Ever wanted to cover an event or a prank using your mobile phone as it unfolded before your eyes and share it with people, LIVE?
Qik answers your wishes with a service to stream near-live audio-video content online. The model itself is based somewhat around the twitter concept of following people. The video content is laid out like you would expect it to be: “hot posts”, “top qik’ers” and tag based sorting. It lends itself very well to the web 2.0 ideology of user generated content, inter-connectivity with other services such as facebook, youtube and stumbleupon and adds the real-time bit to it. The most important aspect of the service is that you no longer have to wait to transfer videos onto the PC and then upload. Qik records it for you as soon as you hit the record button on the phone app. Whats even more impressive is their range of supported handset manufacturers (see image below).
Qik.com caters to a number of handset manufacturers
Moreover, it gives you plenty of choices regarding how you want to acquire the software for the phone. I’ve already put up the most amateur video ever, here (yeah laugh all you want). The service opens the doors to citizen-video-journalism with live coverage of events worldwide. I’m looking forward to seeing some cool n Qik mashups.
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