Livestream

One of the most fascinating things about the Internet at the moment is the way it has democratised the creation of media – through blogs, wikis and podcasts. It’s as though everyone now owns their own personal newspapers and radio stations.  Pretty awesome, really.

But it doesn’t stop there. Using sophisticated tools like Livestream, UStream, Stickam or even Qik, it’s now possible to run the Internet equivalent of your own TV studio.  I’m still just experimenting with this stuff at the moment, but it has some amazing potential.  The video stream below is looping through a collection of my content from YouTube, just some videos that I’ve made and accumulated over the past few years. However, as that all grows I can imagine it being possible to run a worthwhile 24/7 video feed as well as adding the occasional live feed when things are happening in real time.  What a world we live in!

If you click the Menu button on the player you can browse the On-Demand library and jump directly to whatever video you want (they are in categories, just choose the one you want)

Live Mobile Streaming with Qik

Qik is a service that can send live video directly to the web from a mobile phone.  I’ll occasionally send out one of these streams, (which also sends a Twitter notification whenever there is a live feed happening) and the video is embedded below.  When I’m not livestreaming (which is most of the time obviously) the most recent broadcast stream will be in the video window below.
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Visit my live streaming page on Qik.

Audio Boo

The other interesting live stream (well, actually it’s not quite live, but it’s “near-live”) is AudioBoo.  AudioBoo allows you to record an audio podcast directly to your iPhone, which it then immediately uploads to the web.  You can also tag, geotag and add photos for each live stream.  The quality, I must say, is quite astounding.

You can access my AudioBoo feed here at http://audioboo.fm/profile/betchaboy

The realtime web is becoming an interesting place!

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