Yeah, that’s the next step, phone-to-phone video streaming. Ustream’s working on an iPhone app so that people can watch Ustream anywhere, anytime. Qik has been doing the “Live Stream From Your Phone” thing for quite a while now, including a text chat that the broadcaster can read on the phone.

It’s all about choices, availability and convenience. When that Ustream app comes out, it’s gonna be an ENTIRELY different ballgame as far as audiences you can pull for a broadcast. :)

Great summary of ideas about what it takes to make a useful live streaming show. We had a blast doing Jonny’s Par-tay, and Reinventing Television, and yes, it was a lot of work.

The bonus: after the show=zero editing!

Streaming straight from the phone has got to be the easiest way, and it has the bonus letting you be able to get to cool locations and interview interesting people with minimum tech and logistical hassles.

It’s amazingly painful to be the viewer of one of these live streams AND also know how they SHOULD be done. You wish you just had a REMOTE so you could control the camera and audio settings yourself and save yourself and the other viewers the grief of being able to see someone’s BACK all the way on the CORNER of the shot, while nobody’s helping us to actually see what’s going on or get as much of the experience as we could have.

However, I recognize that this is NOT television. It’s the internet, where people are intrested in HITS, so as long as you tuned in, they already registered your hit, so who cares what YOUR experience is, right? They can still sell their numbers to advertisers for CPM or rev-share. :/