Saturday, April 5, 2008

Simple Live Streaming



I'm streaming live from the beautiful city of Algiers using . . .
1. A cheap video camera,

2. My laptop computer, and

3. An internet connection.
You can see the trees and hear the traffic outside my window. You can also hear me typing. I plugged the camera into the laptop, opened a website at NowLive.com, click a few buttons and we're live.

Easy as pie.

This is a useful highly-portable tool for broadcasting events like press conferences to a larger or distant audience.

1 comment:

Ric Cantrell said...

Re: Social broadcast companies.

The Utah Senate uses NowLive as our live broadcaster and they have been stellar. We also created a YouTube channel to back up the live stream. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff uses USTream.TV. I'm sure there are other good companies out there but NowLive works well for us.