Hot on the heels of the Ipoki-Qik collaboration, which shows live, GPS-georeferenced mobile video side by side with an updating map, Windows Mobile developer Inca X has come out with Live Media for Mobile that achieves the same feat. Though Qik/Ipoki work with both Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile, Live Media (for Windows Mobile only) does let you embed the combined output in one easy step to any web site, as Microsoft’s Chris Pendleton shows (Silverlight permitting):
That’s a cool and useful feature; certainly something I’d want on my site next time I’m on a road-trip in an area smothered in cell phone towers and unlimited data plans. Sweden comes to mind:-) [Caveat: Doesn’t seem to work well with Safari on a Mac – Firefox is fine.]