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This was an interesting post, Dan.

On one hand, you provide a keen glimpse under the covers of some services that
will have to smooth some of the bumps in the road if they plan to aspire to true
mass adoption

On the other hand, though, you seem to be taking an approach of "Here I am.
Entertain me." For some of these services, that may be missing the point.

Some people do get a certain enjoyment out of idly watching large numbers of
Twitter streams, but plenty more don't. For them it's just a handy way to keep tabs
on people they're already interested in -- and to let their own connections do the
same.

I was watching Mogulus last night for the first time, and for the people in that CES
channel, they were getting something they simply could not get anywhere else:
realtime, high-quality video straight from CES, in a very casual setting, while
chatting with others who were there for the same thing. It was compelling. It's not
without its frustrations if you're sitting in a channel with nothing going on, but as
people get more sophisticated with notifying their viewers when a stream is about
to start, that too will improve.

For Qik, this (alpha -- and we mean it) service is such a new thing, people DO take
videos of the strangest, most non-compelling things. Frequently starting with their
feet. It's live video from a cell phone -- there's a certain novelty that makes people
want to try it even if they have nothing to say.

But for others, it is an incredibly powerful too. It enables people to capture a
moment, live, and to interact with their viewers in realtime, with nothing more than
the tools they were already carrying: little or no planning is required (although a bit
of planning can go a long way towards improving the experience). Sure it has its
limitations, due to everything from the state of 3G in this country (very rapidly
getting better) to the nature of rolling out something like this to begin with: there
will be bumps. But that doesn't mean there aren't gems already -- and we're just
getting started.

Things like Dean Kamen describing his greatest invention, his inspiration, and his
outlook on life, captured impromptu while Scoble was taking a walk between takes
on his main network:
http://qik.com/video/6923

Finally, I don't know if you were on the test list for the newest version, but the
quality just keeps getting better, too -- and we still have a great number of
streaming developments yet to come online:
http://qik.com/video/6570


cheers,
Michael @ Qik

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