The evolution of mobile reporting
Bambuser is teaming up with Polopoly
The mobile streaming market is definitely hot these days. One day Flixwagon announces that they are selling in-house solutions for media companies, the next day Bambuser is answering. Bambuser have made a deal with another Swedish company, Poloply, to include live mobile streaming in their CMS. Poloply has nearly $1 billion USD worth of software installed worldwide and supports in excess of 800 customers in more than 40 countries, according to a press release.
Bambuser has one advantage over Flixwagon. Their streaming system can produce multiple mobile phone streams in one channel. Pretty much the same way you can use Qik and Mogulus. My biggest problem with Bambuser lately have been that their servers seems overloaded, producing streams with bad quality. My own company is already using Polopoly. It will be exciting to see how much the streaming addendum will cost and how an in-house solution will effect the quality. My guess is that the swedes are back in the race again, competing with Qik and Flixwagon.
May 18, 2009 - 6:51 pm
hi,
would you recommend polopoly as a cms?
is it easy or difficult for non-tech people to use?
does it work off-line?
does it integrate well with social media? for example, can people tweet articles they have read in a polopoly-driven site?
thanks!
sergi
May 19, 2009 - 12:08 am
Hi Sergi!
I guess it depends on what sort of site you are running. Polopoly is mainly a system for really big sites. In my company we’ve got more than 500 registrered writers/users I think.
PP got a lot of functions and the back end is not for non-tech people. The editor is also a bit complex, but nothing you can’t learn. To set it up you need to know a lot about CSS and databases. It’s nothing like Wordpress.
I guess it’s possible to run a development server off line, but you need a server. Haven’t checked if something like XAMP will be enough. My guess is not.
PP got some extra modules you can buy, I actually don’t know if they offer modules for social media. If they haven’t got it – I guess you will be able to pay them for development. Not cheap. We’re talking about a really high prized CMS for companies with a lot of pages and users.
I see you already use Wordpress. There are a lot of ways to customize WP. Just do a quick search on Google. Also if you want to automate publishing live mobile content. If you give me som hints of what you want to do, I might be able to help you.
Another option might be Expression Engine. It’s also a good CMS. But requires som tech skills. You also have to buy a license, but it’s really peanuts compared to Polopoly. Free options might be Drupal or Joomla. But be prepared for a lot of coding and tweaking.
Best wishes