It’s very early in the morning (or very late at night, depending on your perspective) in the Federal City and I have been watching Robert Scoble’s live videos that he’s broadcasting on Qik from the World Economic Forum in Davos.
I was watching, live, Robert’s interview with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch (see below).
Before that I watched an interview with Tariq Krim, the founder of NetVibes, as well as an interview with someone from Reuters (“Nic” — possibly Dr. Nic Fulton, chief scientist for Reuters Media) who presented Robert with a new Nokia N82 five megapixel camera phone (see below).
Reuters will be using Nokia phones to post videos from Davos. For several months Reuters has been testing cellular phones for shooting and posting videos, as I wrote in a “Thinkernet” column about “serendipitous broadcasting.”
The future is live cellular broadcasting
Robert has four cellular phones at Davos, including the N82 (that I expect to begin testing next month). He often uses his Nokia N95 five megapixel camera phone to record live videos via Qik (that I wrote about), although the videos I was watching from Davos are from a camcorder, not a handset.
Both the N95 and N82 record at 30 frames per second and produce some of the highest-quality cellular phone videos.
I have written before and will continue to write that live, streaming video from cellular phones is, without question, going to make an enormous impact on many professions and activities, ranging from journalism to politics to personal interactions. This is just the beginning.
Yeah, that's a not-so-flattering image of Nic Fulton...
Posted by: Nic Fulton | February 02, 2008 at 12:53 PM