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New Vidcinity 3.0 release adds follow capabilities and user streams

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Sid Shapira | Comments

Vidcinity 3.0

The latest version of our location-based video app – Vidcinity 3.0 – is now available for your viewing enjoyment in the App Store!

Expanding on its primary location-based focus, Vidcinity 3.0 incorporates a social connection component that allows users to follow and communicate with the people and places they care about most.  This release allows users to view and follow the video streams of other users while the new Video Feed view displays the most recent videos from those users.

We invite you to download the latest version of Vidcinity and to learn about its new features in the press release below.

The Vidcinity team welcomes your feedback and input.  To comment on our latest release, go to Vidcinity.com and click Support to view and use our Customer Feedback page.

Vidcinity Location-based Video App Adds Follow Capabilities and User Streams

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – July 6, 2011 – VMIX (www.vmix.com), a leading platform provider for mobile and social video, today announced the latest release of Vidcinity, its location-based video application.

Vidcinity 3.0 allows users to view and follow the video streams of other users while the new Video Feed view displays the most recent videos from those users.

“We’re making it easy to find and follow people, which will help users expand their social networks in a whole new way,” said Pat Burns, president and chief executive officer at VMIX.

“Before you could share your own location-based videos by email or to Facebook and Twitter. Now, you can follow the video streams of your closest friends, or other Vidcinity users whose content you find compelling.”

Burns added that the Vidcinity 3.0 release delivers value for individual users and organizations alike.

“The initial feature set for Vidcinity focused on connecting people to places on the map using video. This new release still focuses on location-based video but incorporates a social connection component—sharing video with the people you know or those you find most interesting.”

“Vidcinity can enhance those connections using video, and provide a fun new way to follow and communicate with the people and places you care about most.”

The latest free apps for iPad 2 and iPhone are now available in the App Store. For more information or to sign up for a Vidcinity account, visit: www.vidcinity.com and www.vmix.com/products/vidcinity. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.

About VMIX
VMIX is the leading provider of carrier-class online video publishing and communication solutions. Designed with high-volume producers, device manufacturers and network providers in mind, the company’s cloud-based products make it easy to have your video, anywhere. With 25 million unique videos stored, and processing over one million new videos every month, VMIX offers the most reliable, scalable white-label online video solutions in the world.

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For more information, contact:
Paula Brici
Media/Analyst Relations for VMIX
paula@vmix.com
+1 949-677-6527

VMIX Supports Survivor Beach 2011

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Sue Walsh | Comments

 

Hundreds of surfers, cancer survivors, friends and family will hit La Jolla Shores on Father’s Day, June 19, to lay a long line of surfboards end to end in the sand.

The 5th annual Survivor Beach hopes to break last year’s record of 200 boards lined up on the beach near Scripps Pier.

The event is free, open to the public and includes great traditional Hawaiian entertainment by Heali’i's Polynesian Review.

All funds from donations will go to the UCSD Moores Cancer Center, a San Diego facility at the forefront of the fight against cancer, developing promising new therapies and offering a wide array of treatment options.

VMIX founder and cancer survivor Terry Ash will co-chair the event, which is a precursor to the 18th annual Luau and Longboard Invitational, scheduled for August 21.

VMIX surfers and supporters, we’ll see you down there!

 

Photo used with permission. Mario Covic Photography.

Unilever Chooses VMIX Mobile: Quick-to-market Apps for Social Networking

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Sue Walsh | Comments

Is your market young, urban and mobile? If so, they probably rely on Facebook, Twitter and location-based apps like Foursquare to meet, socialize and share experiences.

VMIX client Unilever UK recently launched a mobile application called LYNX Stream, designed with the young, predominantly male target market for their line of LYNX/AXE deodorants in mind.

LYNX Stream collects every video, photo, text, tweet, check-in and status update a group of friends makes on their mobile phones to produce an automatic “Stream” of the night’s fun. It also generates a mash-up style highlight reel, which can be viewed online and shared across the social networks of Stream participants.

How do we at VMIX love LYNX Stream? Let us count the ways!

LYNX Stream makes full use of the flexibility and power of VMIX APIs to ingest, encode, store and deliver media from users’ mobile phones.

The app also pulls together location check-ins, status posts, tweets and other mobile data to build a multimedia timeline of the event.

When the Stream is over, VMIX delivers raw media clips to the Animoto service to create the mash-up highlight reel of the event, which is ingested again and stored on the VMIX platform, to be enjoyed and shared later by users.

What we love most is that LYNX Stream engineers built the app in a just a few short weeks, and with very little support from our development team, which illustrates just how accessible and extensible our platform is.

Even though LYNX Stream is directed at a mostly male audience, we found group of girlfriends who put it to good use on the streets of London, watching the recent royal wedding of Will and Kate. Here is their highlight reel!

Learn more about LYNX Stream

Celebrating Vidcinity in Our Own Backyard

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Andrea Currie | Comments

A week or two ago, the VMIX team boarded a party bus with the purpose of celebrating the recent release of Vidcinity and planting as much video around San Diego as we could!

We stopped at three popular San Diego destinations—downtown Gaslamp, Balboa Park and historic Old Town. Armed with iPhones loaded with the Vidcinity app, teams were tasked with taking the very best video at historical and popular locations, as well as with engaging and educating business owners and passersby about Vidcinity and its many uses.

Before our first stop, we all customized our mad-lib style t-shirts, with many of us kicking up our Vidcinity personas a notch by adding fun accessories.

For about four hours, the streets of San Diego were home to a team of beer-drinking Bavarians, an eighties rock star, Charlie Sheen (of course!), and a few very disoriented pink-tutu’d ballerinas.

What was the Gaslamp originally called? Our teams learned the district was known as the Stingaree, which is also one of the most popular clubs in the present Gaslamp. In Balboa Park, we channeled our inner tourists, and met a lot of really nice international visitors. By the time we landed in Old Town, the teams were ready to relax in the historic plaza, sipping on margaritas and listening to music.

A couple of our favorite highlights from the event?

The bus trip back to home base was all about the revelry, and you’ll discover the incriminating Vidcinity videos if you run the app while traveling along highway I5. Fortunately, using your Smartphone while driving is illegal in California!

When all was said, video’d and done, we’d uploaded over 150 videos in just three hours, and were able to reach businesses and tourists in a very unique and engaging way.

Each team brought a fun angle to our first Vidcinity field trip, which added to the amazing variety of videos that users now get to enjoy when they near the Gaslamp, Balboa Park and Old Town vidcinities.