As Twitter Introduces Periscope, Tech Titans Bet on Live Streaming Video

Reinventing the wheel, but I guess the key is coupling the video with FB or Twitter so someone will actually know you're on (vs. Livestream, etc.).

I'm really tired of these cocky Silicon Valley tech types who graduate from Stanford, then go on to win the app-lottery jackpot. Here we get to see Kayvon Baypour in a swaggering posture, as if to say to the world "Yeah, I'm wealthy now, and I get a lot of women, too.". What he brings to the table by Twitter buying his company, Periscope, is his karmic luck of the draw, not anything terribly new, or even all that useful. Perhaps, he should have named his company 'Peeping Tom', because that's what Periscope's live streaming video app will mostly be used for, I.E., private stuff that would better be kept private. Big political 'gotchas' are unlikely to happen as a result of using Periscope, Meerkat, and any of their cousins, which have been around for nearly a decade now, before the rise of smart phones.

People, please can we stop promoting these tech charlatans and their mostly insignificant pieces of software? And while we are at we need to recognize that we are in a new Gilded Age, and these tech titans are the new Robber Barons. They aren't fun guys, nor are they your friends. They are aggressive business people. The only thing they want is your consumer browsing habits data, which they parse, repackage, and sell for millions of dollars a pop to advertisers and data brokers. This is how come all of their software like Facebook, all the Google products, and rest of them on the Web are "free". You bought it with your collective privacy rights being flushed away.

Isn't it great that a person's EVERY move can now we shared! And here I thought we faced insurmountable problems on Earth.

I would like to have this on my phone to record encounters with police. Not that I expect to have any, but if I could persuade them that interacting disrespectfully with me or beating me or shooting me in cold blood is going to be captured for all the world to see, they may somehow become reasonable.

There are quite a lot of streaming apps available now, and all are:
1. generic, anything can be streamed
2. only useful for streaming
3. started/stopped by the app user

I think more specialized streaming services would stand a better chance, addressing a niche market. We have tested and plan to implement streaming from moving vehicles, directly from the roads. In contrast to the apps mentioned here, ours is envisioned to be:

1. specific, only road conditions/traffic is streamed
2. mostly a dashcam, and thus it is running continuously for its main purpose
3. started/stopped by a remote viewer (only the streaming function), although the app user enables streaming in the settings, and can stop streaming at any time (either manually, or through threshold settings - like battery level or bandwidth limit).

This may end up putting pressure on copyright and the entertainment business. As file sharing has driven the price of recorded/digital media effectively to zero artists have relied more on income from performances. Live streaming is the last barrier, if broken, will end any artistic performance livelihood outside of corporate sponsorship.

Periscope and its twin-like aps seems like the ultimate mechanisms for wasting teen age time in study of their own and their associates' psychological navels. Silicon Valley has repeatedly demonstrated its fixation on get-rich-quick schemes for exploiting ridiculous applications that prove to be built on wishful thinking by would-be billionaires rather than hard appraisal by experienced entrepreneurs. It would be wise for Periscope types to turn their lens on studying themselves before committing time and money to looking for big bucks at the other end of their viewing device.

HEY, I was live streaming before it was cool. Years ago.

It seems unfortunate that the real pioneers in this field, such as Livestream and Ustream, are getting very little attention while the new kids steal the show. It's all about timing and buzz? It shouldn't be. The more established players have broken ground with equipment designed to make a full broadcast experience much easier, less expensive and accessible. (That means you can use multiple cameras and switch between them, as well as bond together multiple cell data pathways for a more robust signal.) Broadcasting from your smartphone has great limitations, but the ease of doing it, I suppose, is the base of its great appeal.

It will take a couple of years to see how this shakes out. In fairly short order, I suppose there will be so many live video feeds that only a very few will get much audience.

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Does anyone see the applications for this in political campaigns?

I do. Boy, do I. Everything from spontaneous, live, targeted speeches to the faithful on any particular topic of the day, to instant responses to attacks from political opponents, even to private news/advocacy/propaganda networks in which a number of different people beam live news and information to the same group of users from the same account.

It's not going to be dogs-in-the-backyard for long. This is huge. I don't think Twitter and the rest realize how huge it might become. And how it might get away from them.

I have a friend who recently started tweeting me links to his Meerkat streams. It was interesting the first time watching his dog run around the yard or his cats playing, but after that, I stopped bothering to watch.

Aside from porn, which seems to be the big use for these types of apps, I do not see the long lasting appeal. It's just another part of the need so many have to over share their lives.

At least a few people will have the opportunity to join the uber rich.

I read the whole article and I don't think it mentioned once that the application only runs on Apple phones. I tried to download it to my android phone, only to find it's not available. It seems to me that this is important, if not pertinent, information.

brands are running willy nilly, signing up for their periscope @brandname handle before anyone else snags them.