Monday, February 21, 2011

Videos live views and stored away

Quietly emerged two years ago, social networks in which texts are replaced by sounds and images are installed on the Internet thanks to the spread of smartphones with cameras and mics. One of the most popular is the Swedish network Bambuser. com, that advertises free live video from an iPhone or an Android phone.

The quality varies, but in all cases, the magic of live full play to the fullest. The issuer of the sequence is pinpointed on a Google map, which appears on the screen of the viewer next to the video. Once released, the clip is stored on servers Bambuser, and can be viewed offline. As a social network in text mode, each member has a personal page Bambuser, his fans, his followers and followed.

Note that Bambuser began to colonize other networks by providing gateways to display videos on a dozen of them, including Facebook and Twitter. Bambuser is still a small start-ups, but it is already approaching one million registered users, not to mention the occasional viewers. According to its founder Mans Adler, it is present mainly in Scandinavia, the British Isles and the Middle East: "We have an active community in Egypt says Adler, who told in pictures the youth uprising at the end of 2010.

"The day of elections on December 5, 2010, Bambuser received nearly 10,000 videos, trying to show fraud by the government. In January, demonstrators have used Bambuser to show the extent of the uprising: "With services like YouTube delayed," says Adler, when a protester was spotted by police while he was filming, it can be confiscated his camera before he managed to send its sequence.

With Bambuser when the police seized the smartphone is already too late. The images were viewed live and are stored away on our servers. "The price of fame, Bambuser was blocked by the Egyptian authorities the day after the occupation of Tahrir Square, in conjunction Twitter. Today, the stream of live images from Egypt took over.

You see amazing street scenes, as a barrage of men and women of all ages in the middle of traffic, or meeting of angry strikers in a chemical plant. Since mid-February, videos released by demonstrators began arriving in Bahrain. Other networks have preferred to rely solely on sound, more efficient bandwidth and memory.

Thus, British start-up offers a service AudioBoo audio messages with photos, maps and Google gateways to the major networks. AudioBoo, free for individuals trying to make money in the market for Web sites of mainstream media. It already counts among its customers websites of the BBC, the Guardian and Al-Jazeera, which used it to cover events duCaire.

Yves Eudes Article published in the edition of 22.02.11

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