Keeping everyone aware of what you are up to every fleeting, uninteresting moment of your life is a hot area for startups right now. Newly launched Kyte seems to fall somewhere between Twitter and Ustream, two services that let users send a constant stream of data about themselves to interested friends (albeit in very different ways).
Kyte is at its core a media player. Users create an account and set up channels. They can then drag photos, video and text into the channels and interact with people viewing the content.
The service is extremely flexible in its approach to getting content into and out of the service. Users can access their account and add content from their (java enabled) mobile phone, the browser or via email. Viewers can interact with content on the Kyte website, their phone and other websites where users embed content via a widget player.
Kyte can be a place users put occasional content, or a live, Usstream-style live stream of their life. The company says “You could even create a “LifeStream”, a minute-by-minute live show that is published in real-time directly to your MySpace page, website, blog, or mobile phone.”
The company has raised a round of financing ($2.25 million, says Om Malik) from Atomico Investments, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Richards and Ron Conway.
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Nice clean interface.
When I first saw Ustream, I thought, “this would be cool if it had a high quality chat interface” - is this better?
a) Subtle number 1.
b) I think it might be cool for something like almost teaching. Watching and chatting simultaneously seems like a good learning tool. Other than that, I don’t know how much I want a video channel chatting at me.
MIKE I HAVE A IDEA: One I think is great. -
- Have a form to submit you sites; on that form - have the following question:
- ” Describe your site in (2) sentences” -
- I could use this on this - post - so I could easily know - within 10 secs what this company does
I’ve check out google stock it went plumming this morning and jump back up little and then down…
Why?
There will be more such rich media interfaces with launch of the new Adobe Media Player (built on Apollo). One area that has my interest is the Internet TV market (eg- Blip.TV), where highly customised media players integrate programme guides and community features.
Mixercast is definately the leader in the user-created media space. Check out the easy to use, template-based UI, and you can work with ANY media - Video, Audio, Photos, Images, Text or Data.. You can easily post it on anysite or share it via email. Mix it for youself and share it with others..
Create, Mix and Enjoy!
don’t see too many users on this website…how do you upload the content or record it…or am I just confused as hell!?
Congrats on launching this!
Question: any plan to release an API to the service? Opening up an API could make for some really interesting mashup opportunities…
With $2.5 million dollar. I have 56k modem now… I see slow stream.
NOTE: not everyone in U.S have DSL or high speed connection.
I like the old Michael Arrington. He got more ratings than the new Arrington.
Bring him back dude.
He’s got more stories than new ones!!!
Mike, why do you let Microsoft advertise on your website?
Streaming video is incompatible with dial up )
So many twitters everywhere.
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