Just found out about Periscope. An app developed by a 27 year old entrepreneur, and now owned by Twitter.
It is simply amazing and can be used for a lot of good.
Basically it turns your phone or tablet into an internet broadcasting device, no other hardware required.
You download the app, and you provide your location, and what ever your iPhone or iPad camera and
microphone can pick up is available to anyone else with the app. They can communicate with you
via text, and you can respond verbally
You can search broadcasts by location on a world map. The broadcasts are either live, or recorded and stay on line for 24 hours.
The live ones are super fun.
In the past two days I tuned into broadcasts from all over the globe.
I said hello to school girls in the Ukraine, young men smoking and listening to music in Gaza, a guy eating dinner in Cairo, a guy trying to shmooze girls
in Times Square, a guy goofing off at work in London, and some guy driving in Moscow.
All of this is frivolous of course, but it is also being used for flash reporting. Periscope broadcasts
have come from Syrian refugees on the move, police encounters, and even live sporting events.
I plan on spending a few minutes each day interacting with people all over the world and observing
their daily lives.
https://www.periscope.tv/
It is simply amazing and can be used for a lot of good.
Basically it turns your phone or tablet into an internet broadcasting device, no other hardware required.
You download the app, and you provide your location, and what ever your iPhone or iPad camera and
microphone can pick up is available to anyone else with the app. They can communicate with you
via text, and you can respond verbally
You can search broadcasts by location on a world map. The broadcasts are either live, or recorded and stay on line for 24 hours.
The live ones are super fun.
In the past two days I tuned into broadcasts from all over the globe.
I said hello to school girls in the Ukraine, young men smoking and listening to music in Gaza, a guy eating dinner in Cairo, a guy trying to shmooze girls
in Times Square, a guy goofing off at work in London, and some guy driving in Moscow.
All of this is frivolous of course, but it is also being used for flash reporting. Periscope broadcasts
have come from Syrian refugees on the move, police encounters, and even live sporting events.
I plan on spending a few minutes each day interacting with people all over the world and observing
their daily lives.
https://www.periscope.tv/
