MTV Super Tuesday Citizen Journalists with live mobile to web broadcasts from Flixwagon

by: Bena Roberts Sunday, March 9th, 2008

I just saw some videos from MTV’s army Street Team -08 citizen journalists. They were really good and a great way of educating consumers about mobile to video services. I then saw this press release from the end of January it’s slightly old, but still highly relevant.

What happened?
Basically MTV put together a Street Team of citizen journalists. They used the Nokia N95 device and went out recording videos for Super Tuesday in the US. They then delivered polls and reviews instantly online.
How?
An innovative application, provided by Flixwagon, powers the mobile broadcasting technology by allowing anyone with a capable 3G phone to stream live video to the Internet and store it for later viewing. ”Flixwagon.com is changing the way people share life experiences,” said Eran Hess, President, My Frame Inc. ”The Choose or Lose campaign is an excellent example of how Flixwagon can empower people to broadcast their own unique perspective of Super Tuesday from their mobile phone and share it live on the Web with millions of people.”
What we think?
OK, if you don’t know FlixWagon. You should and you will! Watch this space…

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Comment made on March 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am

Shelby Said:

I’m the GA reporter for Street Team ‘08, and I’ve been doing this “citizen journalism” thing starting with YouTube for about a year and a half. I gotta tell ya, our Super Tuesday experience with the N95’s broadcasting directly to MTVNews.com and having those stories re-packaged for on-air purposes was a huge step in new media. I had to run out and buy my own N95 just to keep up (the ones we used were loaners).

I did a recap of our effort, including a highlights reel of my Flixwagon footage, here:
http://shelbinator.com/2008/02/12/a-long-week-in-georgia-cit-j/

Comment made on March 14th, 2008 at 5:56 am

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