Searching video is slow but coming and will bring a massive new source of data for us.

However, I don't think that more data and more venues for search necessarily bring more complexity…to me they just bring more choice and more opportunity.

Searching video is slow but coming and will bring a massive new source of data for us.

However, I don't think that more data and more venues for search necessarily bring more complexity…to me they just bring more choice and more opportunity.

I see a great change here and life becoming too complex, I still remember the video “paradoxes of choices”

On Facebook,yes certainly.

The reason is that a webinar is an opted-in activity and with that type of environment I don't see any reason why a video stream with interactive chat shouldn't work perfectly.

For example, if you want to have a 'webinar like' connection with the fans on your fan page, this would be ideal. There is no reason not to move to this type of solution.

Great videos! As a snow fanatic for skiing, I'm liking what I'm seeing and makes me anxious to get back on the mountain in a few weeks.

I'll do two things: 1) pass on your info to the product maven at Vpype so that you can get involved in the mobile Beta in the June/July timeframe and 2) check out your work and ping you.

Thanks much for your comments and ideas.

VPYPE is very interesting, and I cannot wait until this goes mobile. For the past few months, I've been experimenting with iPhone video edits for my snowboard publication (http://www.ridethebeav.com) called “From the Hill” where we film down the mountain and upload to our social space while on the lift. Using a variety of otherwise unrelated services/apps we are able to deliver “real time” snowboarding to our FB Fans and Twitter followers using Tumblr for deployment.

Now the iPhone all alone is not the best video camera for several obvious reasons, but there is a new product called OWLE (Optical Widgets for life Enhancement) that acts as a holster for the iPhone that also adds service for interchangeable lenses, an audio condenser mic, etc. Check it out: http://getowle.com — As a disclaimer I do want to mention that I have recently become commercially affilated with them.

Have a look at some of the snowboard edits we've done. The quality is astounding!: http://fromthehill.ridethebeav.com

We have also tried to broadcast live with this iPhone set up, but using QIK and USTREAM are just not there yet (well AT&T 3g is not yet there).

It seems to me that VPYPE might be something for us to investigate for next winter. I'd love to help beta test from an “Action Sports” perspective if the opportunity arises.

And I would really be interested in showing you some more of what we are doing. Feel free to hit me up: rich at secretstache.com

Ustream (and I'm a fan!) is like SocialTV, where you watch and share your comments 'about' the video with friends. Like tweeting to friends while watching a show on standard TV. Social approaches like Vpype are trying to make the video the conversation itself, where the comments define the content of the stream. Kind of like what comments do in a Disqus thread.

How does VPype differentiate from Ustream.tv where I can share videos and chat with friends? (this is the type of question I look forward to asking in video interviews)

Big brand clients have to get past the idea of 'porting' over old media programs to social media platforms but once they do, video conversations as customer service, contest engines, and 'town hall' types of meetings will I think take hold.