Archive for September, 2009

New York Times using Qik to cover protests live

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I love how reporters from the New York Times blog The Lede (Qik user thelede) are using Qik to cover Iranian protests in New York. Videos are being streamed live to The Lede blog as well as their Qik page as they show how activists from the Iranian opposition movement are blanketing the Brooklyn Bridge in green.

Thank you to The Lede’s reporters, including Robert Mackey, for using Qik in such an important way. Being able to watch the protesters’ actions live is riveting, and we’re glad to be able to help bring this coverage to so many people.

Share your Qiks on Windows Live

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

We are always looking at ways you can easily share your Qiks with your friends at various networks with just a press of a button, directly from your phone. So if you have been wondering how you can easily share your Qiks with your friends on Windows Live, now you can do just that thanks to the Microsoft Windows Live services team. It is really a snap and takes less than 30 seconds to set up.

Add Qik as a Web Activity on your profile

From your Windows Live profile page, click Add Web Activities and add Qik from the list of supported networks.

Enter your Qik username and set your sharing options
Once you click add, you’ll be prompted to enter your Qik username and select who you’d like to share these with.


Add Qik


DONE! All your public Qik videos will now start showing up on your Windows Live page as shown below.

Profile page

So start sharing your Qiks with your friends on Windows Live and if you have any questions or suggestions, do drop us a line at support@qik.com.

Send your Qiks to Posterous!

Friday, September 11th, 2009

You can now embed your Qik videos to your Posterous site just by emailing your Qik video link to post@posterous.com.It’s really that easy. Enter the Title of the post in the Subject of the email and put the link in the body of the email and Posterous will automatically embed the Qik video for that URL in the blog.

Send this…

Screen shot 2009-09-11 at 12.25.02 PM

…and it turns into this!

Screen shot 2009-09-11 at 12.27.59 PM

So go ahead, and start posting your Qiks to your Posterous site!

Qik – now a featured application on Ning!

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

We’re excited today to unveil Qik for Ning, the social platform for interests and passions online. By joining forces with Ning, Qik is now available to more than 1.5 million Ning Networks and 33 million Ning Network members.

Ning Network Creators now have even greater choice over the features and applications they can add to Ning Networks to create the perfect social experience for a given topic, interest or passion. Today, Ning Apps are available for e-commerce, information, education, causes and entertainment. To see Qik, please visit the Ning Apps Directory here.

What does this mean for Qik users? Now you can stream live to your Ning Network with unprecedented ease.

Ning Apps extend the Ning Platform by providing more than 90 new diverse and rich applications like Qik for Ning Network Creators. With Ning Apps, a Ning Network Creator can now add Qik to expand the functionality of their Ning Network and increase engagement by their members.

We’re excited to be developing Qik for the Ning Platform, and the functionality this offers to Qik users and Ning Network members. This is just the beginning, though – we’re excited to see where users take this functionality, and we plan to add even more capabilities to this integration.

This is just the latest way that Qik allows you to share your videos with those who matter to you – whether it’s friends, family, or people with a common interest on a Ning Network.

The Ning Platform provides a new way for Qik to reach more people, faster. Rather than being added by individual members, when a Ning Network Creator adds Qik to their Ning Network, by default it’s available to all members automatically, regardless of whether a Ning Network has 100, 1,000 or 1 million members.

“Ning is committed to being the social platform for the world’s interests and passions,” said Jay Parikh, senior vice president of product engineering. “Qik is a great example of the innovative and creative set of diverse features Ning Apps offer the more than 33 million members of Ning Networks today.”

Qik for Windows Mobile touch phones – new UI, improved sharing, better performance

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Windows Mobile Qikkers out there – we have a new version (4.21) now available with a cool new look, much improved sharing to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and better performance and frames per second, especially on the Samsung Omnia series phones. It also provides an easy way to upload existing videos on your phone to qik.com and share it to other networks.

Start Recording
The new touch UI contains most of the commonly used functions available from the viewfinder view and can be set with just a touch of a button.
Start

Recording in progress view
Note the contextual touch menu on the side to quickly toggle options on connectivity, privacy and capture of audio.
Recording

Sharing view
Share now enables you to share using SMS, Email and to your favorite Social Networks with just a touch of a button. You can even toggle the auto upload capabilities to these networks right from the phone by pressing the desired button for greater than 3 secs.

Share

We would love to hear your thoughts on these improvements – so give it a try and let us know what you think by sending an email to winmo@qik.com.