Live HD Video of the Endeavour Launch

The launch of Endeavour Space Shuttle will be streamed live on the web by . A special website by the NASA has been installed at SpaceVidCast.com. The live stream is enabled by the personal broadcasting service ustream.tv, where another presence is located with chat and full screen features.

The NASA is most active on the internet and offering another video site at NASA TV. There occasionally live streams from the ISS are broadcasted, complete missions and educational stuff.

The correction above has been caused by a comment written by an operator of SpaceVidCast.com. SpaceVidCast.com generally streams space related streams. There is no involvement of the NASA in this site.

Personal Broadcasting from Smartphones and the Web

Bambuser provides an application for live broadcasting. The service enables to broadcast by digital cams, webcams and from equipped smartphones. Mobile broadcasts may happen by connection to GSM Networks or Wifi. If there is only a slow connections available, the quality of a stream may become adjusted by the image size. Further features are sharing of archived videos and a chat function within the video player.

To watch videos there are a search engine and a geographical assorted directory available at the homepage. Further general information and information on how to download the application are available at the FAQ page.

Stickam starts Broadcasting Support for Smartphones

One of the pioneers of live webcam communities has started to offer a live video application for video broadcasting using smartphones. It is Stickam, one of the largest live video networks. The service is available to members and linked at the left of the Live Streams Page. This is an interesting case, as Stickam is much larger than other live video services.

Mashable has an article about the launch with a comparison chart with a couple of live video services. It seems that the estimation and description as a niche market made at the first article about live video is true. Nevertheless I think about this as an emerging trend, that will arise with broader adoption of mobile broadband services, better knowledge and broader dissemination of smartphones. Another newcomer, zaplive.tv, that is not mentioned at the chart already has reasonable viewing stats.

Stickam is coming up with another effort to make their service a success. They have launched pay per live, which is in invite only mode up to now. This service will pay people for live streams of events.

Live Video by Mobile Phone Camera for Bloggers

Personal broadcasting by using a mobile phone camera is one of the most amazing new applications, which has already often been covered at this blog. Posts about this are sampled by live video.

One of these services is Kyte.tv now offering a solution targeting bloggers and small sized publishers at their company homepage. The solution enables to stream live and recorded video either from a webcam or by mobile phone directly to a blog or website. There are a couple of nice and useful features integrated like chat, rss and sms notifications. All features are included at the players at the Kyte.tv homepage.

Another great service that enable video broadcasting by using a mobile phone is zaplive.tv. I already heard about several events that have been streamed there live. They got a schedule to be informed about upcoming shows.

At a first post in May about live mobile video I estimated that this is a niche with about some thousand active users. Meanwhile popular channels have been visited several 100.000 times at Kyte.tv.

Qik, Live Broadcasting from Mobile Phones

Qik is a personal broadcasting services, which enables everyone to stream live video from a mobile phone into the web is open now to everyone. Features they offer are live video at the homepage, groups, a search for people and an event page. It seems that the page is very active. While visiting there have been 29 live broadcasts and 376 recorded shows within the last hour.

Personal Broadcasting and Live Video become Hot

Several new live video and personal broadcasting services came up with a couple of new features. Two video services do offer microblogging functions or an integration for live posts. Flixwagon is another live video service enabling broadcasts by using a smartphone. One can stream live video to their website and store it to embed it elsewhere later on. Furthermore they are offering a widget for live video broadcasting to blogs or homepages and a feature for live posts at twitter. A microblogging function, too, has Seesmic. Seesmic is a community for video conversations. They got microblogging with a following functions and near live conversations. Live video again is offered by Seero. They are calling themselves a geo broadcasting community. Videos at Seero are assorted at a map and tagged by gps data. It is a global community to experience locations and places. And there is zaplive.tv, a personal broadcasting community at the web offering channels, which is available in several languages.

Personal broadcasting seems to become a hot issue. This is due by the ease and fun and to the things that one can do with it. One can easily set up an own online show, become a dj or even a live reporter by using some software on a smartphone. It is revolutionary to the expense to set up a broadcasting channel some years ago. And live broadcasting may become a killer application as publishing companies are eager to embrace user generated content to enrich their services and to acquire up to date reports. For user generated content there are already a couple of marketplaces for photos and video content. Last but not least it is advantageous for publishers by covering a broader range of events recorded or live and a general or occasional business opportunity for everyone.