I was catching up on my blog reading late Saturday night when I stumbled on Jeremiah Owyang’s post about about testing a new video site called UStream at the Web 2.0 Expo. My timing was incredible because I clicked over to UStream.tv to check it out and found a LIVE show with Jeremiah talking to Kris Tate of Zoomr.
It was a pretty interesting experience. Jeremiah was on camera talking to Kris on the phone pus a dozen or more of us looking in and commenting via text chat. Before long Kris simulcasting from Zoomr HQ and taking over the show for a bit after Jeremiah went to bed.
The whole thing reminded me a lot of cable access call in shows I participated in while in college in the early 90s. Now with UStream being the method of transmission and anyone with a web cam and a broadband connection being able to set up their own “broadcast studio”. It will be interesting to see how this latest iteration of user generated video takes shape. For my part, I am currently pondering how I would quantify it analytically.
You can check out Jeremiah and his stream from the expo here.
-Ian
What I love about Ustream is the same democratization of broadcasting that YouTube brought about. And in some ways, Ustream is even more democratic, because live video doesn’t allow you to do a lot of post-production.
I don’t think anyone really knows where this is all going to end up, but it should be fun to find out.
–Chris Yeh (Ustream investor)
Ian
Thanks SO much for joining in, we’ll have another one sometime soon!