Trendwatch: “MicroMedia” provides bite-sized voice and video to micro audiences
MicroBlogging evolves to MicroMedia
Forget “Video Snacking” that term is soooo old, way back in April at Ad:Tech. That’s for short video content on the go, often consumed on mobile. 5-10 minutes of fast content.
In addition to Video Snacking, a new type of media style has evolved. You know about Micromessaging services like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, and 3Jam, many of the inner circle have adopted those.
Tools and conditions are favorable
Mobile devices are getting better at capturing video and audio. Some Nokia phones have 5 megapixel cameras in them. On board cameras are becoming standard for most laptops, and I’ve several webcams I can access at anytime. Like most online media and ways we communicate, we start with text, go to audio, and then evolve to Video, the same applies to the Micro channel. So what’s new? MicroMedia. What’s the definition of Micromedia here’s mine:
[MicroMedia: Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. May be created and consumed using mobile technology, and often distributed using other social media tools, listen to this example.]
Examples:
There’s a few pioneers using these tools, Scoble has been using Dave Winer’s Twittergrams at the Techcrunch 9 party. What’s a Twittergram? It’s him with his mobile phone dialing a number and doing a mini-podcast. It then publishes to Twitter, and he adds it on his blog. They are short, just about half a minute, and are mini-interviews. While Robert is clearly publishing it to the public, one should note he considers the world to be his trusted network.
More folks are creating and publishing videos to their networked friends (only folks they allow to see) on Facebook, there’s Kyte TV, and Facebook video. It’s really an evolution of email, now with video. David Geller’s Eyejot does this too.
MicroAudience
These tools, while they could be broadcasted public, often have small controlled audiences of friends and families, they are Micro Audiences, or as what we call narrowcasting.
What’s to come?
More individuals will be publishing audio from mobile devices (then video) or video from the embedded cameras in laptops to their trusted networks. We’ll start to see more evolution of text to also these micromedia formats. Don’t worry, text isn’t’ going away, it’s one of the fastest ways to consume info, but we’ll see more richer media.
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All good points thanks for sharing out in the open
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hmm, micromedia… this might be a useful label for the twitter-like messaging services. thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. =D
Great post. As you allude to later in the post, text is always going to be very powerful and should be included in any definition of micromedia. It will be interesting to see who actually ends up using these new ways to communicate and how. In other words, is sending mom pictures from your cellphone a microaudience?
I see a potential growth in the business side too. My company back in India (in which I am a partner) uses twitter to communicate with their customers. We find twitter more useful because of the mobile phone compatibility and direct messaging capability. I see the same use with micromedia too. Offering personalized short notes to customer using video. Suppose a tech is working on the customer’s project, he can use micromedia to send out a quick note to the customer. This adds a personal touch and benefits the company in the long run.
Now, kyte.tv allows you to even ‘audio or video chat’, either from the mobile-phone or the pc!
You should check it out. it’s, as ‘krish’ already mentioned, a new and very personal way on communicating within communities.
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MicroMedia is/was the name of a online database provider here in Canada. THey were purchased by ProQuest.
also
Micromedia Inc. is a privately held company located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Micromedia Inc. has been providing unix, web, network, programming, and database consulting services since 1995, but not graphic design.
This domain name is in use, is trademarked, and is not for sale.
Really interesting - thank you! I think this will also emerge to more traditional news reporting, with journalists on the field doing micro media from i e the UN, a big accident or the stock market.
Scoble is breaking news from his Twitter, such as the earthquake that recently happened. He heard about it on Twitter, and told someone who had family in the area.
Yup, in fact the concept of the news ticker is not new!
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Great post - we have been watching the micromedia trend evolve quickly on Zannel. A lot of attention has gone to prominent bloggers and various technorati, but an interesting phenomenon we are seeing is the uptake in the urban community. These people use their phones much more than computers, and are using micromedia to communicate directly as well as convey their core identity. We see pictures of tattoos, quick videos of cars peeling out, etc. All of this is social media focused on expression and communication rather than entertainment or information broadcasting.
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It’s all very exciting to me, as micromedia changes the face of publishing in general. I’m seeing a lot of the old corporate giants having to make significant changes in their business models in the past year or two in order to adjust to these “disruptors” of their big slow machines. All the traditional newspapers and publishing platforms are certainly threatened by the new people-powered publishing that is becoming so seamless and easy, that I can’t remember the last time I read a newspaper!
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Blogs seem so slow and prolix.
Micro blogging asynchronous chat status update link archivers like Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce enable Emergency Communication channels, like in Virginia Tech massacre.
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Ustream was used in the virginia tech massacre, a witness talked directly to the press
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