Instant Audio & Video:
Tools Igniting the Digital World
by Connie Crosby
Internet Librarian
October 21, 008, Monterey, CA

There is no better time
to create a community
of friends who can come
together and execute on
your brilliant idea.
- co-founder of 12seconds.tv (Oct. 9/08)

Ignite the Web!

Building Community

Building Community
• reach out to others like you

Building Community
•reach out to others like you
• be part of a group

Building Community
•reach out to others like you
• be part of a group
• audio creates intimacy

Building Community
•reach out to others like you
• be part of a group
• audio creates intimacy
• video connects to humanity

Which communities
will you engage?

Talkshoe - www.talkshoe.com

Talkshoe

Talkshoe
• create, manage & host your own audio

Talkshoe
• create, manage & host your own audio
• several people talking at once

Talkshoe
• create, manage & host your own audio
• several people talking at once
• record for listening, downloading or
podcasting

Talkshoe
• create, manage & host your own audio
• several people talking at once
• record for listening, downloading or
podcasting
• FREE recording, storage & bandwidth

Uncontrolled Vocabulary -
http://uncontrolledvocabulary.com/

call in or
listen
chat

Creating is easy

Schedule for the future

...and voila!

Widgets for your Web!

Even a Facebook app

Utterli - www.utterli.com/

Utterli
• audio, video, pictures or text
• formerly Utterz
• from phone, computer or mobile device
• cross-post to YouTube, Flickr, Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter, your blog & others

Andycaster

seesmic - www.seesmic.com

Seesmic
•video conversations
• Sept. 2008: 30,000 users
• 5,000 active in the community
• 1,000 very active

Craig Manganello tributes
- Stacey Sunshine

12seconds.tv

12seconds
• Twitter for video?
• be succinct!
• watch on web or via mobile

What will you share?

Where will you share?

ooVoo - www.oovoo.com

ooVoo
• video chat for up to 6 people
• high resolution
• record video chats
• proprietary software
• paid levels

My ooVoo Day

How BIG can you go?

more than 6 ?!?

Tokbox - http://www.tokbox.com

Wild!

Tokbox - http://www.toxbox.com

Tokbox
• web-based (not proprietary
software)
• large numbers video chatting
• confusion!!

Live-streaming video

Ustream - ustream.tv

Ustream
•live video
• chat
• recorded for viewing later
• camera & Internet access needed

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/online-journalism---western

Qik - qik.com

Qik
•mobile live video
• broadcast events
• spontaneous
• check for supported phones

Pistachio live

What’s going to
be hot?

Phreadz - phreadz.com

Phreadz
• social multimedia conversation network
• video, audio and photo blogging
• create via desktop or from mobile devices
• also posts to other systems like blogs,
photo or video sites

Building Community

Building Community
• informal communication

Building Community
• informal communication
• unscripted

Building Community
•
informal communication
•
unscripted
•
let your clients / patrons
participate

creating content
=
engagement

We buoy each other up

“Don’t keep up with
the technologies. Keep
up with the literacies!”
- Howard Rheingold
Image from Paloma.cl http://www.flickr.com/photos/
palomabaytelman/2838443441/

How will you

ignite the Web?

www.crosbygroup.ca/blog/

Hot Resources
• “Passion is Recession Proof,” the 12seconds.tv blog (Oct. 9/08)
http://tinyurl.com/3zjaro
• Dave Nelson, “Welcome New Hosts; Talkshoe Step-by-step
Instructions,” Talkshoe blog (Oct. 5/08) http://tinyurl.com/6npudk
• Erick Schonfield, “The Real Video Twitter: 12seconds.tv,”
TechCrunch (July 24/08) http://tinyurl.com/646c86
• Mike Butcher, “Phreadz - A Little Like Seesmic, but Trying to Do
More,” TechCrunch (May 23/08) http://tinyurl.com/59plws

Thank you!
Connie Crosby
conniecrosby@gmail.com
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