I’m actually quite intrigued by this simply because it could be a great way to put out “breaking news” at shows or events. This is nothing new: you take some video or an image and it pops up in a Cellblock window almost immediately after sending, without transcoding or other nastiness.
The service uses a standard email address - presumably you could just email content from your desktop, but that wouldn’t be any fun - and posts content immediately on receipt into an embeddable player.
The upload was, in fact, instantaneous with nothing to do on my part. The real value could in in live-blogging events for immediate broadcast, but that’s a limited application.
For a bit of fun, however, give it ago. You don’t have to add your own cellphone number unless you want the enhanced version, so it’s relatively safe.
UPDATE - Not sure why there’s no audio.
UPDATE 2 - Just realized that you, too, can livebloggogogo! Email funtimes@cellblock.com and rock out!
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I’m in dev at Cellblock.com. Thanks for the posting.
There actually is audio - the embed code by default brings this up w/audio muted in respect to people w/multiple widgets on their site, we had a lot of requests for this.
The viewer can click the red x’ed mute button to demute it. Alternatively, there is a setting in the embed code that allows the widget to come up unmuted - see the faq at http://www.cellblock.com
Thanks!
Comment by Jay Roberts — February 28, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
How is this different than Veeker or JuiceCaster?
Comment by mobilegirl — March 1, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
There are a couple of these services that have come and gone in the past year. I think one even sold the codebase on ebay.
Comment by Rich — March 2, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
looks like we found a fatal flaw in the system
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