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All I can say is that we are now more connected than ever and the possibilites just keep on connecting us globally closer and closer. I am thinking the Virtual Communication masters I did is now more relevant than ever! Dispersed team and information management is really coming ot the fore.

So the idea - Kyte.tv is creating a platform that allows everyone to publish their own “television channels” and make them accessible everywhere – on your mobiles, personal computers and eventually television.

From newteevee.com : What Blogger did for personal publishing, Decentral.tv wants to do for video. The San Francisco-based company, which has raised capital from well-known venture capitalists (the same gang that backed Skype), wants to turn its Kyte.tv¹ (which we covered last week²) offering into a platform that allows everyone to publish their own “television channels” and make them accessible everywhere – on your mobiles, personal computers and eventually television.

Sounds narcissistic? That’s exactly what makes it perfect for the self-obsessed times we live in. We had a chance over the weekend to catch up with Decentral CEO Daniel Graf, who outlined his vision for Kyte.tv and video content publishing/consumption across multiple platforms — web, mobile, and eventually television.

“We do nothing new, but we take the TV world and bring it to the online world,” said Graf. “Like instant messaging and VoIP are real-time, we want to do that for digital media.” Modesty aside, his product — at least in demo phase — impresses, because it is blazing fast.

The company has a J2ME mobile client that is super simple to use and works with some of the trendier phones including Nokia’s and Sony Ericsson’s latest. The application not only allows you to post videos and photos to your teevee channel, it also is a receiver for the channels you have subscribed to. (The CDMA network operators such as the Sprint force their customers to use their own picture messaging service, and as a result are incompatible with the Kyte offering.)

Read more over at : http://newteevee.com/2007/03/06/kyte/

Filed under: Tech News on March 7th, 2007