The New Year is fast approaching and we are teaming up with the BBC once again to find out how you plan to ring in the New Year. Whether it’s a night on the town with friends or a night of New Year resolution planning with family, we want to see you how celebrate the New Year all around the world.

Simply join the A global New Year celebration! event on Qik to share your celebrations. The BBC will feature selected contributions on their website, and perhaps on television!

No matter where you are, this is your chance to reach a global audience with the BBC. So join the event and when that countdown begins, make sure you get out your phone and start Qikking!

Happy New Year!

Once again, the much awaited MACWORLD is here! What’s a brand new year without new Mac goodies for all the Apple fans?

If you’re going to be in San Francisco for Macworld, please come to the tweet-up that the lovely daynah has helped us to organize on Monday night! Details are here. We’d love to see you there!

As we journey into Macworld ’09, I’m sure we will have a whole bunch of great Qik footage right from the event. Not everyone can be on the ground in San Francisco for the fun, but no matter where you are, you can check out what your fellow Qikkers are streaming from the event here. And if you’re there at Macworld, please do add your own videos!

We are looking for the coolest video from Macworld. It could be a demo, an interview, or your expression of joy/love/madness for any Mac product or service. Be creative! We’ll pick our favorite and showcase it here on the blog, and send out some goodies to the creator of our star video.

Have a good time at Macworld – and happy Qikking!

Boy do we have a holiday gift for you all . Our Windows Mobile team just cranked out support for some 20+ additional phones so that you can Qik all your holiday moments. This includes support for the Palm Treo 800w, for which quite a few of you have been requesting support.

Also included in this build:
- Ability to utilize external flash memory so that you can Qik longer in disconnected mode or under very poor network conditions.
- Better experience for touch devices through on-screen functions that come up when you tap the screen on the phone.

Palm:(our first Palm device support – yay!)
- Palm Treo 800w
- Palm Treo Pro (alpha support)

Samsung:
- Samsung SGH-i900/i908/ SCH-i910 (Omnia)
- Samsung SGH-i907 (Epix)
- Samsung SCH-i760
- Samsung SGH-i780 (Blackjack3)

HTC-based:
- HTC Touch Pro
- HTC Touch HD
- HTC XV6800
- HTC TyTN
- O2 XDA Trion
- T-Mobile MDA Vario II
- Vodafone 1605 VPA Compact III
- Orange SPV M3100
- Dopod CHT 9000
- Dopod 838 Pro
- DoCoMo HTC Z
- Qtek 9600
- iMate JasJam
- AT&T 8525
- Swisscom XPA v1605
- SoftBank X01HT
- Vodafone PDA 1605
- Vodafone PDA 9600

Amoi:(our first Amoi device support as well)
- AT&T SMT 5700
- Orange SPV E610

Motorola:
- Motorola Q Music 9m

As usual, if you have any issues, comments, questions – drop us a line at winmo@qik.com or at our support forum.

Ho ho ho! It’s that time of year – Christmas, Hanukkah, and the rest of the winter holidays are here! Once again, it is the time of the year for joyous celebrations and the exchange of holiday gifts. Don’t forget the FOOD!

We have so much to be thankful for this year, time for some great fun and sharing. All of us at Qik will be Qikking our holiday moments, and would love to invite everyone to do the same this festive season. Qik your special moments!

We’ll pick our favorite holiday video to win some goodies – just add the tag holiday08, or include that tag in the title of your video.

Happy holidays – and happy Qikking!

This past 1 year has flown by so fast. It is hard to believe that only last December we launched our private Alpha!

Come join us with your friends and family (over 21) and let’s celebrate our 1st year anniversary and party with other local Qikkers!

We are celebrating at:

The Little Fox Theatre
2215 Broadway St,
Redwood City, CA 94063

So mark your calendars for Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 from 7:00-10:00pm!

We always like to see what fun and creative ideas you all come up with so we hope you will show up in a Tacky Holiday Sweater!!

A prize will go to the Qikker with the Tackiest Holiday Sweater! So be creative! Also, be sure to nominate yourself or a friend by letting us capture a Qik Video of you at the front door and you could win cool Qik swag!

-Must be over 21
-Cash bar
-Hosted snacks

We hope to see you there! RSVP on our Facebook event page

Here is a little preview of how the Qik Team is preparing for the Holidays!

I sure hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving! I spent my first ever Thanksgiving in Portland with some friends and the spread of food we had was extremely sumptuous – cranberry salad, pumpkin pie and not forgetting the turkey!

The Qiks you shared with us were filled with many heartwarming moments, including a Thanksgiving surprise for Mama and a family Thanksgiving at Disneyland. Not to mention the Black Friday Qiks that showed heaps of goodies from your shopping trips. Remember the Thanksgiving and Black Friday contest? We have a winner!

I’m happy to announce that mattmckee from the US has won a $50 Starbucks gift card and a pack of Qik swag! Matt, thanks for capturing your family’s huge Thanksgiving spread so enthusiastically. You gave us a great, fun glimpse at something very special!

Enjoy our favorite Thanksgiving Qik!