I was browsing http://www.liveside.net last night and saw this article on a really killer Windows Mobile application called Live Media GPS. If some of you have heard of Qik, it’s the same concept. It has a software component that runs on your GPS enabled Windows Mobile phone and allows you to stream videos on the web. The portal is not as rich as Qik’s portal yet. What happens is when you choose to broadcast a video, it won’t allow you to select off the bat that you want to publish your video right away. The mobile client has SMS notification though I haven’t tried it out yet. I’ll update this post when I get to try it out. The output is streamed via a Silverlight player, and on the right hand side, you’ll find the GPS location plotted on Virtual Earth. COOLNESS!!
Live Media GPS is an addition to their already existing Live Media application (which gets installed when you install the client) that allows much more functionality like making the video public, viewing your “buddy cams”, viewing the public broadcasts. Apparently, aside from videos, you can also stream other media such as images, presentations etc. Will have to find a buddy to test this out with.
Live Media also comes with a desktop client which I unfortunately have not been able to try because they don’t currently have a version that supports 64-bit *sob*. I’ll probably try it out on one of the other machines here once I have the time.
“This is a test of the emergency broadcast system…”
http://www.ix-m.com/gps-beta/PlayBroadcast.aspx?ixgps=jawss_27711_11092008030309&embed=1&style=0
If ever I get kidnapped, I’ll have a piece of software to help people find me.. provided they don’t keep me where the GPS & 3G don’t show 😐
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