Videoblogger mini-convention!
Cory Bergman April 14th, 2008
Inside the vast reaches of NAB’s convention floors, not one, but three videobloggers were shooting at the same small booth at the same time (ok, so I’m counting myself as one of them.) The booth? Mogulus, where Andy Plesser from Beet.tv went live (on the web, natch) for 15 minutes, interviewing anyone within reach (including myself.) While he was on “the air” (what do we call it now, live on “the web?” or “the nets?”) the Channel 10 crew from Microsoft showed up and starting interviewing the Mogulus CEO (on tape.) Not to be outdone, I interviewed him, too.
(That’s Beet.tv on the left, Channel10 on the right.) I’ll post more later about Mogulus, which just did a white-label deal with Gannett’s newspapers.
4 Comments Add your own
1. Aaron | April 14th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Mogulus is the tool that’s going to make newspaper websites (and Joe Blogger) competitive with TV sites when it comes to live video.
TV sites can stream live video because they’ve invested millions in microwave and satellite trucks.
With Mogulus, you need a $200 3G camera with a cell phone to get 50-75% of the quality of a TV site’s streaming video.
Add in a laptop with WiMax or Wi-Fi and an $800 HD camera, and the quality is indistinguishable from a TV site, but at 1% of the cost.
That, as they say, is a disruptive technology.
2. Anonymous | April 14th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
“While he was live” (or “while he was shooting”) works. No need to confine it to one medium.
3. Jordan | April 14th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I know this is random, but does anyone know who the lady is in the pink shirt? She looks really familiar.
4. Aaron | April 14th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I think that’s Laura from Microsoft’s Channel 10.
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