Hopefully I will get round to blogging about Digital Storytelling ’10 eventually, but there was something particular that I wanted to blog about.
Blinked.tv was shown to a group of us at the event and, if it actually works, might open doors. Blinked.tv is a mobile application (currently only working on selected phones like my Nokia smartphone) that allows you to do live text, audio and video all in one. You can also very easily switch between any of them with the press of a couple of buttons. It is definitely an exciting sounding way of making multimedia journalism with just your phone. It works with all networks and can be embedded and seen on any website. Blinked.tv also doesn’t take ownership of your content. Whatever you put up on the site is yours and yours only.
In terms of the nitty gritty details of their business though, they’re not making any money at present. Their proposed business model suggests that they will take money off of users who use up more bandwidth once they get to a certain stage. However, this might look like a serious challenger to the likes of Qik, which, whilst popular, can only do streaming video. It’s also free, which makes me even more willing to give it a go.
It certainly might have potential in the field of music but before I can fully stand by these claims, I need to make sure that this works. I’ve set up a test on the Playground.
