| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.11.2010 | Greed? No, Video Is Good, As Oliver Stone Invests In Platform | Vzaar, an online video platform aimed at SMEs that want to publish video, has been plugging away since 2007, but seemed to go in an odd direction – aiming at eBay sellers who wanted to sex-up their auctions. Needless to say it was the low e... |
| 12.08.2009 | Capture Your Summer with Great Mobile Video Apps | One of the first appearances of a mobile phone in a major Hollywood movie was in director Billy Wilder’s 1954 Audrey Hepburn classic, “Sabrina”. Today, millions of phone owners across the world could recreate “Sabrina” from start to finish ... |
| 12.08.2009 | What'll happen to the video platforms? | Online video services proliferated like rabbits in the last few years, but can the market keep up?
Silicon Valley has a way of getting ahead of itself. The bust in 2000 didn’t happen because the internet was overhyped—it is, as promised, tr... |
| 04.08.2009 | USA CTO Aneesh Chopra: We Need To Extend Technological Innovation Beyond Our Personal Lives | Tonight Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director For Technology, spoke at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View during his first trip to Silicon Valley since he took office in an event that is being put on by... |
| 23.06.2009 | Kyte's iPhone 3GS App Doesn't Live-Stream, But It's Fast With Nice Quality Video | Kyte has just released its new Mobile Producer app into the App Store [iTunes link]. While it doesn’t require you have an iPhone 3GS, if you want to take advantage of its best feature, video, then you must have one. And if you do, I think y... |
| 19.06.2009 | Coming To Android This Summer: Kyte, Rummble and Google Books | Always nice for a reporter to bump into a developer who builds mobile applications for startups and gives you a live preview and details of yet-to-be-announced stuff. No worries, he has permission to talk about the apps (he thinks). The man... |
| 11.06.2009 | Video Demo: Scoble launches Building43 | Robert Scoble and Rackspace have just launched the long anticipated Building43 in an effort Scoble describes as, “helping usher businesses into 2010.” Said teammate Rocky Barbanica, “Companies can gain so much insight through the people on ... |
| 06.05.2009 | The Amazon DX Liveblog | UPDATE – There is a Live Kyte stream of the proceedings. Thrilling.
10:36am – In position and ready to rock.
10:40am – Bezos just stepped on stage.
The Kindle vision is every book ever printed available in 60 seconds. 18 montsh ago launched... |
| 20.04.2009 | SkyGrid Launches Free Real Time Financial News Aggregator | Dump those expensive Bloomberg terminals in the trash, because there’s a brand new financial news product in town. And it’s free. SkyGrid will aggregate all the news about publicly traded companies in a single user interface, and give users... |
| 11.03.2009 | Qik announces support for Nokia's Share on Ovi, will be featured in the Ovi Store | Qik’s video streaming software began its life on the Nokia S60 platform, so it makes sense that a number of its recent big wins involve Finland’s finest. This morning, Qik is announcing that their application is now compatible with Nokia’s ... |
| 23.02.2009 | Kyte Launches Turn-Key iPhone App Platform | Given the incredible popularity of the iPhone, many entertainers (and the studios backing them) are eager to establish a presence on Apple’s App Store, but don’t necessarily want to invest in the resources needed to independently develop th... |
| 18.01.2009 | The TechCrunch Guide To The Inauguration | Whether you are headed to Washington for the Obama Inauguration or simply want to follow along online, there is no shortage of sites and applications dedicated to the national party on Tuesday, January 20. Of course, every major news site (... |
| 30.12.2008 | Squatters Are Screwed; Nobody Cares If Your Domain Has That Hot New Suffix | Quick, name three significant web sites that have domain extensions that end in .me or .tv. Having trouble? Sure, there are a few of them out there (kyte.tv and Buddy.tv come to mind, but I can’t think of any major .me’s). For all of the hy... |
| 22.12.2008 | Bambuser Gets A Facelift, Rejoins The Mobile Video Streaming War | We haven’t covered live video streaming startup Bambuser until now, but the Swedish startup is rapidly shaping up to becoming a formidable contender to the likes of Qik, Flixwagon, and Kyte in the race to turn mobile phones into portable TV... |
| 11.12.2008 | Ustream.tv working on mobile streaming app to take on Qik, Kyte, FlixWagon | (Clarification Update on the video: The above video was sent in to us – not produced by us. While the source indicates that the devices were both running on 3G, there’s no way for us to positively verify that one wasn’t running WiFi while t... |
| 06.12.2008 | Escape the browser? | Sun’s difficult position has been covered here, in business circles, and even in the land of puppets. So when Jonathan Schwartz surfaces with the launch of JavaFX 1.0, naturally the question in everyone’s mind is how exactly a client techno... |
| 24.11.2008 | Kyte Turns Video Channels Into Mobile Websites | So far, Kyte has been focusing on getting mobile content (videos shot on a cell phone) onto the Web. For each publisher of mobile video, many of them rock stars and rappers, Kyte creates a branded video player they can put on their Websites... |
| 18.11.2008 | Crosstown Traffic: Adobe and Microsoft trading spaces | It seemed almost like the Good Old Days when everyone waited on Microsoft to show their cards before doing anything. While Adobe took over Moscone West in San Francisco for its MAX developer conference, Microsoft launched its Microsoft Onli... |
| 13.11.2008 | The Open Stack discussed at Internet Identity Workshop | Dare Obasanjo tweets today about why he likes Microsoft Live services and why that means he doesn’t think much of OpenSocial. It seems at least some Microsoftees still think the best way to compete is to talk down the competition, but I gue... |
| 31.10.2008 | Microsoft's Treadwell and Bryant: Mesh and Office on Azure | http://qik.com/swfs/qik_player.swf?streamname=63fbce42ead343288d04f6bc07d59d51&vid=470493&playback=false&polling=false&user=SteveGillmor&displayname=SteveGillmor&safelink=SteveGillmor&userlock=true&islive=&am... |
| 30.10.2008 | Flixwagon now compatible with Nokia's Share on Ovi | After the announcement that Qik would be a featured download on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, it looks like competitor Flixwagon is prepared to battle for their chunk of the Nokia mobile streaming market. Flixwagon has announced that they’re ... |
| 29.10.2008 | Video: VentureBeat Downturn Roundtable Entrepreneur Panel | The second session today during VentureBeat’s Downturn Roundtable consisted of a good discussion with entrepreneurs. Blogger Robert Scoble captured the event live on his Kyte page. Below find the embedded videos. http://www.kyte.tv/flash.sw... |
| 29.10.2008 | Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs: Make Cuts, Stay Stingy, But Never Forget The Dream | This is part two of our coverage on today’s Downturn RoundTable hosted by VentureBeat. For Part One, which details the Venture Capitalist panel, click here.
The Entrepreneurs
In a panel moderated by Kara Swisher, Toni Schneider, CEO of Auto... |
| 26.10.2008 | Qik Finally Brings Its Live Video Streaming To Blackberry | Qik, a startup that allows you to stream live video to the web directly from your phone, has launched support for RIM’s incredibly popular Blackberry platform. The software is currently available in an alpha state (so don’t be surprised if ... |
| 23.10.2008 | Video streaming comes to BlackBerry Bold, Razr soon. Hello mainstream. | Last week we reported that Next2Friends had come out with what appeared to be the first application for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl handsets to stream live video to the Web, in a similar fashion to early players like Qik, Flixwagon, and ... |
| 23.10.2008 | Mobile video streaming to hit Razr, BlackBerrys. Hello mainstream? | Last week we reported that Next2Friends had come out with what appeared to be the first application for the BlackBerry Curve and Pearl handsets to stream live video to the Web, in a similar fashion to early players like Qik, Flixwagon, and ... |
| 16.10.2008 | First app to stream live video from a BlackBerry surfaces | There are a bunch of live video streaming apps for mobiles now: Qik, Flixwagon, Kyte and more. But till now the BlackBerry has been the unloved guy in the grey sit, sitting in the corner, unable to join the party. Qik is on Symbian S60, Win... |
| 02.10.2008 | Qik To Come Pre-Loaded On New Nokia Phone | Qik has announced that its video streaming software will come pre-installed on Nokia’s just-launched 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone – the first deal of its kind for the still-young startup. The deal marks a big win for Qik, as it will e... |
| 27.08.2008 | Qik Finds New Investors, Moving to the iPhone | |
| 25.08.2008 | Nokia N95 Test | Comparing Qik and N95 Video Quality
It's been two weeks since I returned the Nokia 95 to Nokia/WOM World which had been on loan as a demo trial device. I had a month to test it out and out it through its paces.
Nokia/ WOM World offers trial... |
| 14.08.2008 | Flixwagon Matches Qik With 3G iPhone Service, Apple Still MIA | Hot on the heels of its competitor Qik, mobile video service Flixwagon has released an application for the iPhone 3G that allows users to stream live video from their cell phones. Qik released a similar application for the iPhone 3G yesterd... |
| 02.08.2008 | Mobile Web Wars Videos: Does Anybody Care About Android? | A week ago, I put together a roundtable about the upcoming mobile platform wars between the iPhone, Google’s Android, and older platforms like Nokia’s. One thing I discovered as I was organizing the event was that it was really hard to find... |
| 25.07.2008 | Mobile Web Wars live stream | http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/247478Free video streaming by Ustream
Here’s the live stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable, which starts at 3PM PT and ends at 5 PM. The Roundtable is a freewheeling discussion about whether the mobile W... |
| 25.07.2008 | Mobile Web Wars Live Stream | Here’s the live stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable, which starts at 3PM PT and ends at 5 PM. The Roundtable is a freewheeling discussion about whether the mobile Web is finally here and which platform will win going forward. While the... |
| 20.07.2008 | Start Streaming: Qik Opens To The Public | Qik, the video service that streams live feeds from your mobile phone, has finally launched its public beta. The site has also introduced a number of new features to the service, including support for restricted group access to videos, self... |
| 18.07.2008 | These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage | After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24.
They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They a... |
| 17.07.2008 | Mobile Livecasting Faces Off: Qik vs Kyte vs Flixwagon | Over the course of the last year we’ve seen an explosion of startups looking to take streaming video to the mobile phone. Smartphones with high-speed data plans and video cameras are becoming increasingly commonplace, and many users are eag... |
| 11.07.2008 | Live Stream of iPhone Launch From Palo Alto's Apple Store | Today marks the official launch of Apple’s 3G iPhone, and many people have been camping out in front of the company’s retail stores for days in anticipation of the phone’s release.
We’re streaming from the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto ... |
| 09.07.2008 | Video: Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite | Steve Gillmor and I met today with Brian Wick, a director of product marketing and the VP of the Livecycle division at Adobe. Livecycle is a J2EE based enterprise stack for data capture, management, assurance, etc. with the two main Adobe c... |
| 08.07.2008 | Flixwagon's Mobile Broadcasting Now Publicly Available | Mobile streaming service provider Flixwagon has added an array of new features in coincidence with its launch into public availability.
Among the new features, users can now register and download the client software through Nokia Symbian Se... |
| 17.06.2008 | Next2Friends launches against Qik, Flixwagon, with a twist | Next2Friends, the mobile social media platform, today launches its ‘Live’ application designed to provide real-time streaming from mobile devices to the mobile and static web, and mashes it up with a proximity app.
The pivately-backed start... |
| 14.06.2008 | Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space | The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV.
Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live to the Internet, with the primary tradeoff be... |
| 09.06.2008 | TechCrunch / CrunchGear Berlin Meetup This Wednesday | I’m really looking forward to the TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin this Wednesday, June 11. Organised with the excellent assistance of our local partner twidox, the event has been made possible by our fantastic sponsors, listed belo... |
| 09.06.2008 | Wednesday: TechCrunch / CrunchGear Berlin Meetup | 250 people. 27 sponsoring startups. Countless others coming as guests. There’s just one word for the TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin this Wednesday, June 11: Awesome. Organised with the excellent assistance of our local partner twi... |
| 08.05.2008 | TechCrunch/Crunchgear meetup, Berlin, June 11 | I’m delighted to announce that TechCrunch / CrunchGear are holding a Berlin meetup with our partner and co-organiser twidox. The “TechCrunch / twidox German Web 2.0 Meet-up” will be in Berlin, on the 11th of June. Imedo.de has kindly offere... |
| 07.05.2008 | TechCrunch/Crunchgear meetup – Berlin, June 11 | I’m delighted to announce that TechCrunch / CrunchGear are holding a Berlin meetup with our partner and co-organiser twidox. The “TechCrunch / twidox German Web 2.0 Meet-up” will be in Berlin, on the 11th of June. Imedo.de has kindly offere... |
| 10.04.2008 | Live video streaming company UStream.TV raises $11.1 million | http://ustream.tv/I9qIAGp79s6P76CrBpi1wQ.uscUStream.TV, a live video-streaming application, has raised $11.1 million in a first round of funding from venture capital firm DCM, as well as previous investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of ... |
| 07.03.2008 | Kyte Takes More Money, Moves Away from User Created Video | Online and mobile video publishing service Kyte.TV, a darling of the European venture scene, has added still more funding to its substantial war chest and is taking a radically different approach to content.
The high hopes vendors like Kyte... |
| 07.03.2008 | Kyte Becomes A Mobile-to-Web Video Platform For Brands (Adds New Investors and Live Mobile Streaming) | Kyte CEO Daniel Graf is taking another big step towards turning the cell phone into a video distribution platform. “This is a big day for Kyte,” he tells me, “our biggest release since we launched our beta last April.” Up till now, Kyte all... |
| 05.03.2008 | If Facebook Music Really Launches, Will It Get Dissed By 50 Cent? | Rumors surfaced again yesterday on Billboard and today in other media outlets that Facebook is in talks with the record labels to launch a music service that will include either free ad-supported music streams or paid downloads. Talk of suc... |
| 03.01.2008 | Next2Friends: Video and social mobile apps to go | Next2Friends, a new pivately-backed mobile social network, just came out of a short private beta to launch a ranges of mobile applications – including streaming video – which look like they will take on a number of startups including Seesmi... |
| 02.01.2008 | 14 ways to broadcast yourself…live | updated
Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies c... |
| 31.12.2007 | New Years Eve, Live On The Net | Another year has passed us all, and 2008 beckons tomorrow. For those not out and about this New Years Eve, here’s a few places you can join the experience online:
Video Streaming Sites
Sites such as Ustream, Kyte, Justin.tv and others will ... |
| 29.12.2007 | Jim Choma's Career Joins The Deadpool, Maybe | If there was one defining breakthrough in 2007 as opposed to the year before, it was live video. From Justin.tv through to the gauntlet of clones live video made its presence felt, even if it’s not dominate today.
Ustream.tv remains one of ... |
| 19.12.2007 | Treemo Becomes Mobile Media Distribution Platform with Widgets, Facebook Application | Treemo is a site where you can upload all types of media (photos, videos, audio clips, and text) from your mobile phone or desktop computer and share them with either the general public or just your friends. Until now, the only way to get y... |
| 19.12.2007 | Kyte Takes $15 Million Series B | Online video service Kyte has taken $15 million Series B in a round that included Telefonica, Nokia, DoCoMo, Swisscom, Holtzbrinck and DFJ. The new round brings total funding for Kyte to $17.25 million.
According to Kyte’s unofficial evange... |
| 19.12.2007 | Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? | Magnify.net, hitherto a platform intended primarily for collecting and sharing videos found around the web, is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam.
Whi... |
| 17.12.2007 | Qik streams live video from cell to Web | Robert Scoble has gone wild for a new video streaming service for cellphones called Qik. It vaguely competes with Kyte, Seesmic and Ustream, but is perhaps closest to Kyte. Qik enables live video casting from a cell phone via any 3G/GPRS/Wi... |
| 17.12.2007 | Video streaming from mobile to Web the next killer app? | Leading tech commentator Robert Scoble has gone mad for a new video streaming service for mobiles called Qik. It competes with Kyte and Seesmic but unlike those you do not have to wait for the video to be uploaded. Instead it streams the vi... |
| 26.11.2007 | You don't know what you're talking about, Scoble | I try not to step on anyone’s toes in the gadget blogosphere, but I cannot sit idle after reading Scoble’s “Dear Jeff Bezos” post and the big boss man’s video review. I agree with some of Scoble’s points, but there are a few that just don’t... |
| 15.10.2007 | Mobile 2.0 Launch Pad Part 2 | As noted last week, a group of startups promoting themselves at Mobile 2.0. Part 1 was in the morning. Here now is the afternoon session (note it was just 5 minutes per speaker, so we only got brief overviews of each service). Webwag Mobile... |
| 11.10.2007 | Mobile 2.0 Conference – Launch Pad Companies Announced | Next week I’ll be in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit. I’m also attending the Mobile 2.0 Conference on Monday 15 October, and will pop my head into the Widget Summit event being held by Niall Kennedy on the same day.
Today Read/WriteWeb... |
| 26.08.2007 | Google Will Be Beaten By Facebook, Mahalo: Scoble | http://www.kyte.tv/flash.swf?embedId=6357068&appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118http://media01.kyte.tv/images/updatenotice.swf
Above is part 3 of a 3 part Robert Scoble video blog series on “Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Face... |
| 28.07.2007 | TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming | http://www.viddler.com/player/4a41a3d2/
Well, it’s over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo’ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their d... |
| 27.07.2007 | TechCrunch Meet-Up at August Capital is Tonight | So today’s the big day for our second-annual TechCrunch meet-up at August Capital.
The Guest List is here – it is now full, and we wish we had more space to accommodate all the ticket requests. We’re planning additional events this year and... |
| 28.06.2007 | Robert Scoble: Live Video-Blogging and First in Line for iPhone | http://www.kyte.tv/flash.swf?embedId=3226436&appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118http://www.kyte.tv/images/updatenotice.swf
If you’re waiting in line for iPhone and you’re feeling like a total loser, you’re not. Blogstar R... |
| 15.06.2007 | Kyte's Plans Come Together: Deals with EMI & Nokia Announced, New Facebook Application | Kyte.tv, which is at its core a media player for personal expression, lets users send a stream of personal information to their friends: drag photos, video and text into the channels and interact with people viewing your content. In our lau... |
| 12.06.2007 | Video craze continues: Permission TV, YourTrumanShow, more | Online video has never been hotter, and investors are frantically searching for new deals — absurdly so.
See the piece we just wrote about prolific investor Ron Conway, who says the competition for deals is so intense, entrepreneurs are com... |
| 11.06.2007 | Kyte.tv, the online TV widget company, receives investment from Nokia Growth Partners | Kyte.tv, the San Francisco company allowing users to create their own TV channels online or on a mobile phone, today announced an investment in the “single digit millions” from Nokia Growth Partners, the venture capital arm of Nokia. This i... |
| 15.05.2007 | Kyte.tv raises single-digit millions for online TV channel service | Kyte.tv, the San Francisco company that lets users manage their own TV channels online or on a cell-phone, has raised a second round of financing in the “single-digit” millions of dollars.
Swiss carrier Swisscom and German media group Holtz... |
| 22.04.2007 | Kyte.tv goes live, with the kitchen sink | Kyte.tv, the service that wants to be your own interactive TV channel, has finally launched.
We wrote wrote about the company two months ago, after first getting a demo.
You can host your photos, slide-shows, videos all in one place — the K... |
| 12.02.2007 | Radar, the real-time photo sharing company, gets boost | updated
San Francisco start-up Tiny Pictures allows you to take and send photos to your friends’ phones. The photos can be shared almost instantly and with groups of friends, who can then comment.
The company’s product, named Radar, will ge... |
| 07.01.2007 | Web 2.0 bubble bursting: Peerflix cuts workforce, carnage mounting elsewhere | This year has become the “show-me” year. Internet start-ups showing no traction are getting shut down, or trimmed — abandoned by once wide-eyed investors.
The Web 2.0 bubble is bursting, but VentureBeat agrees with others that this is more ... |