<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Qik kicks Yahoo&#8217;s new video&nbsp;service]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so disappointed. Yahoo just turned on <a href="http://live.yahoo.com/">a live video service</a>. It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080207/p135#a080207p135">the top item on TechMeme</a>. I thought I&#8217;d try it here at LIFT. But, I find some bad things:</p>
<p>1. The service doesn&#8217;t work. Says &#8220;Yahoo! Live is an experimental release. We&#8217;ve experienced heavy traffic and are taking a breather to tune things up a bit.&#8221;<br />
2. It doesn&#8217;t work on cell phones like Qik does.<br />
3. It doesn&#8217;t record live sessions.</p>
<p>This is the best that Yahoo can do?</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
<p>Compare to Qik. Which lets me start a live video in two clicks on my Nokia phone. And interact with a live chat room.</p>
<p>Or to Ustream. Or Justin.tv. Or BlogTV. Or Stickcam. Or Flixwagon.</p>
<p>Speaking of Qik, I&#8217;ve put up a few videos from the LIFT conference up <a href="http://www.qik.com/scobleizer">on my page</a>. They also professionally recorded each session and those are now up on <a href="http://www.nouvo.ch/liftvideo">the LIFT08 speech page</a> with more coming soon. I&#8217;ll give you a list of what I found interesting. My favorite session so far was of Eric Favre, inventor of the Nespresso machine, but the video game sessions this morning were very good too.</p>
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