Olivelink's person-to-person video and audio streaming
Olivelink is a new product that looks pretty impressive. It's a bit of video server software that you can run from your computer (with a broadband connection) to any number of people you specify. This allows for a sort of podcasting of video, right from your desktop to outsiders.
What's most interesting is that this builds on technology like Sling Media, which allows you to watch TV you have at home from anywhere, by letting you broadcast your own video out to anyone on earth, either to specific private users or to the world. What's also cool about this idea is that it uses your home broadband connection to transmit video, so instead of users having to upload huge video files and worry about their website bandwidth, they can provide the media from their unmetered home broadband connections.
I believe technology like this could really be the thing to give video blogging a shot in the arm and I can't wait to see what bloggers do with this technology. [via rootburn]
Nice start. Mac support would be nice as well. Hope they work on this.
Posted by: sig | March 07, 2005 at 05:40 AM
Great boon for the amateur porn wannabes.
Posted by: davedeal | March 07, 2005 at 01:15 PM
Can you podcast to a Tivo? That would be cool.
Posted by: TivoPod | March 07, 2005 at 03:07 PM
What everyone is going to want to do with this is show the birthday party video to grandma and grandpa two states over.
Posted by: Ray Setzer | March 09, 2005 at 07:45 AM