There is a location battle going on right now – checkins, group conversations, photo tagging and now video tagging. This is as natural an evolution in the streaming world as it was when these features were introduced on smartphones and required syncing and uploading to share.
I asked Ottawa entrepreneur Arash Mahin, founder of Squawkme – a location-based video sharing app – to come on the show and talk about the movement from posting still imagery to posting as-close-to-live-without-being-live geo-tagged video, where the revenue opportunities are and where this technology is going.
Is this the start of the citizen as videography era?
Enjoy!
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About Arash Mahin
Arash Mahin is the co-founder of SquawkMe, a video and location sharing app that enables users to capture a mobile video, tag it geographically and instantly distribute it to their social graph. Arash is 10-year veteran in the digital video/IT industry and was one of the pioneers of the interactive video overlay concept. Prior to co-founding vdoLife, Arash was an executive for Ottawa’s largest digital green screen studio, specializing in motion picture post production, rich media applications for businesses and interactive video web solutions.
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