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Live video streaming from the mobile phone

Ustream and Qik are two live streaming services that allow users to stream events to the web as they happen. Both of these services are now available on the iPhone and Qik is available on Google Android and other platforms like the Blackberry.

Why is this cool? So say we have an Idealist volunteer event and we want to share it with people that can’t come. We can stream the event live from an iPhone or an Android phone.

In Iran right now, there are protests still going on over the election from last June. If protesters could find a way to connect to the web without being censored, they could stream the actions of the Iranian Basij forces to the rest of the world.

Very powerful technology!

Socialware

Many companies and governmental agencies have difficulty deciding between granting staff access to social networks for work purposes or flatly granting no access. Many administrators see social media as a time waster while others see it as a tool for productivity.

Socialware aims to change this by allowing IT admins to block only certain features on networking sites as opposed to blocking the entire site.

For example “users may access LinkedIn but there may be features that the employee is not permitted to access. The feature is flagged with a message that tells the user they do not have permission to use it.”

Hopefully this will increase social media engagement in the professional work environment. I’m curious to see how this will effect site traffic and media promotion.

Microsoft Pivot

Microsoft Pivot is a platform that allows users to interact with large sets of data on both a micro and macro scale using an intuitive and visual approach.

You can quickly sort through very large sets of data, from Kiva loans to magazine covers to Wikipedia articles, Pivet allows the user to search, dissect and manipulate collections quickly and easily.

This tool is very powerful but difficult to really appreciate until you see the video. Check it out -

If you want to try it out, you can get the invite code here (near the bottom of the article) and download it from Microsoft (PC only).