@Scobleizer joins Seattle Tweethouse @140TC

March 7th, 2010

Tomorrow we’ll be providing live, online video streaming from “The Tweet House” in Seattle on March 8th. The broadcast will stream during the afternoon from the Bell Harbor Convention Center in Seattle, WA.

In addition to the live streaming coverage, Watchitoo will also remotely “beam-in” special guest speaker Robert Scoble, a technology blogger and one of Forbes’ Web Celeb 25 for 2010, to address the in-house audience.

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This is the second event in which Watchitoo and the Parnassus Group have teamed up to provide streaming coverage to outside audiences. In January of this year, Watchitoo remotely brought Jimmy Jean-Louis, of NBC’s Heroes, to the “The Tweet House” at Sundance to address the recent earthquakes in Haiti.

Parnassus Group founder Steve Broback said, “We are extremely pleased to have Watchitoo on board again for ‘The Tweet House.’ The Watchitoo platform has become the ideal tool for us to ‘beam-in’ guests from around the world and provides a layer of interactivity for those who cannot attend events to digitally mingle with conference goers.”

“We’re very happy to be working once again with the Parnassus Group,” said Rony Zarom, CEO of Watchitoo. “Given the recent successes at Sundance and CES 2010, Watchitoo is proving itself an ideal platform for events of this stripe.”

Those not attending the event in person can watch the live stream by visiting: http://www.watchitoo.com/pro/show/wph-836. Footage will also be available after the event for playback by visiting: http://www.watchitoo.com/pro/seattle140tc/.

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Oscars Live Red Carpet Fashion Commentary

March 7th, 2010

MyShape and Watchitoo partner up

to Offer Exclusive

Oscars 2010 Fashion Coverage:  

Live Streaming Commentary on Oscar Fashions

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MyShape and Watchitoo, a real-time social collaboration platform, are partnering to provide live streaming online commentary of the Academy Awards®’ red carpet fashion. Coverage will start at 4 p.m. (PST) on March 7, 2010, and will be available at http://www.watchitoo.com/pro/oscars/.

Althea Harper, Project Runway’s Season 6 runner-up, and Vanessa Rae, an online host for the Today Show/MSNBC.com, will offer live critiques of the night’s fashions worn by the hottest stars. Sarah Evans, recently named by Vanity Fair as one of “America’s Tweethearts,” will join the discussion about the red carpet styles and also will discuss how new online platforms, such as Watchitoo, allow people around the world to experience live events in a new way.

“Oscar night is one of fashion’s biggest nights,” said Althea Harper, fashion designer and Project Runway Season 6 runner-up. “I am very excited to be partnering with MyShape to show women how they can translate these red carpet looks and trends into their own wardrobes. And what’s great about MyShape is that you don’t have to be a certain size or shape to find great clothes that flatter you.”

MyShape pioneered Personal Shopping as a solution for women of all shapes to select from only the clothes that fit and flatter™. MyShape lets its members build a Personal Shop™ by submitting their specific measurements and their taste and style preferences.

“We’re thrilled to have Althea, Vanessa and Sarah as hosts for our coverage of the Oscar red carpet,” said Mercedes De Luca, president of MyShape. “This is a great opportunity for women to hear from the experts about what’s hot this year, ask questions and learn more about how they can wear the trends of the red carpet in their daily lives.”

Users joining this Watchitoo Live Event will have the option to simply watch the hosts report live or to use video chat and instant messaging in order to pose questions for the hosts and engage in discussions about the evening’s fashions. During the event users will receive an exclusive promo code for a special deal on www.myshape.com.

“The Oscars has always brought people together and started discussions about fashion,” said Rony Zarom (@Ronywatchitoo), founder and CEO of Watchitoo. “With the Watchitoo Live Event platform, people will be able to connect and comment with others outside of their living rooms and with our expert hosts.”

For more information, please visit http://www.watchitoo.com/pro/oscars/. *A recording of the livestream broadcast will be available for playback* connect with us on twitter @watchitoo!

For more information on Althea Harper, visit http://www.altheaharper.com/ or follow her on Twitter at @altheaharper.

For more information on Vanessa Rae, visit http://www.vanessarae.net/content/home or follow her on Twitter @vrageous.

For more information on Sarah Evans, visit http://prsarahevans.com/ or follow her on Twitter at @prsarahevans.

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Welcome Scott to Watchitoo!

February 23rd, 2010

We are welcoming Scott Abramowitz our newest developer to Watchitoo.

I had to grab a few screenshots of him on Watchitoo to share! hurray!

scotts first watchitoo

scott on watchitoo

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Watchitoo at New York Video Meet-up @NYVM

February 22nd, 2010

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Tomorrow on Tuesday February 23rd at 6pm Watchitoo’s New COO- Shai Eisen (@seisen007) will be demoing the watchitoo platform at the New York Video Meetup (@NYVM) discussing upcoming events in the coming months at Watchitoo. As we add additional features and upgrades to the platform and have some cool happenings to report in the coming months- Shai will give you a behind the scenes sneak peek overview of what’s to come! He will also overview some of the events we have on the calendar for 2010  like LIVE coverage at the red carpet  Oscars with special hosts, a guest speaker joining the seattle tweethouse conference @140tc from silicon valley via Watchitoo, and some interviews and conference recaps from Austin at the upcoming SXSW!

We’ll be updating the blog shortly where to come join us for all the excitements!

Stay tuned!

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Watchitoo Highlights from Tweethouse Sundance

January 27th, 2010
This past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival Watchitoo partnered up with the hosts of #Tweethouse to beam in Jimmy Jean Louis from NBC Heroes into the @140tc Tweethouse event at sundance during the celebrity #tweetupforhaiti. He discussed his Non-Profit organization HUFH “Hollywood Unites for Haiti” and what can be done to assist with the urgent need for relief assittance in the devastation that has struck post the catastrophic earthquake.
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Jimmy Jean Louis beamed Live from LA to Tweethouse at Sundance

Jimmy Jean Louis Haiti Relief

Jimmy answering questions by Marc from Watchitoo in NYC about HUFH.org

The tweetup for Haiti was hosted by Levar Burton, and had celebrity guests like Adrien Grenier from Entourage post a tweet and donate funds to the relief efforts. Adrien donated $1000 to the Wyclef Yele Haiti Foundation.
tweethouse adriangrenier tweetup
Shira Lazaar also live streamed some of the happenings at tweethouse as well on Ustream, and wrote a great recap of the tweethouse happenings on the CBS News Blog discussing appearances also made by Joseph Gorden Levitt promoting hisown site hitRECord.org and film Hesher at this years festival (which Shal from Watchitoo attended while he was out there and reported great things after the screening) and Kareen Abdul Jabar who promoted his own documentary film.
It was exciting to see how an online streaming platform can be used to connect people around the world for a shared experience. Those of us who didn’t join Shal at the tweethouse were able to view some of the panelists talking: like Adrien tweeting for Haiti, or Kareem Abdul Jabar showing his documentary, would could ask Jimmy (@HaitianHero on twitter) questions live in the real-time chat, and connect with some new individuals concerned in supporting the Haiti efforts and getting coverage from sundance. We had some users join from Ghana, Turkey, Israel, New York, LA, and elsewhere in the U.S to revisit the show go to www.watchitoo.com/pro/tweethouse.
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Live Coverage from Tweethouse @Sundance!

January 21st, 2010

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Our Press announcement earlier this afternoon in conjunction with Parnassus Group hosting the Tweethouse conference at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend in Park City Utah revealed that Watchitoo Live Events will continue with streaming a live broadcast January 23rd & 24th from “140 | The Twitter Conference” aka Tweethouse, at the 2010 Sundance. The tweethouse coverage will include online video streaming from the SHOP Yoga Studio in Park City, Utah and the broadcast will take place from 4pm-7pm EST with guest appearance around 5pm.

In addition to the live streaming coverage, Watchitoo will  “beam-in” special guest speaker Jimmy Jean-Louis, from hit NBC show “Heroes” where he’s known as “The Haitian.” Jean-Louis will address the Tweethouse attendees remotely from LA and speak about Haiti relief efforts being undertaken by his foundation, Hollywood Unites For Haiti (HUFH), as part of the celebrity Tweetup for Haiti setting up shop at Sundance, co-hosted by Levar Burton: who expressed his commitment to doing what he can to aid Haiti efforts.

Steve Broback, founder of the Parnassus Group, which is organizing the event said, “Because Watchitoo’s Live Events platform is uniquely suited to broadcast and discuss content in real-time using video, it’s a perfect match for this event and adds an extra layer of excitement.” Watchitoo is excited to being working with the Parnassus Team @parnassusgroup: @sbroback @jasonp107 which orchestrates  @14otc and other great events like the CES “It wont stay in vegas” blogger after party.

Following our Livestream coverage from CES hosted by Pop17 Sarah Austin,  Watchitoo Live Events is quickly becoming an ideal platform for event broadcasting, conference remotes and interactive presentations. A premium offering that enables interactivity among physical and virtual participants, the Watchitoo platform can be used for live event streaming, allowing speakers to be showcased in an interactive manner when beamed remotely, and enabling panelists from around the world to join in events and share content and commentary.

Rony Zarom, our founder and CEO has stated: “Watchitoo is proud to provide technology to aid the celebrity tweetup for Haiti relief efforts. This initiative further demonstrates how social media can be used to mobilize activists and raise awareness in the community…Obviously, Twitter has exploded in popularity, and the film industry has taken notice our Live Events platform is being recognized by event coordinators as a premium component in connecting conference attendees and those who choose to participate remotely. We are thrilled to bring ‘140 | The Twitter Conference’ virtually to audiences around the globe.”

Shal Ngo, our Watchitoo Event Producer will be out at Tweethouse Sundance interacting with people attending @140tc, and giving some personal updates about the happenings- look out for him there!

Shal Watchitoo Tweethouse graphic

Those not attending the event in person can catch all the action by joining the show: Live from Tweethouse @Sundance

Look below for more information about our partnership & Tweethouse collaboration:

The Parnassus Group: Organizers of @140tc

Founded in 2004, Parnassus Group provides services to clients and partners seeking to participate in the social media space. We’ve helped everyone from Fortune 500 companies to sole proprietorships in their efforts to leverage technologies like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and more.

Hollywood Unites For Haiti:

In 2008, Jimmy founded Hollywood Unites For Haiti (HUFH), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote sports and cultural activities for the underprivileged youth of Haiti. Now a Goodwill Ambassador for Haiti’s children, Jimmy says, “From a young boy growing up in Haiti with no electricity or running water, my journey to Hollywood has been rich with experience. I take little for granted and appreciate the beauty of life, knowing that there is so much more to learn.” For further information, please go to www.jimmyjeanlouis.com, www.hufh.org, and www.haitianhero.com.

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Real-Time Disaster Relief: Help Haiti

January 19th, 2010

Haiti Disaster Relief forum

With the Haiti Earthquake crisis, activists around the world have been working together to raise funds and send over immediate aid and medical assistance to the thousands . Social media tools such as Twitter have been mobilizing activists of the world and enabling them to collaborate on relief efforts through fundraising text campaigns, and circulation of real-time information.Twitter has proven once again the significance of global real-time communication and distribution, even post the impact it made during the 2009 Iran Election. features like the twitter trending topics, #Haiti hashtags, and twitterlists features are allowing activists around the world, and global leaders to collaborate. Anderson Cooper has been very vocal on twitter  giving consistent updates on the ground concerning new developments and breaking news. Non profits organizing various relief initaitives like the Clinton Foundation which immediately responded with a Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts, Wyclef’s Yele Haiti organization, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, and the american red cross, all maximized efforts using twitter. The clinton foundation was one of the first two use twitter to spread their texting campaign for Haiti Relief fundraising: Text the word “QUAKE” to 20222 to donate $10 to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, charged to your cell phone bill.

#Haiti Trending on Twitter

As online conversations raplidy exploded concerning these TEXT fundraising initiatives the American Red Cross also created  the Red Cross’s 90999 text campaign (”Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief”) efforts grew, the Red Cross tweeted Friday morning that donations exceeded $8 million. A recent update today revealed just how powerful these new media campaigns are proving to be as biztimes.com revealed today that $22 million in text pledges has been reported by Red Cross for Haitian earthquake relief as of Jan. 19.

A very relevant CNET article: “Twitter grows up in the aftermath of Haiti” provides analysis of twitters involvement in engaging people and raising awareness around the world concerning HAITI relief. Yet the article also raises the issue of social media’s ability to disseminate misinformation. With the expansion of these rapidly developing social media tools, there also comes more liability, responsibility and a new air of caution. People have to be be mindful when consuming information on twitter, and passing it along.

What also has incredible potential to be a game changer in this new online media space of leveraging technology to aid social activism efforts is the world of Online Video streaming. Video platforms like ours, can be used for on the ground coverage, and reporting, and allow journalists, activists, and locals to collaborate and update other concerned citizens around the world. People can be alerted and invited through email, twitter, & facebook, and can add new content in real-time as it’s coming in.

Our  Help Haiti Relief Show-exemplifies how a web based video application like Watchitoo could be used to invite activists, users and others for live stream coverage or collaboration. Please add content to the show, and feel free to use it for real-time video streaming & Haiti updates as the relief efforts continue, and more ground breaking news coverage unfolds.

Help Haiti Relief show

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Plugged In NYC 2010

January 12th, 2010

Watchitoo Today Demo-ed the coming soon updated platform at the PluggedIn NYC conference (#PluggedIn) streaming live at the event and showcasing some of the dynamic interface capabilities during the real-time demo.

While showcasing the platform, Todd Kelly, our VP of business development highlighted a livestream of the audience from the PluggedIn event and the Watchitoo Team that joined from the New York Offices. (see below)

Todd Kelly VP of Business Development demoing Watchitoo to #pluggedIn crowd

Todd Kelly VP of Business Development demoing Watchitoo to #pluggedIn crowd

Rony Zarom Founder of Watchitoo ( follow him on twitter @RonyWatchitoo) responded to some of the questions that came from the audience at the conference on twitter. He posted a tweet about Watchitoo differentiators that set it apart from other competitors in the content-sharing, streaming, & collaboration arena.

Those key differentiators include:

  1. No Client Download Necessary
  2. Embeddable platform
  3. Scalable Live Events
  4. Multiple live stream participants (not just Peer-to-Peer)
  5. Cloud Support for thousands of users
  6. Customization: Flexible show creation interface

Below you see the experience of the Plugged In Watcitoo Livestream from a show participants laptop- capturing the Watchitoo show interface on the conference projector. Pretty Cool!

Plugged In NYC demo

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Best Moments from CES

January 10th, 2010

Sarah Austin of @pop17 Watchitoo Livestream from CES featured some exciting gadget reviews & Guests at  TechZone.  Sarah had a google nexus review done by @BenParr from mashable and appearances from J May CCO of Ford, Olga Kay, Hank Green, & others!

Here are some of the best moments captured during the Sarah Austin Live Stream on Watchitoo from CES:

Ben Parr CES 2010

Ben Parr from Mashable on Watchitoo at CES TechZone

J May CCO of Ford at Tech Zone with Sarah Austin & Olga Kay

J May CCO of Ford at Tech Zone with Sarah Austin & Olga Kay

Hank Green & Sarah Austin CES

Hank Green Joining Sarah Austin at CES from Montana

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Sarah Austin and Rony Zarom @ TECHZONE CES

January 8th, 2010

Today’s CES LIVE watchitoo Broadcast hosted by Sarah Austin of Pop17 from 12-3pm had some interesting guests, reviews, and CES footage.

More exciting recaps to come, but in the meantime we wanted to share this great capture of Sarah interviewing Rony about his entrepreneurial endevours, favorite CES highlights, and the story of founding watchitoo.

Rony Live from CES with Sarah Austin Watchitoo

They even had me join the show to say hi from the Watchitoo New York offices:-)

Sarah Austin Rony Me CES

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