Parents keep watch on newborns with hospital webcams

California's St. Jude Medical Center is one of the first hospitals in the country to implement a webcam system called NICVIEW, which gives parents a virtual window to their newborns. CNN reports.

A camera mounted above their incubator provides couples with access to a live video stream that they could watch from their phones, laptops or computers.

Most of the babies in St. Jude's neonatal intensive care unit, which has 14 incubators, are born prematurely and are released within four or five days. Some, however, stay for months. Being able to check in on them helps with the separation.

About half of the sessions originate from Web-enabled devices such as iPads, iPhones, Droids and Blackberries. The password-protected webcam system is also being used at a handful of hospitals across the country.

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Feature Movie Shot entirely on Nokia Phone To Open in L.A.

A feature movie shot entirely on an Nokia N8 is about to go on show in Los Angeles, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The movie, Olive, and which director Hooman Khalili says cost less than $500,000 to make, is billed as a film about a little girl who “transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word."

Mr. Khalili has made the first five minutes available online.

Read more.

Picture of camphones at rock concert a best seller on Getty/Flickr

This picture was taken by Michael Bodge, and is Getty Images best selling photograph on Flickr.

Getty and Flickr teamed up two years ago and there are now 250,000 photos in that collection.

[via All Things D]

iPhone 4S camera, speed will appeal to healthcare

The new iPhone 4S’s camera boasts a resolution that is six times that of the previous iPhone, and is capable of 1080p video recording. By raising the bar for camera phones, Apple is making it easier for patients to record physical symptoms via photos and video, which they can send to doctors.

[via MobileHeathNews]

Reel Health: Tanzania

Reel Health: Tanzania Promo from Reel Health on Vimeo.

Reel Health: Tanzania is a project of Remedee that explores how mobile technology can be used as a powerful storytelling and media-making tool in low-income and underrepresented communities around the world. [ThinkInnovation]

In the summer of 2010, a team of filmmakers trained ten medical and health students in Tanzania how to use cell phone cameras to document their lives and their country’s health crisis.

The videos you see here are proof that you don’t have to be a professional filmmaker to tell a powerful story, and you don’t need bulky, expensive equipment. With 5 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide, mobile technology is opening a doorway for citizen media makers anywhere in the world to become agents for change.

Watch all videos here.

Students use cameras, YouTube to reveal Misrata siege

Libyan students are using mobile phones, an amateur video camera and YouTube to offer a glimpse of the war in the besieged city of Misrata where journalists are prevented from reporting freely. Reuters reports.

... Under their Freedom Group channel, the group has posted some 130 videos, some of which include chilling footage of fierce street battles. Others depict a ghost town where residents cower indoors, often several families to a dwelling.

The channel has garnered half a million views since the first video was posted on Feb. 25 showing graphic footage of bloodied bodies. A voice-over says they were rebels killed by Gaddafi loyalists.

Read more.

Camera Phones in the delivery room

This week’s New York magazine features an item by Tina Cassidy on the trend–and controversy–of parents photographing, texting and sharing the birthing process in real time with the aid of camera phones. Forbes reports.

We’re familiar with the trends that led to this new frontier: up-to-the-minute tweets tracking cervical dilation; Dad holding his phone by the foot of the bed so faraway Grandma can feel like she’s right there; Facebook pages updated from the recovery room with video of the new arrival.

And we’ve seen what happens when those impulses are checked: In November, a Maryland medical center joined other hospitals in banning photography—potentially a dangerous distraction, not to mention evidence in the event of a lawsuit—until several minutes after the baby is born, only to spark a backlash from indignant parents.

Forbes

How to record quality video on your mobile

MobileActive.org on how to record quality video with your cameraphone, with feedback and advice from journalists, journalism students and citizen reporters.

Ultrasounds transmitted by cell phones

New technology by a company called Mobisante is using cellular phones and existing wireless networks to transmit ultrasound images from patients in remote areas to hospitals.

[via TechFlash]

See how it works on CNN news segment.

With Video Everywhere, Stark Evidence Is on Trial

An interesting article in The New York Times, on how the courtroom experience is becoming a lot more complicated because we now live in a world that is always on camera.

Legal experts say the technology shift could lead to harsher experiences for jurors, and could put pressure on judges to re-examine the balancing act that they have long used to determine what kind of evidence makes its way into court.

Read full article.

Deaf inmates Allowed to use Videophones in Virginia Prison

Following a lawsuit for discrimination by deaf and hard of hearing inmates at Powhatan Correctional Center in Virginia, the prison will become the first major institution in the country to install a videophone so that hearing impaired inmates can communicate with family and friends.

[via The Washington Post]

Online video use expanding on mobile phones

The latest survey of web video usage from Bytemobile shows that smartphone users are watching it in ever larger quantities. ComputerWorldUK reports.

For the third calendar quarter, the Bytemobile data shows:

-- User-generated videos on YouTube and Google on average are about 48% of total network video traffic (adult content is 31% of the total)

-- Video content is already a significant percentage of smartphone data traffic, with iPhone users currently generating more of it than Android: For iPhone users on average, 42% of their total data traffic is video, the number for Android user is 32%.

-- Video traffic picks up and grows steadily throughout the day, but the peak hours are in the evening, which also tracks the distribution of mobile users. Bytemobile says this indicates video is increasingly an entertainment-based selection, outside of work hours.

Read more.

Is Video Killing the Concert Vibe?

Lighters held aloft at rock shows have given way to camera phones. Meet the backlash. The Wall Street Journal reports.

At most concerts these days, when the houselights go down, the tiny glowing screens go up. As more fans mark the moments with smartphones, cameras and pocket-sized video recorders, a new kind of digital divide is emerging. Music lovers who try to document and share the essence of concerts are squaring off against those who think that just defeats the purpose. The debate is drawing participants from both sides of the stage.

Read full article.

Related:

-- Stealing the show? Cellphones capture concerts

-- Bootleg video tapes of concert shows flourish

-- Camphone shots at gigs is illegal

Steven Levy on FaceTime and Sharing the View

A great read from Steven Levy in Wired on the the iPhone 4's Facetime feature, making everyone a potential live-video broadcaster.

... For now, FaceTime is available only when both parties are using iPhone 4s over Wi-Fi connections. But let’s assume that those restrictions fade away. (Apple says that it sees FaceTime as an open standard, so users might eventually be able to connect with heretics peering into Droids or BlackBerrys.) Will we want to make FaceTime calls? Personally, I found using FaceTime to transform a phone call into a video conversation rather stressful. The effort might be worthwhile for couples separated by vast distances, but for most chats, who needs (or wants) to see the other party? Besides, phone calls are much more pleasant and productive when you preserve the illusion that the other party is giving you their undivided attention, a deception that’s impossible to maintain under the unblinking gaze of a camera.

Also, using FaceTime in public places is awkward. You have to hold the phone at arm’s length—otherwise, your face fills the screen like some Diane Arbus outtake. To observers, this maneuver makes you look like a dork.

I’m still really excited about FaceTime, though. But it’s because of what happens when you use it with the other camera—the one on the rear of the phone. When you do that, FaceTime turns your phone into a live videofeed.

So instead of seeing you, the other person on the call can see what you’re seeing. I expect people to use FaceTime when they go to concerts, meetings, or the zoo. (“Look, Grandma, Timmy’s taunting the tiger!”) Another inevitable development will be a FaceTime equivalent of the iPhone’s Send to YouTube video option: a one-click way to share your current reality with the world.

This makes everybody a potential live-video broadcaster.

Read full article. Image from Daily iPhone Blog.

MobileASL sign language by cell phone

Researchers at the University of Washington have begun testing new technology that allows for American Sign Language to be transmitted over U.S. cellular networks, taking advantage of the video conferencing features now available on many mobile phones. TechFlash reports.

From from the UW press release:

The MobileASL team has been working to optimize compressed video signals for sign language. By increasing image quality around the face and hands, researchers have brought the data rate down to 30 kilobytes per second while still delivering intelligible sign language.

MobileASL also uses motion detection to identify whether a person is signing or not in order to extend the phones' battery life during video use. Transmitting sign language as efficiently as possible increases affordability, improves reliability on slower networks and extends battery life, even on devices that might have the capacity to deliver higher quality video.

Click on YouTube link for video explaining the research and showing the phones in action.

Full press release.

A new 'indie' genre: iPhone 4 filmmaking - and it's not porn

CNN reports on artists and bloggers making movies with the iPhone 4.

Some artists are optimistic about the iPhone 4's potential as a mobile video-editing tool.

Users say iMovie app has potential to open doors for those with great ideas but no money.

Read full article. Image above, Michael Koerbel and Anna Elizabeth James collaborating on one of the first short films shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4.

UK Police trial new audio-visual phone

New technology to help people who have difficulty using voice telephones is being trialled by the Avon and Somerset police, reports the BBC.

The system brings together voice, video and text simultaneously in phone calls.

A video-relay service is also planned so that deaf and the hearing-impaired can communicate via sign language interpreters.

... People who would benefit from the system can sign up to take part in the project for free at www.myfriendcentral.com

Read full article.

Hello! Your Psychiatrist Will Skype You Now

Telepsychiatry is a growing trend in mental health, reports TIME, quoting Dr. Kathleen Myers, who treats a teenage age patient up close and personal despite the 75 miles between them.

As director of the telemental health service at Children's Hospital, she points to one of the benefits of a videoconference: unlike a phone call, it allows doctors to observe a patient's facial expressions and body language. "You can talk back and forth in real time — it's off by a millisecond — so you get immediate reactions.

... So far, anecdotal evidence indicates that virtual psychiatry visits work just fine for children and adolescents. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, an era in which teens feel more comfortable in front of a camera than they do face to face.

Read full article.

Related: - Phone Chats During Therapy

Disaster Photography: When Does It Cross The Line?

A thought provoking read from NPR.

The endless pictures and videos of the disaster are made possible by the 24-hour news cycle, and the advent of camera phones, twitter, etc. Maybe 20 years ago, the barrage of images of corpses and wailing human beings with amputated limbs would have been a shocker, but today we watch them with our morning coffee, or over dinner.

Why?

The rise of the camera-phone

Everywhere you go these days, there are people with camera-phones – many of us record, document, and upload the minutae of our lives. But, ultimately, should we be doing it just because we can?

[Read full essay in The Guardian]

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Cornell University researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk. [via Physorg.com]

For Cornell's website:

For those who are deaf or hard of hearing, cell phone use has largely been limited to text messaging. But technology is catching up: Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language -- the same way hearing people use phones to talk. Sheila Hemami, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and graduate student Frank Ciaramello say the technology allows deaf people "untethered communication in their native language."

... Standard videoconferencing is used widely in academia and industry, for example, in distance-learning courses. But the Mobile ASL team designed their video compression software specifically with ASL users in mind, with the goal of sending clear, understandable video over existing limited bandwidth networks.

Read full article.

Relateld:

-- Sign Language On Your Cellphone

-- Glove converts sign language into spoken words on a cell phone

-- 3G phones for the visually and deaf impaired

-- 3G Breakthrough For Deaf Customers

-- Video phone help for deaf people

-- Sign language for your cellphone

-- Can You See Me Now? - Sign Language on Mobile Phones Tested

Young Iranians use mobile phones to video events

With traditional forms of communication blocked, Iranians are using technology to keep the world informed about events. The BBC reports.

Middle East political and security analyst James Spencer told the BBC: "As foreign correspondents find their work restricted and their visas curtailed, the ubiquity of the mobile phone... is coming to the fore.

The ability to send graphic, near live-time footage, often then uploaded to YouTube elsewhere, is an incredibly powerful tool.

"This raw imagery has little need for translation or editing, and often under-cuts the State's message, both in content, and by pre-emption."

He added that tags like "IranElection" on the social networking site Twitter have attracted huge numbers of "followers".

These tweets often reference a YouTube clip or a URL, thus further increasing the audience, he said.

A YouTube spokesperson said there had been an increase in activity for all types of videos related to the Iranian election.

Related: - Iran Protests: Tech Tools at Work

Camera Phones to Interpret Visible World for Blind

iVisit, a company out of Santa Monica, California that specializes in video teleconferencing applications, has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to turn a mobile phone's camera into an eye for the blind.

Using advanced image recognition software to identify what is in front of the phone, the system reads off what it is seeing.

Read full article in MedGadget.

Nokia Point and Find video

Nokia Betalabs have put together a video highlighting the key features of their Point and Find service that enables you to get up to date info about a product or service, on your phone.

In the above video, Sophie-Charlotte Moatti of Nokia explains how the service works. Once you’ve downloaded the app from pointandfind.nokia.com, you can fire it up and point your device’s camera at a movie poster. The app will quickly locate the movie and with it a host of options, including reviews, ratings and even your nearest cinema.

[via Nokia Conversations]

A vacuum cleaner controlled by videophone

Spotted on Unwired View, a cleaning robot which can be controlled via 3G mobile phones.

Built in collaboration with the Korean company Microbot, the CW100 robot – which is actually a very smart vacuum cleaner – uses video calling to send live images to your phone. By seeing what the robot sees, you can remotely control its actions, helped by your phone’s keypad.

KTF says the new robot can also be used for monitoring kids, elders or pets at home.

[via Phone Reviews]

Cell Phone Video Clears Man of Rape Charge

A UK businessman has been cleared of raping a university student after jurors were shown a video of the sex session taken on a mobile phone. The footage showed the woman 'actively' performing a sex act on him.

[The Daily Mail via Switched]

Cell phones help filmmakers reveal unseen Africa

Resourceful African filmmakers are using cell phones tell their stories in spite of political censorship. CNN reports.

Kiripi Katembo Siku, an art school student from the Democratic Republic of Congo is one such director who shot his first film using only a mobile phone.

The ingeniously devised "Voiture en Carton" ("Cardboard Car") provides a rare glimpse of street-life in Kinshasa, the country's capital, while highlighting the lengths filmmakers must go to in circumventing the eye of the law.

While the country's name implies freedom of speech, filmmakers in the country's capital are restricted by government censorship.

To get around these problems, Siku came up with a novel plan.

He attached his mobile phone to a toy car, set it to film, and gave it to a young girl to pull behind her on a piece of string as she walked through the streets of Kinshasa.

The film runs for seven minutes, during which time the toy car stops and starts (it also upends a number of times and has to be righted by Siku's young camerawoman) giving viewers a clandestine look at life in the capital -- the dancing feet of children, some teenagers gambling, and at one point a United Nations jeep passing by.

Siku is one of a number of filmmakers in DR Congo who say using a mobile phone allows them to film in ways that were previously impossible.

Read full article.

NFL Games Go Wireless

For the first time Thursday, a National Football League game -- the Cleveland Browns vs. the Denver Broncos -- will be broadcast on Sprint mobile phones as part of the wireless company's exclusive partnership with the league. That partnership deal is valued at about $500 million over five years.

[The WSJ via engadget:mobile]

A glimpse of Soweto via your cellphone

Mobile social network The Grid has launched Mobikasi, South Africa's first geo-tagged documentary for cellphones, which explores youth culture in Soweto. IOL reports.

Users can explore Sowetan youth culture on their cellphones from anywhere in South Africa through The Grid's map interface, or by physically touring the famous township and watching documentary clips on their phones at the locations where they were shot.

The location-based documentary looks at people, music, fashion, social issues and places of interest. Instead of showing the twenty-five minute documentary in a linear fashion from start to finish, Mobikasi splits the content up into twenty-five inserts of one minute each.

Each one-minute clip covers a different topic that is relevant to the youth in Soweto and is geo-tagged to the location where it was shot.

Read full article.

Music film 'shot on mobile phone'

Radio 1 produced a feature length music film shot just using mobile phones. The BBC reports.

Radio 1 has produced the first ever feature length music film shot just using mobile phones.

Bands such as Wombats and Black Kids were given mobiles to use at festivals over the summer, while music fans were told to film their experiences.

The hour-long film, "Shoot the Summer", was shown at the Electric Proms and is now available online.

Radio 1 producer Hugh Garry went round festivals handing out mobiles to punters, all of which were returned.

Kashmir's mobile phone chroniclers

... As the mainly Muslim Kashmir valley erupted into protests last month after a row over transfer of land in the region snowballed into a movement for freedom from India, armies of mobile-phone toting youngsters began trawling the city to record the events. The BBC reports.

The images and recordings of those momentous events have been swapped between friends, or put up on popular video sharing sites.

One of those, YouTube, spits out nearly 250 results when a search is done for "Srinagar protest" and many of these clips have been put up by youngsters from the valley. "

[via Smart Mobs]

Capturing the Moment (and More) via Cellphone Video

The New York Times writes up how early adopters are now using their mobile phones to send live video broadcasts. They’re streaming scenes from their daily lives — like trips to the mall, weddings, a new puppy’s antics or even a breaking news story that they happen upon.

"People have moved on from texting,” said Carla Thompson, senior analyst at the Guidewire Group, a marketing research firm in San Francisco. “Just typing in what you are doing is no longer enough. That’s why the field of live video streaming is burgeoning.”

Once they have the right phones and plans, users can aim their built-in cameras, press a few buttons and, with the right software, be broadcasting within seconds. Their videos can be seen on blogs, on social networking sites like Facebook or, among other places, on the Web sites of companies that provide the software and services for streaming, like kyte or Qik.

Viewers can respond immediately to videos, typing messages on their keyboards, for instance, and sending them along to a live session. The typed chat appears instantly at the bottom of viewers’ screens."

National Geographic launches new mobile division

National Geographic is launching a new mobile division to further develop its mobile content and games business.

Next month, the organization will launch a WAP site for all of its news, images, music and videos that will be tied to company’s magazines and TV network.

[via mocoNews.net]

Taking soccer to the small screen

Across Europe, however, the lure of professional soccer is so strong - and the hunger of some fans so great - that some mobile operators, especially in Britain, are beginning to report a rise in mobile viewing. The IHT reports.

"... In Europe, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange so far are the mobile leaders in live sports. T-Mobile has live viewing packages in Britain, Germany and Austria. Vodafone's English Premier League games are available to all subscribers through its Vodafone Live! portal.

Dirk Wende, a T-Mobile spokesman in Bonn, said live soccer has become the most popular form of video on T-Mobile cellphones, followed by boxing, where the compact action is easier to follow on a smaller screen."

Designer Collections Packed Into an iPhone

STYLE.COM, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPhone application offering videos and pictures to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week next month on their phones, within hours of the last model’s exit from the catwalk. The New York Times reports.

"It is no small measure of the demand for immediacy in fashion that customers can now turn their cellphones into shopping portals. Ralph Lauren announced last week a mobile version of its online store, and Chanel introduced its own iPhone application last month that offers video from its fall haute couture show, as well as the ability to direct-dial stores that carry Chanel around the world.

Others have brought runway shows to phones, such as an ahead-of-its-time Fashion Week offering from Sprint in 2006 (fashion people were so not into Sprint), but Style.com’s application is likely to be the most comprehensive. It is designed eventually to include photos and videos from hundreds of shows in New York, Paris, London and Milan."

Flixwagon and MTV Think broadcasting live from the National Democratic Convention

MTV yesterday deployed a number of street reporters armed with Flixwagon-equipped mobile phones to cover the National Democratic Convention in Denver. A similar number of reporters will also be on the scene using Flixwagon at the upcoming Republican National Convention.

The street reporters are making live videos throughout the four days of the convention from their mobile phones directly to their pages on the MTV Think website, in another installment of MTV's Choose or Lose campaign. The street reporters can easily broadcast live video and capture the atmosphere of the conventions in real-time without the need for large camera crews or bulky equipment.

Live mobile-to-web broadcasting is changing how journalists’ research and report on events such as these conventions, delivering a real-time, interactive experience that can be delivered to a broad audience.

Some of the videos and street reporters can be found here:

-- http://think.mtv.com/profile/trevorFmartin

-- http://think.mtv.com/profile/cgeraci25>

-- http://think.mtv.com/profile/MiGoNev

-- http://think.mtv.com/profile/janeflemingkleeb>

Press release.

Can You See Me Now? - Sign Language on Mobile Phones Tested

A group at the University of Washington has developed software that enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. [via Cellular News]

"UW engineers got the phones working together this spring, and recently received a National Science Foundation grant for a 20-person field project that will begin next year in Seattle.

This is the first time two-way real-time video communication has been demonstrated over cell phones in the United States. Since posting a video of the working prototype on YouTube, deaf people around the country have been writing on a daily basis.

Links to related articles on video phones for the deaf or hearing impaired.

How to watch your iPhone videos while driving

This gentleman likes to watch videos while he drives at night. He places his iPhone on his car's dashboard and watches the reflection on the windshield.

He wears a headset while he watches, but usually with just one ear bud inserted "so that I can hear the traffic and whatnot."

[via boingboing]

Equally as nuts: - French Truckers Drive 'By Ear' So They Can Watch TV

Lollapalooza Videos Are a Two Way Street

The Lollapalooza music festivalkicks off on Friday in Chicago, but fans and bands are already mingling on the site's video section, which is broken down into two channels. Wired reports.

"Channel 1 will feature backstage interviews with bands, fans and other exclusive stuff shot by two Lollapalooza employees using one "real" camera plus a more compact one.

Meanwhile, the aptly named Channel You features videos shot by fans who are encouraged to "film anything you can with your phones and cameras" on site or at home as they prepare for the festival.

Both sections will be updated with new uploads before and during the event, giving concertgoers a chance to say which bands they think are going to be best, review the shows they've already seen and share their experiences at the event. Those who aren't attending can watch unlimited clips on both channels for free."

Pupsight. For a Dog Day Afternoon

Pupsight is a system and device that lets your pets share their day with the world. Owners can set the parameters of how their dog's camera uploads images and video to the net. They can also check in on what their dog sees from their mobile phone. Pupsight is the next chapter in doggy blogging, as well as a new way to define the modern guard dog.

Picture from diana eng

At Newseum, Mobile Phones, Bloggers Upstage Old Media

When the Newseum was last open to the public in 2002, a prominent feature was Walter Cronkite's hulking TV camera. Today, when the journalism museum reopens in Washington, a spotlight will be on Jamal Albarghouti's phone. Bloomberg reports.

"Albarghouti used his mobile phone's camera to record video during last year's massacre at Virginia Tech University. The graduate student e-mailed his footage to CNN, bringing the news to the nation before the networks got anywhere near the scene.

That shift sums up a new mission of the interactive Newseum, which at $450 million is among the most expensive museums ever built: to reflect the revolution in the media, where citizen reporters, bloggers and Web sites have overtaken an industry once dominated by a few centralized news sources. "

Send a Video Message to the Presidential Candidates’ Cell Phones

The general public has a new way to get their voices heard by the presidential candidates: cell phone video messaging.

Start-up Mogreet, out of Venice Beach, Calif., recently launched a service that lets people send personalized video messages to the presidential candidates’ cell phones.

Geared toward the younger set, voters can go to www.mogreetthevote.com to pick a video on a topic that matters to them and then personalize the video with their own text message. Mogreet gave each campaign's communication director a cell phone to which the message will be sent.

[via Fox Business]

Bootleg videotapes of concerts flourish

With high-tech, camera-equipped cell phones now standard gear, venues are increasingly finding their anti-video policies stretched to the limit. Columbas Dispatch reports.

"We're dealing with thousands of people on a given night," said Blake Schilling, director of event services at Nationwide Arena. "We do the best to our ability to catch everyone. Obviously, when you're talking about thousands of people, it's pretty difficult."

So difficult, in fact, that within hours of Linkin Park's Columbus performance, videos of the show started popping up on YouTube. As of last night, viewers could choose from more than 50 clips.

... With most cell phones capable of shooting video and small digital cameras able to film lengthy live footage, policy enforcement can be a losing battle.

"You spend the night hunting flashes down," said Scott Dickson, director of event services at the Schottenstein Center. "Sometimes we have to weigh how tough we want to be."

But it's easier to prevent videotaping than get the videos off the Internet, said Edward Lee, a professor of copyright and intellectual property law at Ohio State University."

« Live from Davos on my phone »

Robert Scoble is blogging « live from Davos on my phone » from the WEF. So interesting. More great coverage in both writing and video on Jeff Jarvis' buzzmachine.

Interesting post today on Swiss Television's blog (TSRBlog) also present at Davos, pointing out that the WEF's rules and regulations are somewhat out-dated. TV crews and cameramen are only allowed in the sessions one by one so as not to create a disturbance, while dozens of participants are videoblogging the conferences live - like Scoble.

MMS realtor

A new application for house sellers enables them to create and send virtual property tours to a home buyer's mobile phone using MMS. 160characters.org reports.

"The new web application called Cellyspace from Boston based Skycore enables realtors to compose property slideshows using images, audio, video and text.

They then choose a unique keyword for their content which can be promoted on signs and print advertising. When home buyers text this unique keyword to Cellyspace's SMS shortcode, the slideshow is sent to them phone using MMS."