{"id":835,"date":"2006-04-19T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/comvu-pocketcaster\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:04","slug":"comvu-pocketcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/comvu-pocketcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"ComVu PocketCaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I came across a fascinating article from last year about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/telecom_mobile\/pocketcaster\/\">ComVu PocketCaster<\/a>, an application that facilitates LIVE (yes, live &#8211; as in right this second as it is happening) videocasting from a mobile device (such as my brand new Cingular 8125).\u00a0 The article is from my all time favorite newsletters at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/\">Springwise.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Springwise aggregates and presents mind bending ideas and trends sent in by their vast global trend spotting network &#8211; I&#39;m one of 8,000 registered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springspotters.com\/\">springspotters<\/a>, too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So, I immediately signed up for a free account on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comvu.com\/Index.aspx\">ComVu<\/a> (still free while in beta), downloaded the software to my laptop, synced my device to load the software, opened the software on my device and selected the &quot;start&quot; button which started the LIVE videocast.\u00a0 Within less than 5 minutes, I had signed up and was streaming LIVE video <u><em><strong>from my mobile phone<\/strong><\/em><\/u> that could be accessed at the same moment by anyone with an Internet connection &#8211; absolutely mind blowing to me.\u00a0 While I have seen plenty of other &quot;on demand&quot; archived videocasting options (and of course live webcasts from a PC), this is the first LIVE streamed option I have come across for use with mobile phones.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I also saved my first try (well second try, as my actor wasn&#39;t very &quot;cheery&quot; in the first try) with their &quot;archive&quot; option, so you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comvu.com\/Live\/?iuistjen\" target=\"_blank\">see the results<\/a>.\u00a0 I used the lowest resolution, so the video quality is not great.\u00a0 With the ComVu account, you also get your own URL to share the live and archived videos and you are provided a quick link to post the video to popular blog accounts (like Blogger) and an RSS feed to your archived video page. How amazing, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I came across a fascinating article from last year about ComVu PocketCaster, an application that facilitates LIVE (yes, live &#8211; as in right this second as it is happening) videocasting from a mobile device (such as my brand new Cingular 8125).\u00a0 The article is from my all time favorite newsletters at Springwise.com.\u00a0 Springwise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}