• Cellblock: Fast Video and Image Vlogging

    Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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    I’m actually quite intrigued by this simply because it could be a great way to put out “breaking news” at shows or events. This is nothing new: you take some video or an image and it pops up in a Cellblock window almost immediately after sending, without transcoding or other nastiness.

    The service uses a standard email address – presumably you could just email content from your desktop, but that wouldn’t be any fun – and posts content immediately on receipt into an embeddable player.

    http://www.cellblock.com:80/flash/cellblockPlayer.swf?cbId=llYPadzeCQEuTaQYUqan&mute=onStart

    The upload was, in fact, instantaneous with nothing to do on my part. The real value could in in live-blogging events for immediate broadcast, but that’s a limited application.

    For a bit of fun, however, give it ago. You don’t have to add your own cellphone number unless you want the enhanced version, so it’s relatively safe.

    UPDATE – Not sure why there’s no audio.
    UPDATE 2 – Just realized that you, too, can livebloggogogo! Email funtimes@cellblock.com and rock out!

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