Let Associated Press contact you about newsworthy content. More and more Bambuser users are utilizing their handheld devices to capture news stories to share on their blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Starting today, any Bambuser user can also reach a global audience through AP's worldwide network of news organizations. Founded in 1846, AP today is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the net: www.ap.org We think the people with a great view of any breaking news event are citizens being in the right place at the right time or activists and citizens capturing and sharing their own footage and reports from the frontline or on site by using a livestreaming app, i.e Bambuser.
What we've seen lately is the increasing impact of this kind of user generated content contributing to the major media stories. "User generated content has become integral to covering breaking news, particularly where access is restricted. 1. 2. 3. 4. Associated Press Partners With Bambuser. Video-broadcasting service Bambuser was one of our top media apps of 2011, partly due to the role it played in helping to mobilize citizen journalists across the Middle East during the various periods of political uprisings. Bambuser is a free-to-use service that lets users quickly broadcast, watch and share live video through mobile phones and computers. Egyptian activists used the service to broadcast Tahrir Square protests in real time from their mobile phones, and it was also used to monitor the subsequent parliamentary elections in the country.
And Bambuser has also been used extensively over the past several months to broadcast live coverage of all the events as they unfolded in Syria, with amateur footage ending up on TV stations around the world. AP & Bambuser “Our cooperation with AP is significant to us and a natural step to take,” says Bambuser Executive Chairman Hans Eriksson. Live news trial Overall, this seems like a win-win for all parties concerned. . ➤ Bambuser. Syria - a country that can no longer communicate. If you don't have the essentials for communication, will you lose? A few weeks ago we were told Bambuser was blocked in Syria, but the flow of videos continued on a smaller scale.
Brave and skilled people used alternative approaches to reach out with the LIVE material, much needed to let the world know about the terror and violence in Syria. Unfortunately, for a couple of days it's been getting more difficult for the people in Syria to reach out. Assad's government does its utmost to control not only the people but also the communications with the outside world. A few days ago they began to turn off the electricity for up to 15 hours a day. With no electricity one cannot charge devices or use the Internet.
Activists tell us they're afraid to use generators due to the noise they make. During the last week we've seen the consequences of this lack of electricity: even fewer videos from Syria. We mourn the loss of a very brave Syrian journalist. This morning LIVE footage by a citizen journalist, Rami Ahmad Alsayeed - one of the persons behind the channel Syriapioneer on Bambuser, was aired all over the world by BBC World, SkyNews, Al Jazeera and many more. All showed live footage from the roof where Rami and his friends had their camera, documenting the heavy shelling from the Assad Forces hovering over BabaAmr in Homs, Syria. Rami Ahmad Alsayeed has for months been one of the bravest and forefront fighters in getting the world's attention on what's going on in Homs, Syria. In the afternoon, cameraman and journalist Rami Ahmad Alsayeed did his last broadcast – he and three of his friends were soon after this killed by the Assad armed forces on the streets of BabaAmr.
UPDATE: Rami was accompanying three persons to a civil hospital. The car was the target of a mortar and the other three persons were killed right away. Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. This is a last video of martyr Rami Ahmad Alsayeed. Now Bambuser live streaming mobile video of protests is blocked by Egypt. Bambuser Gets A Facelift, Rejoins The Mobile Video Streaming War. We haven’t covered live video streaming startup Bambuser until now, but the Swedish startup is rapidly shaping up to becoming a formidable contender to the likes of Qik, Flixwagon, and Kyte in the race to turn mobile phones into portable TV studios. Bambuser has just released an updated version of its site, which features a new embeddable player and more intuitive interface. The site strongly resembles Qik, which we’ve covered extensively. Users can stream videos directly from their mobile phones to their profiles on Bambuser and can also syndicate their video elsewhere on the web using embeddable video players.
Videos can be streamed over either Wi-Fi or 3G, and the software supports a range of phones running on Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms (you can see a full list here). The site’s biggest differentiator is its ability to automatically pinpoint where users are streaming from using GPS, which it then presents in a Google Map alongside its videos.
Bambuser to live-stream a 24-hour journey through London - TNW UK. Bambuser is one of many mobile apps used by political activists in the Middle East, to capture, record and live-stream events as they unfold across the region. But the ability to stream live video to your blog, website and social networks isn’t reserved solely for political uprisings. Last month, we reported that the organizers of Sweden’s Stockholm Pride Festival were trying to set a world record for the most live mobile video streams in one day, using Bambuser. And now, Bambuser’s Executive Chairman, Hans Eriksson, is taking to the streets of London for a 24-hour sightseeing journey through the city, which he’ll live-stream in its entirety from his mobile phone.
But will he be reading from a Lonely Planet or Rough Guide to the city? “One of the reasons is to test the boundaries of video social engagement, interaction and how it can be used”, says Hans. Whilst Hans will be going it all alone, he says he’ll welcome anyone to join him on parts of his journey, even if just to say hello. Bambuser: Brown Bear Cubs' Birth Live-Streamed.
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) can be found across northern Eurasia and North America. It weighs from between 300 to 780 kilograms (660 to 1,700 lb) and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family. Although the brown bear’s global spread has shrunk, it is listed as a least concern species by the IUCN, with a population of around 200,000 worldwide. But you certainly don’t see one everyday. Given that they spend many days hibernating underground in the winter season, you’ll be pleased to know that Volkswagen Sweden is sponsoring a live-stream of the birth of a litter of bear cubs. Using live video service Bambuser, it’s expected that hundreds of thousands of people will tune in to watch Freja the brown bear in the final few weeks before she gives birth. “It’s going to get really exciting over the next few weeks when Freja gives birth to her litter of pups,” says Hans Eriksson, Executive Chairman of Bambuser.