If you like Twitter, then there is a good chance you are going to like Kyte.tv, a new service being launched on Monday by San Francisco-based Decentral. The service allows anyone to publishing their own “television channels” which are available on mobiles, personal computers and eventually television. This is the latest start-up to capitalize on the MeTV trend.
In an earlier post NewTeeVee wrote:
Users snap a video (or a photo) with their camera/video phone and then send an email with the attached file to their Kyte account, and a few seconds later the video is transcoded and playing on your channel for all to see. If you do have a compatible phone (or live outside the U.S.) you’ll be able to do cool things like life-streaming, where your phone takes a picture at a set interval and broadcasts it on your account — a real-life stop-motion film.
Decentral raised $2.25 million in funding from Draper Richards, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Atomico (Skype-founder Niklas Zennström’s fund), and Ron Conway. If you can’t wait wait till Monday, then GigaOM readers can click here and use the invite code “gigakyte.”
7 comments so far
12:29 AM PT
…just us nuts still up (or at least posting to/reading blogs), Om…’bout time for some zzz’s…at least for me… :-)
1:06 AM PT
By golly, this looks fantastic. What a great twist: Twitteresque indeed.
Only issue is their Flash detection code seems a bit spotty for Safari on MacOS X. I’ve sent them an email, we’ll see where it leads. Could be because I’m using a WebKit nightly however, think they’ll support that? :D
5:43 AM PT
If you like broadcasting your thoughts, also check out Commentist (www.commentist.com) — just launched this weekend!
Cheers,
-Yee
6:38 AM PT
Comvu (www.comvu.com) has a similar online video product. It is very cool and lets you send live video from your mobile phone in real time to groups of friends on mobile phones or PCs.
7:17 AM PT
Steve
The ZZZs were a good idea, except i have not been able to sleep much trying to think of the implications of Kyte.tv and all. anyway i hope you go some shut eye.
7:20 AM PT
Yee,
checked out commentist. it is nothing like kyte.tv - interesting concept, but not sure why i would want to use commentist.
7:51 AM PT
I guess others will catch up very quickly…but I really like the mobile instant capture. You can expect some real crazy stuff…
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