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MyWaves - Share videos from mobile
By Vivek Puri | October 30th, 2006 at 01:33 pm ET
MyWaves, mobile & pc based video sharing site, has quietly entered into beta phase of its service. MyWaves enables users to email videos from their mobile to MyWaves accounts, which can than be shared and viewed by other MyWaves users. MyWaves had received 3.04 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures last year end.
Unlike Veeker, which I had profiled last week, MyWaves service is currently open to any US and Canadian cell phone user. To get started with the service you need to submit your phone number at MyWaves site to receive the password through SMS. Once inside MyWaves, you can view video clips from the channels shared by other users in the MyWaves lounge. Lounge gives listing of videos from the newest channels, most viewed channels, and sponsored channels available at MyWaves.
To start uploading your own video to MyWaves, you will have to create you own channel. Each channel can have personalized email address, like startupsquad@mywaves.com, to which the videos can be emailed from either your mobile or your pc. For every channel you create at MyWaves, you set the sharing to be either Private or Public. Videos inside a channel marked as ‘Private’ can only be viewed by the invited users. After you are all said and done, you can grab the embed code from your channel’s preferences and paste into your MySpace profile.
As a MyWaves user you can subscribe to channels from other users which are than available under ‘My Channels’. MyWaves also provides other features including commenting, search, view, edit, flagging of videos from the site. Right now MyWaves site doesn’t indicate if it will be offering an downloadable app to be installed on mobile phones for easier video uploading.
I am not really sure when MyWaves will be looking to launch but it does already have some catching up to do. eyeSpot and Veeker are other two players in this market, with eyeSpot looking to launch major updates to its service soon.
Related:
Veeker launches beta - Mobile videos to MySpace
eyeSpot to launch mobile video sharing soon
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Tags: StartupSquad - Video+Sharing - Mobile - Mobile+Video
on April 16th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
[…] MyWaves (www.mywaves.com/m) is a major new and well funded mobile video sharing site featuring thousands of videos organized into channels. The content is very YouTube like - a blend of user-submitted amateur videos and professional offerings from the likes of ABC, CNN, Nike, MTV and HBO. If you register, which requires a mobile phone number, you can create your own public or private channels. Registration is not required to view any of the thousands of public channels. If you are wary about giving out you real mobile number any 10 digit number seems to work. MyWaves also has a Java Me application which can be downloaded at www.mywaves.com/p/d - however all it does is launch the MyWaves mobile web site in the phones default browser! […]
on October 12th, 2007 at 7:23 am
i want to see whole thing
on December 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
WHY WON’T MY CHRISTMAS VIDEO’S STREAM?