David Nahmami from Orange spoke today at Web 2.0 on Orange Pikeo, Soundtribes and Bubbletop. I had seen a similar presentation nearly a year ago at Orange Partner Camp in Orlando.
GoMo News has written on these services a lot and the basis of each of the service remains the same:
Pikeo – picture saving, storing and sharing
Soundtribes – music, user generated content and promoting unsigned or independent bands
Bubbletop – RSS syndication in a very simple format.
But what stood out the most for me was the work Orange is doing with in Second Life on the Orange Island.
Basically, Orange teamed up with a band called Clint. They went to Paris and they played live. But no one saw them live. People only saw and watched their Avatars (and their live voice) on Second life.
There was a huge concert on the Orange Second Life Island see
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/soundtribes-goes-live-on-second-life-/1959039928
The escapism of this on live vs avatar live is disruptive. (I love it!)
Out of Pikeo and Bubbletop – where there are a lot of similar competitor services – Soundtribes stands out as a huge potential for Orange to take its services to new levels in the youth market.
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