Hot on the heels of last week’s update, we are thrilled to announce the latest release of Qik for the iPhone, extending Qik’s leadership in this new market and featuring:
You can see a sample video here: http://qik.com/video/246435
SXSW is one of the major annual events in our world of web and entertainment – if you haven’t been to Austin for the fun, you’ve no doubt heard all about it.
We’re going to be at SXSW next year, and is excited about two proposed panels which would feature Qik. If you’ve registered with the SXSW site in order to vote on panels, you can also vote for these, too. All it takes is one click!
Our proposed panels are:
Too Much Lifecasting: Do You Want to Watch Me Pee? – Bored at work, you stumble across your friend’s video feed. He’s obviously forgotten his camera is on and breaks into a horrible rendition of “Eye of the Tiger.” After five minutes, and the addition of 5 curious co-workers one of them wonders out loud, “Why are we watching this?” Good Question. VOTE HERE
Tinkerers Unite: Let Me Show You How it Works – Memorable moments growing up: loosing your first tooth, your first kiss, and the first time you smashed your R/C controller just to see how it worked. On this panel, notably curious individuals discuss our natural urges to tinker and fix, often with unsuspecting results. VOTE HERE
The deadline for voting is this Friday, August 29. See you all in Austin!
| Keeping to the theme of increased device coverage for Qik, we are excited to announce that Qik is now available on Samsung SPH-i325 (ACE), a Windows Mobile(R) 6 device, that is supports both CDMA and GPRS/GSM networks. Similar to other Qik supported devices, with Samsung ACE you can now use Qik to stream live to your friends, family and the world with just 1 click of a button.
The Samsung SPH-i325 (ACE) is available from Sprint in USA. To sign up and start Qikking from this great device visit http://qik.com/sign_up |
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iPhone users can now update to 0.3.10. Changes in this release:
Changes:
Known issues:
Get it by checking Cydia or Installer for updates — let us know what you think!
Want to keep up on all the behind the scenes action from the Democratic National Convention in Denver? Qik is really excited to offer two ways of doing just that:
1) Check out the DNC event page, which will display videos from users on the ground in Denver.
2) Embed the Qik/Newsgator DNC widget on your blog or website. This widget will show videos pulled straight from the DNC event page, and will automatically re-size to fit your sidebar or blog post. This is what it looks like:
Just click the “Get This” button on the widget to grab the embed code for your own blog or website.
Newsgator has some other neat activities happening around the DNC, including their sponsorship of the Big Tent, a 9,000-square foot new media center and blogger base in Denver. You can also check out their Big Tent widget, which consolidates feeds from nearly 200 DNC bloggers. Very cool work, Newsgator!
The Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong in the National Day Rally 2008 was seen in action showcasing Qik to an enthralled audience. During the demonstration everyone in the room applauded when they saw themselves live on the Prime Minister Office’s website from his cell phone.
Rather than an ordinary National Day Rally, the Prime Minister of Singapore called this the Multi-Media Super Show. During this rally, the Prime Minister talked about engagement with citizens and pushing for participation through mediums like Qik.
This news also hit the Straits Times at Singapore. To quote:
BETTER ENGAGEMENT. PAP welcomes the liberalisation announced by the Prime Minister. This will increase the opportunities for Singaporeans to give their views and allow political parties to better engage cyber-citizens. PAP will operate responsibly within the new and expanded boundaries to inform, educate and reach out to younger voters through various platforms. Overall, our goal is to create a conducive environment, whether online or within the general public, for political issues to be discussed seriously and productively, to help find solutions for challenges that Singapore faces.”
Here’s the article on Straits Times titled “Yes to factual footage”.
You guys come up with so many good videos on a daily basis – often, we’ll email one another at Qik HQ with links to particularly fun ones. Tonight, one came through from our Michael (@michaelf) that really made me smile: a tribute to Qik using cans of Skol (“dip” – aka chewing tobacco). Qikker dmb41302, Ian Miller, has a great imagination. Thanks, Ian!
On 17 August at 7pm Singapore Time (4am PST, 7am EST), the Prime Minister of Singapore, LEE Hsien Loong, will be using Qik and streaming video live from his cell phone that will be broadcasted straight to television. This can be watched live on qik.com/ndr2008 and qik.com/ndr_2008.
Who would have thought that a chance meeting back in August 2007 with Alvin Lai, a student from National University Singapore (NUS), then also studying at Stanford as a part of the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) program would eventually lead to this. Back in August 2007, I met Alvin through Facebook and met up for coffee at the Starbucks in Sunnyvale, CA. It was an instant connection – a sharp, smart, entrepreneurial web developer, who believed in our vision of Qik. In matter of months he became an extended part of the Qik team, our very first 1st pre-alpha tester and getting his friends involved in testing Qik. He also introduced us to the NOC program through which we had the pleasure to hire a few interns as well. Fast forward August 2008 – we now have the Prime Minister of Singapore talking about Qik and broadcasting it straight to TV. Who would have ever thought a chance meeting through Facebook would lead to something like this.
As most of us have been out enjoying the sun, Qik’s developers have been working day and night to bring you the world’s first live video streaming application for the Apple iPhone 3G! From the wonderful feedback we get from our fans, we know how eager you all are to get streaming on the iPhone and therefore we have decided to launch straight into public beta.
This is a beta release (case in point: mute is not yet functional) — you can expect regular updates of this application over the coming days and weeks. You can get Qikking with the iPhone 3G (and earlier models running iPhone OS 2.0!) by doing the following:
Instructions using Cydia:
Instructions using Installer 4 Beta:
“Qik’s Mobile Video Streaming Service Passes Rigorous Year-long Nokia Screening Process To Receive Nokia Support in Taking Application to Market Worldwide”
Qik is the only live streaming service that was selected by Nokia as a part of the Forum Nokia Innovation Series 2008. The selection was made after going through internal Nokia reviews and screening by consumer focus groups around the world. The service was particularly noted for its low latency, reliability and quality in various network conditions. Further, Qik is also now featured on Nokia.com.
Link to Nokia’s Press Release   |   Link to Qik’s Press Release.
Ramu Sunkara, CEO of Qik, discusses Qik in the Forum Nokia Innovation Series video.