The storage capacity on phones has been going up a lot recently. When phones became music players they needed storage capacity to store MP3s. There are phones now marketed with a specific focus on their ability to capture video. (I’m thinking that giant nokia transformer thingy).

Thanks! No idea!

The good news with mobile is we’ve got their phone number so there is some accountability if anyone posts something obscene – so far (knock on wood) we’re in the clear.

With more and more phones video enabled and the quality better than expected, I think this will be an important component to WHERE and other social media networks going forward. We recently added video support to our XML API so that people can reserve an address (E.g. address@where.com) and then pull all the video clips and pictures that were MMS’d to that address.

One of the most popular video sharing website, You Tube has launched a new mobile service that enable users to upload videos through their cellular phones.

To get started you need to register for a regular account and then set up a mobile profil…

Youtube Mobile is gelanceerd, meldt Techcrunch. Zo kun je direct vanaf je gsm filmpjes uploaden. Handig! Dat doe ik voor foto’s al met Flickr, en of dat met video’s mogelijk is wil ik ook wel eens proberen. En ja hoor, works like a charm: o…

Many news events are captured by news crews by pure coincidence. 9/11 for example, crews were filming other things at the time of the atacks. BUT you know that there will have been thousands of other sources (video cameras, digital cameras, cell-phone cameras) that will have undoubtedly witnessed the tragedy too – but they have no-where to be posted.

This new YouTube move will allow real-time loading of live events faster than ANY news team could get there. Equally, the portability of mobile phones will ensure that as long as you can get a signal ANYONE can report anything from the most remote of locations and make it public.

London 7/7 was the epitome of this. Haunting images of bombed train passengers walking through dimly lit tunnels moved many people and put a shockingly different perspective on events that the news crews were not there to cover.

It wouldn’t surprise me if there is something in the pipelines where channels will be created on YouTube (ok, tags are already a step in the right direction) whereby content from live events can be email direct to YouTube.

Exciting times ahead!

Michael’s done many pieces about Video-hosting on the net, with every new company temporarily thought of as the best cutting-edge one, from YouTube to Videoegg et al.

However, in ALL that time, there’s one little uk-based company that’s been doing all these features from (creator) tagging to mobile-uploading to integrated editing -even though it might be crap at hyping every last feature!!!

I think one problem might be that while it allows sharing, it allows privacy, so it’s not benefitting from the network-effect in the way companies like yt can become destination sites.

Anyway, go visit http://www.forbidden.co.uk or http://www.clesh.com

Kind regards,

Shakir

Also, Vimeo gives you a personal email address you can send clips to and they get posted right away. Works great from cell phones. They’ve had this feature for like 6 months, too.

Anyway, anyone who likes YouTube should check out Blog Cheese, because its so easy to use.
-Andrew

YouTube is all entertainment.. the flickr brand is much more than that.

But YouTube is fundamentally *not* a “Flickr of video”. As the previous commenter says, it’s more like a MySpace of video (with all the negative connotations that might imply). This has less to do with geeks and more to do with the 13-25yr old demo. Go look at the most discussed videos on YouTube – teens making video blogs. I don’t see anyone recording memories. Now go look at the comments – do all those LOLs look more like Flickr or MySpace to you?

If you want to store your photos and videos together, that’s even worse. That would limit Flickr’s growth to the same old geek set that I spoke about. By definition, that would prevent the video offering becoming bigger than YT.

This is just email a multimedia file to the site, not much different from emailing a pix to the site. Once users figure out that it isnt a premium paid MMS and just an email with an attachment they use the service.

The flip side of course is that it isnt a premium paid MMS (which we assumed it would be when we started pixparty) and so it is not a revenue stream, just another channel to get content off the phone and onto the web which is great for users but bad for site owners.

(pp allows videos and pixs to be in the same galleries)

When your only source of revenue is on Sand Hill Road you need to sell out fast and big or you’ll die.

I can’t believe how lousy uploaded video looks in YouTube, especially when compared to something like VideoEgg.com — YouTube is like the MySpace of video WTF OMG LOL