Bambuser
Encyclopedia
Bambuser is a Swedish company, founded in 2007, providing an interactive live video broadcasting service, for streaming live video from mobile phones and webcams to the internet. Bambuser's main office is situated in Stockholm, Sweden, and has a branch office in Turku, Finland. The Turku office works with technology and development while the Swedish office concentrates on business development and marketing.
, Twitter
, Myspace
, Wordpress
and Blogspot.
The Bambuser broadcasting mobile phone application is currently available for iOS, Android, Nokia Maemo, Symbian, Samsung Bada and Windows Mobile platforms.
In November 2010, Bambuser was one of the finalists in the The Europas, the European Startup Awards. 33,126 votes were cast across 23 categories, and eight judges deliberated over the results.
On January 1, 2011, the Swedish Pirate party celebrated its five year anniversary with a Bambuser live broadcast with party leader Rick Falkvinge and vice party leader Anna Troberg
. Live in the video, Falkvinge sent a tweet saying he stepped down as party leader, and he announced that his successor would be Troberg.
, Bambuser (along with microblogging site Twitter
) was blocked by the government. Shortly thereafter most of the country's internet connection was limited. During this blackout, Bambuser set up a special Egypt page on their website, collecting all the streams originating from Egypt and the protests on Tahrir Square. This page later evolved into the North Africa/Middle East page.
During the protests in Bahrain, a similar situation emerged, as government officials blocked access to the Bambuser homepage.
The Service
Bambuser, the service, is an interactive mobile video streaming platform that enables users to quickly and easily stream and share live mobile video using a smartphone or a PC with a webcam. It is also possible to link the streams to social media websites and microblogging sites such as FacebookFacebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, Myspace
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
, Wordpress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
and Blogspot.
The Bambuser broadcasting mobile phone application is currently available for iOS, Android, Nokia Maemo, Symbian, Samsung Bada and Windows Mobile platforms.
Media Coverage
In 2010, Finnish broadcasting channel YLE adopted Bambuser as an alternative platform for their online- and news-broadcasts. This allowed YLE to get more live-coverage on their webpage, and allowed the viewers to interact with the reporters on the scene.In November 2010, Bambuser was one of the finalists in the The Europas, the European Startup Awards. 33,126 votes were cast across 23 categories, and eight judges deliberated over the results.
On January 1, 2011, the Swedish Pirate party celebrated its five year anniversary with a Bambuser live broadcast with party leader Rick Falkvinge and vice party leader Anna Troberg
Anna Troberg
Anna Troberg, born 9 April 1974 in Landskrona, is the party leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. She is also a translator and an author. She currently resides in Järfälla, a suburb north of Stockholm, Sweden.- Early life and career :...
. Live in the video, Falkvinge sent a tweet saying he stepped down as party leader, and he announced that his successor would be Troberg.
Demonstrations and controversy in Egypt
During the demonstrations in Egypt2011 Egyptian revolution
The 2011 Egyptian revolution took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of November 2011. The uprising was mainly a campaign of non-violent civil resistance, which featured a series of demonstrations, marches, acts of civil...
, Bambuser (along with microblogging site Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
) was blocked by the government. Shortly thereafter most of the country's internet connection was limited. During this blackout, Bambuser set up a special Egypt page on their website, collecting all the streams originating from Egypt and the protests on Tahrir Square. This page later evolved into the North Africa/Middle East page.
During the protests in Bahrain, a similar situation emerged, as government officials blocked access to the Bambuser homepage.