We’re currently inundated with bloggers creating MixerCast, talking about them, telling us what they felt about the Web Application. There are also mainstream media like newspaper channels covering the same.
Tehelka asked if Will 2.0 Kill Internet Stars? They’re citing stories of the mushrooming boom of Web 2.0 Application across the Internet in general and the Indian participation in particular. They are talking about this new wave of free online communities that allow users to create their own content on the Web. They are surprised though not taken aback by the fact that these Web Applications are driven by young entrepreneurs with a passion for the Web.
A proficient Indian Flash ActionScript Programmer, Debabrataa was very happy with the new MixerCast update. He finds it more user-friendlier than before and was amazed at the fullscreen mode (Hey, Debabrataa, we love it too!). He loves trying out his home-town related videos. You can see a Hindi video-song sung by a budding Assamese singer.
Mashable appreciates the idea of widgets by many sites, including our own. Mashable feels that the idea of allowing exportable widgets to be embedded on individual sites/blogs or other social networking site is the trend these days. The option of letting users come back to the source through the widget is another key factor for embed widgets to propagate effectively across the Social Networking realm. MixerCast does all that and we’re right in the heart of those people who want to push the widgets around to other social networking sites and blogs.
The Tech Chronicles talks about how MixerCast users “become their own broadcaster, their own syndicatator, their own media person.”
Erick Schonfeld loves the idea of MixerCast’s “Let the audience play with the content.” He adds that, “Increasingly, content alone will have less value than what people can do with it. Time Warner should embrace this shift by making its content available in spliceable chunks and encouraging consumers to do with it what they will. The company should then observe how people come together in self-defining groups around reconstituted forms of content. Each group becomes a new niche to target with other media and ads. As audiences create their own content, production costs plummet.”
REFERENCES
* Tehelka: Will 2.0 Kill Internet Stars?
* Debabrataa: His newly found love-affair with Mixercast
* 9.01 am: Mixercast launches user-generated media network
* Mashable: Building a Brand Through Social Networks
* The Tech Chronicles: Mixercast mixes user and professional content
* ProHipHop: Mix & Distribute Licensed Content w/Your Own
* The.Next.Net: Mainstream Media Mashups From Mixercast
* Sys-Con Media: Mixercast Launches User-Generated Media Network
* Alarm Clock: Mixercast Launches With $2.6M
