Qik live streaming

January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment


I have been watching Charles Frith’s antics in Beijing through his Qik streams, and have been yearning to test this technology myself, and now I can. Qik allows you to stream videos live from your mobile browser directly to web. It is really simple to use and the quality is surprisingly good. One of the best examples of this technology being used so far is to report on current events a la MacWorld where Qikkers streamed the latest product demos from Apple at the event. SMS Text news have also demonstrated it’s great capabilities as a shopping assistant in this post. It’s still in Alpha phase, but i’m really looking forward to seeing this grow over the next few months and for those who are interested, you can follow my streams here.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Innovation, Mobile, Social network, Technology, Video, newsRight 

Adidas originals build your own festival

January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

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Adidas have teamed up with Vice magazine in Australia to launch a great new site allowing users to create their dream music festival. The Originals Festival site allows users to select from a range of artists within their $100k budget, pick their running order, pick their location for the event and then design a poster to advertise the festival on their MySpace pages and blogs to friends. The users with the highest attendance (most number of visitors) will win tickets to the Berlin Festival 2008. I spent most of my money on Underworld and LCD Soundsystem so mine was more of an evening affair rather than the full festival!

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Community, Events, Music, Social network, newsRight 

Second Life forced to close banks

January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Linden Lab, owner of Second Life, have been forced to close all banks within the virtual world due to fraudulent business dealings within the virtual world. They state that they were never responsible for the transactions but solely the software. Linden lab have said that banks must ensure they produce proof of an applicable government registration statement or financial institution charter. Technology Review first published the story when they cited the possibility that one virtual meltdown may have produced losses of up to $700,000 in real money.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Financial, Social network, newsMiddle 

New York underwear flash mob

January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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On Saturday, 900 people gathered in New York for the latest flash mob courtesy of Improveverywhere for the 7th annual No Pants Subway Ride. Escorted by the NYPD, participants had to spread across three subway lines and stretched six per car. The event also took place in Boston, Washington DC, Portland, San Fransisco, Chicago, Toronto, Baltimore and Salt Lake City. Source: Trend Hunter

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Events, Experiential, newsRight 

Top 20 gadgets from CES 2008

January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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So this week CES 2008 has been running in Las Vegas and Jeremy Gutsche has compiled this really nice round up of the top 20 gadgets to come out of the conference in this Trend Hunter report. Personally I want to play with the BigStage software to turn myself into a 3D avatar as my Wii avatar just doesn’t cut it anymore in comparison to this.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Design, Events, Gadgets, Innovation, Technology, newsRight 

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