by Amani Channel

As reported throughout the Webosphere, you can now be a live iPhone mobile broadcaster thanks to the recently released Ustream Live Broadcaster application. Ustream’s app is the first to officially allow iPhones to live stream.

I’ve been waiting not so patiently for capability to broadcast live from my iPhone ever since I got a 3gs for my birthday. Here’s my history making first livecast:

To give you some background, cell phone live streaming isn’t all that new.

Video blog pioneer Steve Garfield has been at it for a while, and even has claims of scooping mainstream media using Qik.

Nokia cell phones have been the live streaming phones of choice, and if you jail broke your iPhone you could also share live videos. Other than that official iPhone mobile video apps (Kyte, Qik, TwitVid) allow you to record, then upload a video (unless you were one of the Ustream live Beta testers like my friend James Andrews).

My favorite mobile video app up until now has been Kyte for several reasons. Kyte iPhone videos are easy to produce; the video uploads and transcodes quickly; the embed widget is cool, and the video quality is excellent.

I’ve only used Qik a couple of times, but not extensively. It works, but it’s not my favorite.

TwitVid is easy to use and video uploads are fairly fast, but for some reason TwitVid doesn’t provide an RSS feed for its individual accounts (I couldn’t find it at least).

So how do I like Ustream? Overall the app is easy to use. It will tweet your followers when you start streaming , and once you stop recording, it will save and publish the video to YouTube and Facebook. The other big plus is that the Ustream app works on iPhone 3g phones as well.

The one drawback is the video quality. I’m sure that will improve in the future, but it definitely leaves something to be desired.

Overall, the ease of use, and social distribution features will surely make Ustream a favorite live mobile video app.

Qik will most likely be the next live video app for the iPhone.

from ITVT

Qik, announced that it has submitted a version of its application for App Store approval. Like Ustream, the company has previously launched an iPhone app for capturing and sharing video.

As great as it sounds posting live videos is a novely more than a necessity. There are certainly times when live video can be compelling and informative like during breaking news, a conference presentation, and important speech.

In most cases though, recording a video and sharing later will work just fine. As I think back to my news days, there were plenty of days when we went live just because the technology enabled it.

Either way, once it’s online, it’s usually there to stay.

If you have any thoughts to share, please do so.