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 Send to email | Video Site VTap Makes Your iPhone Video Better in PALMGOOG |  By Silicon
el 31-Mar-2008 |  A smart new feature from Web/mobile video site vTap: A free, personalized feed of videos based on, among other things, the stuff you put on your Facebook profile.
What's vTap? One of a handful of sites that aggregates video from all over the Web, including Google's (GOOG) YouTube, Dailymotion, networks like ESPN, CNBC, and CBS, MySpace, Hulu, etc. Unique twist: vTap transcodes video into formats your mobile phone understands. For example, it converts Flash video into H.264 on the fly, so you can watch video on your iPhone that you ordinarily couldn't.
What's the point of today's new feature, a personal video feed? Browsing the Web is tricky on most phones, so it's handy for the site to build a playlist of stuff that it thinks you'll like. And by accessing the stuff you post in your Facebook or MySpace profile, it might, for example, know that you already like Wilco and 'The Office', and queue up some clips.
We installed the vTap app on Facebook, which created a feed of videos for us to watch based on our favorite bands, books, TV shows, movies, etc. Then we used the Facebook app to send our phone a link to the feed. That worked smoothly with our aging Palm (PALM) Treo. After popping vTap open in our phone's browser, we got to watch a goofy video of Ricky Gervais over the air. Slick.
One problem: The feed we created through Facebook didn't seem to get saved to our vTap account. Going back to vTap on our phone later brought the feed back up, but logging into the vTap site from our laptop (on the same account) got us an empty feed. We also noticed the Hulu content wasn't working. And it's a bit tedious sifting through search results on an iPhone we borrowed. But assuming vTap can work out the kinks, we think it's exactly the kind of (free) video that people will want to watch on their phones.
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| iPhone 3G unboxing video: Special Delivery! | | We put together a short video unboxing of the new iPhone 3G for you, and while it’s pretty short, nothing says “iPhone” better than one of our videos. That made absolutely no sense. Seriously though, you should get a kick out of the video if nothing else. And we do show a nice comparison to [...]
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| Will Ferrell's Game Or Die Coming Soon? [Humor] | | The Will Ferrell backed comedy web site Funny Or Die may be getting a video game themed spin-off, according to NewTeeVee. Site CEO Dick Glover told NTV that what ultimately may be named Game Or Die, will be "a very broad-based site" with a video g [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Apr-2008 by Michael McWhertor in funny or dieHumorWill Ferrell
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| BlackBerry Bold video mimics iPhone, except it?s fake |  Yeah, we’ve heard it all before. “How many different ways can you present a phone on video?” “No, it’s not copying the iPhone commercials and video walkthroughs.” “You’re an Apple fanboy!” Blah, blah, blah. But we’re sure we’re not the only ones a bit surprised to see RIM offering a video sneak peak at the [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jun-2008 by The Boy Genius in OpinionsVideoBlackBerryboldfakeiPhoneRIM
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| Flixwagon brings video streaming to your iPhone |  You didn’t think the new iPhone announcement would slow down the developer community did you? Flixwagon has just announced a new piece of software that allows users to broadcast live video from any jailbroken iPhone. Here’s a quick rundown from Flixwagon on the feature set of their new application:
After Flixwagon is installed on the phone, [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Jun-2008 by Joshua Karp in SoftwarealphaAppleflixwagoniPhonestreamingVideo
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| iPhone 3G is one step closer to being unlocked |  The iPhone dev team released a teaser video on Sunday hinting that they are closer than ever to unlocking the iPhone 3G. The video shows a custom application running on the PMB8878 baseband processor. They successfully connected to the baseband, used a custom AT command to launch their baseband application and voila they return a [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Oct-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in AT&TAppleNewscarrierdev teamindependenceiPhoneunlocking
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