interact via the interface of choice, be it a browser, IM, plugin, custom app or mobile phone. But I believe that mobile blogging can be attributed to the fast take-up and continuity of use that PA’s are currently experiencing. So how is this technology changing the way we connect and interact? [Read more]