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Frank Barth-Nilsen
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The HD shift is coming – are you ready?
March 14, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Tags: bambuser, Contribution, flixwagon, HD, Live streaming, Motorola, nokia, publishing, pushing content, qik, samsung, social media, Sony Ericsson, Streaming, ustream, Vivaz
Posted in Cell phone, Contribution, Storytelling, Streaming, social media | No comments
More and more mobile phones offers HD recording and playback. Sony Ericsson Vivaz is one of the latest. The Vivaz offers video recording in 1280 * 720 – 24 fps. And yes, it’s really 24fps – not a dynamic recording rate. From what I have seen – it’s a step up from Samsung Omnia HD.
When [...]
Finnish broacaster YLE signs up with Bambuser
January 26, 2010 - 1:50 pm
Tags: bambuser, broadcaster, Streaming, yle
Posted in Contribution, Streaming, social media | 1 comment
The national finnish broadcaster YLE will be Bambusers first commercial partner in 2010. Tuija Aalto, Head of New Media Development at YLE made this clip to explain why the finnish broadcaster are teaming up with Bambuser.
Coolest unboxing video ever
January 21, 2010 - 9:08 am
Tags: Funny, google nexus one, unboxing
Posted in Cell phone, Funny | No comments
Usually I think all those unboxing videos on the tube is pretty stupid. I can’t see what’s so interesting about unpacking a cell phone or any other technical equipment. But this video about the Google Nexus One is pretty cool. It’s a smart and entertaining way of marketing the phone.
Apple finally allows live streaming from iPhone
December 15, 2009 - 12:52 pm
Tags: bambuser, flixwagon, iphone, qik, ustream
Posted in Cell phone, Software, Streaming, social media | 4 comments
A couple of days ago, Apple allowed Ustream to launch an app that streams live from your iPhone. The Ustream app also gives you the choice to link your account to Facebook and YouTube. I’m still testing the app but I think both Bambuser and Qik provides better video and audio. You still have to jailbreak your [...]
Fun clip on social media from Onion
December 3, 2009 - 3:01 am
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Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire
Thanks a lot to Dr. David Nordfors from Stanford University for showing me this during a meet up about innovation journalism. Have to digest what he told me, but I will post something about it later. But you can check out his blog on [...]
Qik getting a grip on broadcasters
December 2, 2009 - 5:09 am
Tags: bambuser, freemium, qik, Streaming
Posted in Contribution, Storytelling, Streaming | 2 comments
Qik is one of my all time favorite mobile applications. Today I met co-founder Bhaskar Roy in their headquarters in Redwood City outside San Francisco.
Qik offers live streaming from different cell phones. About 80 percent of their user base is regular people, streaming live from weddings and other sort of events affecting their lives. The other [...]
- I read what my friends read
December 1, 2009 - 10:31 pm
Posted in Storytelling, social media | No comments
I met up with Loic Le Meur today, founder of both Seesmic and LeWeb. He talked about the new Seesmic Desktop for Windows and the gathering in Paris next week. Loic is passionate about the social web. As journalists we could probably learn a lot about what people expect from us today and in the [...]
Studying social media in San Francisco
November 27, 2009 - 7:48 pm
Posted in social media | No comments
I’m organizing a trip with Norwegian journalist, editors and developers to San Francisco. Next week we are visiting excellent companies like Wikimedia, YouTube, Qik and Seesmic. The head of Bambuser will even join us on Skype from Sweden. A lot of interesting people will visit us to talk about trends and development in social media [...]
Secure your iPhone from hackers
November 11, 2009 - 6:01 pm
Tags: hack, iphone, security
Posted in Hacks | No comments
(Photo: Ed Shipul – Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 )
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you could be in big trouble. A vulnerability in whats called the SSH gives hackers free access to your phone. Open SSH is supposed to encrypt your traffic on Internet, but the version installed in the jailbroken version has [...]
Top ten iPhone apps for mobile journalists
November 10, 2009 - 2:48 pm
Tags: apps, editing, iphone
Posted in Cell phone, Hacks, Software, Streaming | 14 comments
Got a new iPhone and wonder about what apps you need as a mobile journalist? Here is my top ten list.
Tweetie 2
The best app for Twitter I’ve found so far. Handles multiple accounts and is very intuitive to use. Features an offline mode with the possibility to save to Instapaper. Also offers possibility to post [...]
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