Conferences for free, remote meetings at minimal costs, and personal tv shows for nothing, that’s what the future of video is about. Ustream is a free online service that allows users to create and watch live streams, as well as chat with other viewers online. It is extremely simple to setup, and only requires a webcam of your choice, preferably with sound, plugged into a computer to get up and running.
Everything has been running fine with the service. The audio seems to lag a few seconds, and video runs choppy when in larger conference rooms or away from strong signals, other than that the Ustream service looks really good. Scoble said that the students at Virginia Tech are actually using Ustream to broadcast events from around the school. Needless to say, it looks like personal content is slowly picking up, so we could see some big developments from Ustream pretty soon.
Never Heard of UStream before? That is because it is new. When I first stumbled on to it I found it had only been up for one month (33 days 30mins to be exact, they have a counter).
