Saying goodbye to bambuser

I saw on @teamhumble's blog that bambuser are closing down their free product after surviving ten years in the livestreaming business. In 2007 social video startups (following the explosion of YouTube) were almost as plentiful as blockchain and crypto startups are today (of course, they had to actually raise bucks from investors rather than ICO-ing themselves into existence, but you get what I mean). Blip.tv broke our hearts when they closed down and deleted all our videos, seesmic.com morphed into a twitter client before dying somewhere in hootsuite, plucky little qik.com suffered a similar fate, but at least the last two gave people a head's up and an easy way to download their material before sundown.

I didn't really get the hang of bambuser until I got a smart phone. I used qik on my N95. The person who helped me get set up on the loaned Nokia N8 that I had for my project "Please Look After This Englishman" in 2011 was none other than your friend Phil C @teamhumble himself. Here he is (minus beard) in the blogger's lounge at South By South West in Austin, March 12, 2011 (see the metadata's cool) showing me how to get set up. In usual livestream style, we spent a minute or so talking about what we weren't going to talk about and then the vid cuts out just as we got to the bit that Phil actually wanted to pimp. It's tough at the top.

And then there's me (carrying a few fewer pounds than I am today) larking about setting up a stream from some talk at some private members club, or something. These were still the days where you could get attention (and new clients) just by setting up your mobile phone to live stream to the internet and being willing to sell your soul. Happy days!

Night night, bambuser, your memory is being etched into the steem blockchain, right, about, now.