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Take Peek Into Your Local Courtroom with OpenCourt
Courts in the United States are not just about high profile litigation and murder cases. Most of the grunt work of the U.S. legal system is done in district courts and chances are you have probably been there contesting speeding tickets or for some other menial rite of legal malaise. Yet, what you do not know about the legal process could hurt you the day you show up and are not prepared.
OpenCourt is a project by WBUR, the Boston University affiliate of National Public Radio, funded by the Knight Foundation to increase knowledge and interaction of the legal process by placing a streaming cameras in courtrooms. A couple of MacBooks Pros, a Canon HD camcorder and Livestream and you have your very own reality television.
A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall
Whenever there is a conference or event, there's a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they're seeing on stage or in and around the venue. Twitter has always been the microblogging platform of choice in this scenario, but starting today, they just might have new competition from Brightkite, the mobile social networking service that's making a name for itself among the early adopters.
Qik Comes to Mass Market Phones: Mobile Live Streaming Goes Mainstream
Live video streaming while on the go has always been the domain of relatively high-end smartphones like the Nokia N95. Starting today, however, Qik is also opening up its service to a large number of popular mass market phones from Nokia and Sony, making it one of the first live video streaming service to do so. The Java ME-based application is now available for download from Qik and the company is also enlisting the help of its users for a private alpha test of a few more Nokia phones as well.
Flixwagon Launches New Platform
Flixwagon, one of the top providers of live video broadcasting applications for consumers, has just announced the launch of a new telco-grade platform targeting both mobile carriers and media organizations. The platform is designed for integration with carriers' handsets so that their users will be able to stream live video from their phones directly to their blogs, social networking sites, video sites, and more, simply by using the Flixwagon mobile application. With this platform, they are paving the way for news organizations to incorporate more citizen journalism and user-generated content into their online offerings and TV broadcasts.
Livestreaming From Qik and Flixwagon Comes to the iPhone
It's no secret that the iPhone lacks video recording capabilities, which has served as a huge roadblock for companies and services that would like to introduce services that take advantage of video capabilities. For users that love to livestream or lifestream from their iPhones this is also a huge drawback. Well worry no more iPhone heads because Qik and Flixwagon have both introduced their livestreaming apps to jailbroken iPhones!
We'd like to warn all of our readers that jailbreaking your iPhone is not illegal, however it does void your warranty with Apple.
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