Lights, Camera, Sightspeed

MTV is looking for VJs for their Total Request live show, which often features Sightspeed-driven videos by fans. Sightspeed is arguably the best video-calling VoIP soft phone available. Andy Abramson talks about the MTV casting call and some of the positive aspects of this development, including a new type of social interaction enabled by VoIP.

Earlier this year, Skype promoted a special contest for fans of alt-rock band Coldplay. The two young women who won got to Skype with members of the band for several minutes. Now consider the Japanese TV broadcasting via Skype. So there is great potential for celebrities to connect with fans via IPTV over VoIP IMs, either live or recorded. And with video interaction through Sightspeed, Skype or similar soft phones, citizen video could become the source of unique TV or IPTV content, such as 11 Cameras (which is supposedly a view of the lives of several people via 11 video or webcams viewed through instant messengers).

Written by ewriter on October 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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