Justin.TV Teams With Qik For Live Mobile Streaming
Duncan Riley
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Justin.TV will today start offering live mobile streaming to its users via a tie-up with Qik.
With the new service, Justin.TV users will have a option to stream from a mobile phone directly from their control panel without the need to have a Qik account. The integration is seamless, and the only difference in the video feed will be a Qik logo somewhere on the screen.
Qik has grown rapidly since first launching in invite only alpha testing. Despite not being open for signups, the service has over 2000 regular users (Scoble and Calacanis among them) and is growing at approx. 20% a week. Justin.TV needs little introduction, having created the live streaming genre and gone on to become a highly popular service.
I spoke to Justin.TV’s Michael Seibel and Qik’s Bhaskar Roy prior to today’s announcement. Justin.TV sees the deal as a value add for its users that gives it an edge over competitors. I mentioned Qik’s partnership with Mogulus and Seibel said that Justin.TV doesn’t see Mogulus as a competitor, noting that while their focus is on webcams and quick to use and stream shows, Mogulus is focused on high quality, TV level productions. Roy said that Qik sees the partnership as another way to get their service out to more users, and that after their testing phase they are ready for the growth the Justin.TV deal will bring.
Is very nice, but my country don´t have the services to view video cell streaming.
microsoft just announced acquisition of Rapt and techcrunch misses the gong again as with bebo acquisition.
what’s happening ?
don’t worry, doctork, if you got a life - you will not need to watch JustinTV, especially on cell phones.
HoHo, this is what happens when a group of people who have an edge start to lose it and hold on to old standards, not wanting to change/adapt.
I hope TC understands that its users are its power and it has to be leveraged somehow, by also giving them even more power - why not have an applet for users to submit relevant news stories to TC, so that TC crew selects the juiciest ones and write about them soon after they get out - of course, in addition to what they get from their network of contacts?
Excellent example of two complementing services joining together. I imagine that this will reduce the need for cheezy camera hats which may cause make the unscrupulous bystander a bit nervous.
On a side note Duncan, do you know if Justin.tv has a standardized release-form that its users can print for their respective shows?
^ I can only imagine there’d be an umbrella clause since everything is in real time. For archived clips perhaps a release?
Justin.tv where smart to do this and Qik is more reliable than JTV’s service combined with Laptop and With a EVDO card and a Cam and far less cumbersome to carry around .
Qik works with Nokia phones the most notable is the N95 from Nokia and is far less invasive that the JTV hatcams .
Much greater is to see Qik video streams directly on a mobile phone. I can do it by mashing up Qik and dailyme.tv. In the future Qik will send a Realvideo stream directly to users’ cell phones. The phone will not only be a camera for mobile live video streams, but also a tv set to watch them.
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qik just raised a ton of cash…where is the announcement on that?
I guess they can slump together in the last place of video startups.
let the real era of videoblogging begin!
justin.tv is sooooooo 2007
Smartest business deal I’ve seen in a while. Y! sent my roomy off to SXSW with an amusing setup of hobbled gear and technology to do just this. My comment before she left? Y! should just buy Qik or Justin.tv. Now it appears they should by both if they really want to succeed.
Cheers to Justin.tv and Qik for a smart partnership that actually makes sense.
Bloated Stuff!
I have just signed up to Justin.tv. The sign up form was like: username: i fill in, password: i fill in, verify: i was like, which one?
Well anyway, i think this is interesting.