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Sharing Personal experiences - Seesmic and DEMO (and Davos)

Posted on January 30, 2008
Filed Under Personal Posts, Web 2.0 (Observations) |

It’s all starting to become clear to those of us prepping the ground for the bleeding edge - the next Big Think (TM) is going to be people doing their own live outside broadcasts (be it audio or video) of events, using the internet as the transmission mechanism. The first big murmurings have been from Davos, and have relied heavily on two new pieces of technology - Qik (streaming video from mobiles with a chat room attached) and Seesmic (a ‘chatroom’ of video geared heavily to creating conversations).

Let me talk about Seesmic, as I have some experience with that. It seems simple, a time-line of people’s videos, recorded directly to their server with a Flash website. The quality is poor to average, and there are basic social features (you have a friends list, you can reply, and that’s about it for the pre-alpha version we all use). Yet it’s one of the most interesting places to start global conversations at the moment.

You want to be specific? There’s a whole group of Seesmic users sitting up right now, watching as Cathy Brooks and Loic LeMeur of Seesmic prepare to present the new version of the product at the DEMO conference. We’ve watched the build-up, we’re throwing advice, we’ve seen the dress rehearsals and fed back what works and doesn’t. The almost solitary experience that LeMeur is going through has become a shared experience.

When the TV executives pushed the idea of mobile TV, I get the feeling they meant we would watch their channels like drones - not that we;d go off, make our own channels, our own content, and spank them with their own petards (before hoisting them).

Oooh it’s a fun space right now.

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