Orb takes video mobile before YouTube
November 17, 2006
Orb Networks are launching their new software this week (is that today?). It enables users to view, search and create videos and direct it onto their cell phones from video services like YouTube. Mind you a fancy phone like Motorola Q or Nokia N80 is required–not your garden variety cell. This small company of 35 employees founded by Joe Costello is now effectively a leader in mobile entertainment. Orb is not new to the game; it already had 400,000 users of its previous digital media software. This is a company to watch.
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/pd | November 18, 2006 at 10:00 UTC
Why is it a company to watch ?? would you are to elaborate ?
The desktop is dead !! Orb needs a desktop client..
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Marie Germain | November 20, 2006 at 10:00 UTC
Hey Peter: Well for one they have a head start in a very hot area. They are new to this so the likelihood of their surviving Google or any behemoth’s rivalling launch is lower. (Mind you, they could be acquired–quelle surprise!) And frankly there has been so many roadblocks to getting users to enjoy content on their little pocket pals–it’s a platform dream from above! Empowering use through wireless tools is the fastest growing segment right now (read my pervious post on the subject). Au contraire, being tethered to a desktop client does not become a generation on the move. If only they were public I’d buy.