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Broadcast Machine lets you publish your video online easily

In the midst of a Internet TV movement, I'm happy to report the Participatory Culture group has released their first beta of Broadcast Machine. Broadcast Machine is an integrated upload, download, bittorrent, and gallery web application that is simple to install and run, letting you upload your own video shows and share them with anyone online. The folks behind BM are also working on a desktop video player, dubbed DTV, which I'm guessing will be an auto downloader/cataloger that works like podcasting does (only for video in this case).

I setup a test site on my own server, using Creative Commons video as a source, and it took all of ten minutes to deploy the php package and add an item. The app looks great for a first beta and I didn't have any problems with the process. If you've been video blogging, have a broadband connection, and are looking for ways to distribute video yourself, check out Broadcast Machine. It's a great little package.

by Matt Haughey May 23, 2005 in News

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