The Los Angeles Times reports about live streaming cellular video. Although the article focuses on technology entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, I was more interested in the comments from Laura Fitton about how she used Qik when her grandmother was dying.
Fitton, a consultant in public speaking, visited her paternal grandmother, who was dying in Massachusetts at a hospice on Cape Cod. Her grandmother was given two weeks to live, and Fitton’s father in Florida wasn’t sure whether he should immediately fly to the hospice.
Fitton, who has a Qik feed (see left), aimed her camera phone at her grandmother so her father could see his mother at the hospice. “It almost gave him a chance to sit with her awhile and start to come to terms with what he had to come and do,” Fitton says in the article.
Her father decided to fly to the Cape and saw his mother the following day. She died less than a day later. “’Time was more of the essence than anyone knew,’ Fitton said, and so the video session ‘really made a difference in our lives,’” the Los Angeles Times reports.
The power of personal live streaming
Many techies use their phones to interview other techies, to stream conferences and to show their lunches and dinners. That’s fine, and there can be a lot of value with that.
But Fitton’s live streaming dramatically highlights the power of this technology for personal use. It’s applications like Fitton’s — not one more lame, blurry, noisy party video — that helps to illustrate how live streaming cellular video is revolutionary.
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