We were at the edge of our seats when we saw Steve Garfield discussing how technology can be used for good with Laura Fitton and Dan Bricklin – yea! Dan Bricklin the inventor of spreadsheets. This one is definitely goes into the pages of our history books. Thank you Steve for enabling us to be a part of this.
People start talking about Qik.
Scobleizer: Video funding tap wide open
TechCrunch:
Qik streams live video from cell to Web
GigaOm: One to Watch: Qik Live Video
Gizmodo: Qik Streams Live Video From Nokia Phones, Beats YouTube By a Parsec
Reiter’s Report: Qik launches software for live streaming videos via cellular phones
“Holy s**t. I can stream live video to you now from anywhere at anytime.” -Robert Scoble
Bhanu Sharma, one of our alpha users,
shows Qik to Robert Scoble and he
blogs about it resulting in a record day in terms of number of users requesting access to our invitation-only alpha.
A couple of days later Robert starts using Qik and blogs about it breaking the previous record.
Our patent pending technology is about adapting efficiently to different devices, different networks in the best possible manner to deliver a high quality of experience, which we define as:
Fast: It’s all making the video really live. We tag the stream at every path it takes it from the time a person clicks Stream to it showing up on the web. The entire path is then analyzed weighed against various parameters and optimized to ensure speed of delivery.
Best possible Quality: Our developers are obsessed with quality and we are on our way to develop the best possible video quality from mobile devices using numerous techniques that we have filed patents for (#60/989,711). These techniques are about examining and assigning importance to the resources available on the device and network and making multiple passes at the stream to ensure good quality for the live stream and progressively improving quality for viewers joining late and for playback after the stream is completed.
Simple: From getting up and running to streaming, sharing and interacting with viewers, we keep analyzing every step so that every action is quick and simple.