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I’m flying into Vegas for CTIA with my multimedia powerhouse Nokia N95. Not only will I be attending ShowStoppers as a civilian (blogger) Monday night, I’ll also be stationed within the Symbian booth during the show for my day job. If time and technology permit, it’d be fun to offer some live video streaming from the floor. What happens in Vegas, doesn’t have to stay in Vegas… as Scoble taught me a few weeks ago. So, please drop me a line if you’d like to hook me up with your alpha software.
Otherwise, my dear readers, keep an eye on YouTube (and ZNF, of course). As the show progresses, let me know what you’d like to check out and I’ll do my best to sneak away and provide coverage. And if you’ll be attending CTIA, drop by and say hello.
Dave Zatz
davezatz@yahoo.com
Update: Both QIK and Flixwagon have kindly granted me pre-release access to their services. Keep the “alpha” status in mind when checking out my CTIA coverage, because it’d never be user error. 
Both provide embeddable Flash widgets, which I’ve dropped into our ZNF Videos page (tab up top). The QIK widget should broadcast anything I’m filming live, otherwise you’ll see an archived video of my last shoot. You can also text chat with me (one-way). The Flixwagon widget offers similar functionality (though I’m not sure about chat), plus the ability to navigate through archived content. You can also directly access my Flixwagon and QIK pages.
I’ve already been asked to seek out the Sony Ericsson XPERIA and Blackberry 9000, plus I’m going to try and attend a Sprint luncheon demo on Tuesday (although they haven’t told me what exactly they’d be demoing – WiMax?). I’ll try to find interesting things to shoot tonight at ShowStoppers and will also show you my little Sling demo station later in the week.
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7 Responses for "CTIA: An Open Letter to QIK & Flixwagon"
I talked to people from Kyte in Austin during sxsw, take at a look at their offering as an alternative:
http://www.kyte.com/platform/pg/kyte_mobile
http://www.kyte.com/platform/pg/view_compatible_phones
…and a Google search yielded this, but seems to be tied to MS Silverlight, so caveat emptor:
http://www.comvu.com/
http://qik.com/davezatz
looks good!
Michael, Thanks for the fast response and assistance getting QIK going. I’ll do my best to shoot some interesting video this week!
Todd, thanks for the tip. I’ll sign up for their beta as well.
I’m sure Xen at Flixwagon can quickly hook you up. They seem to have had an issue with their registration, but he was able to quickly sort things out for me.
xen (at) flixwagon (dot) com
I’ve been trying Qik and it’s great. Just got onto Flixwagon, so we’ll see. Look forward to checking out your live feeds.
@Dave, your Flixwagon credentials are waiting for you in your inbox
@Grant Thanks for the compliment (I’m a girl btw)
Thanks, Xen! Looking forward to also getting it installed, hopefully this AM.
Dave, if you get bored Pizza Expo is going on this week in Vegas too. Lots of free pizza, beer, with girls walking around. Just tell them you are their covering it for “zatz not pizza” blog.
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