Operator11 - Makes life so much easier for amateur broadcasters

For the last few months or so I have been looking at and testing a variety of video services from live and recorded video services. Its been lots of fun.

But recently I came across Operator11, now amusingly when I first came across them a couple weeks ago I wasn’t impressed so I actually didn’t bother (see previous post on Operator11) trying them out.

As so often happens something happened to draw me back and that was a comment on that post telling me things were going to change in 24hrs (the comment that I am talking about came much later than the original post) and that I should definitely come back for a second look…hhmmmm Okay.

So I did and I must admit it was impressive.

I did try Blip.tv, Vimeo, Veoh, and YouTube as my ‘record first’ then upload for an audience but thought I would check out the live stuff instead. Then I checked out UStream.tv and beta tested Mogolus, both were extremely interesting. Mogolus was too ‘tv’ for me though and UStream just didn’t have the features I wanted that Operator11 offered.

Those killer features for me are a live audience e.g. registered members can get video time on your channel as it happens ‘live’; and the service without any ‘mashingup’ allows the chat messages to come up on the video screen. This last part is great because it allows for those watching to figure what the heck you just said yes too.

You will really appreciate this last feature if you have ever tested a live or uni-directional video session, nothing is more annoying than hearing just answers and trying to figure out what the questions are that were being answered.

Also you can invite contacts (those you offer friendship to in Operator11) to join your show.

I recently got asked to be part of this show but wasn’t available too bad really as I am sure it would have been really hilarious.

I hope you enjoy watching it as it communicates effectively what the difference between YouTube and Operator11 is in a very Apple’esqe way.

The Bad
Now after all that warm fuzzy stuff I just said about Operator11, I must at least say some of the downsides of their service, the individual video pages are sparse on useful information or directions, so you click on a show but you don’t necessarily know what the heck to do when you get there.

Also there is no ‘Auto-blog’ feature like with Blip.TV, and YouTube which I really really like, since I am a blogger after all.

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NicolÃ¡s Sanguinetti 1 year ago 1 point
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Thanks for your review, we are always happy to find people who enjoy O11 :)

Better yet, we are working on both the things you didn't like (the "auto-blogging" doesn't have much priority, we have tons of stuff to do on the site, but is gonna get done someday :))

Thanks from the Operator11 team,
-foca

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Roger 1 year ago 1 point
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Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the comment, its good to see we are on the radar, it seems as MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook grow that bloggers are not getting as much of the R&D; as we used to, but I am not offended, its a natural progression from a group that will eventually be a minority as Web2.0 goes 'late majority'.

I especially hope but didn't mention that you expand on the video 'viewer' participant feature as its only touching the tip of the ice berg from my perspective.

I am glad you guys are getting it done, as clearly you are early early (alpha) stage compared to the others (more beta than alpha) but really putting a great and very competitive service together.

I will be using you but will need more audience interactivity before I make a big commitment on this last suggestion many I have spoken with are of the same mind.

Thanks again for stopping by its always nice to know you are being listened too.

Cheers

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Live in O11 » Blog Archiv 1 year ago 1 point
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