QIK Live Streaming Internet Video from Your Phone

There are many streaming video tools out there for watching video. Not that many for recording video, even fewer to record live video from your phone.

That’s what Qik does. It records and broadcasts live video right from your phone.

I must say I am impressed.

Qik on Nokia n95From grabbing the application to sending out video live took all of 20minutes, anyone with a more reliable internet connection would be able to do it in a quarter of the time. Quite a few smart phones are supported:

Nokia S60 phones: N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93i, N95, E50, E51, E61i, E65, E70m E90 Communicator, 3250, 5500, 5700 Xpress Music, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, 6121 Classic, and 6290.

I can see a lot of bloggers switching their iPhone for a n95 just to get access to this system.

Your streams can be public or private, although I had a bit of an issue with all my streams being set to private and now I don’t know how to make them public - D’oh!

Just like YouTube, you can easily link or embed the created videos, but most importantly viewers can watch in real time and send comments as you stream. Impressive!

You can see videos as I add them to my profile, but you would be much better off watching the fun and games over at the SxSW group from folks such as Scoble and the b5media crew.

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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