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Taking a look at Sesame Vault: An online video solution

On Monday (April 20, 2009), Open Box unveiled its solution for online video. The simple fact is that if you use or create online video, you know that multiple formats are a necessary evil. If you want to watch something on your BlackBerry or an iPhone or your computer, you need the right plugin or format. Open Box’s Sesame Vault aims to change all of that.

Alright, so you’re a person who watches video. Why should you care? Here’s why — you don’t have to install anything. Everything is done on the server side so whatever device you have, you should be able to watch video. Some devices – ahem iPhone ahem – can’t play back flash video. Wouldn’t it be nice if you went to a page and it would just give you a video that you could play? Yep, Sesame Vault solves that. Keep reading for lots more.

Live video streaming on Blackberry’s through Qik

It was a feature that Blackberry users have been longing to have on their handsets. Finally the wait is over as video web streaming service Qik has just released the alpha version of its mobile video streaming client for Blackberry devices.

The new Qik mobile video streaming app will let you live stream your video from your mobile phone to Qik.com and major social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace as well your personal blogs. Download the application from http://qik.com/dl/165. After installing the app on your Blackberry device, you can start streaming live videos by simply pressing the Stream button that will appear when you fire up the application on your Blackberry device.