Our Watchitoo intern Max P who joined us this summer, came on road with us to Chicago  to help with the  the multi-streaming live production we did from the Mashable 2010 Summer Tour. After his experience he shared his impressions with us, and created his own Watchitoo show that you can click here to view:  http://watchitoopro.com/show/wue-507

Max we enjoyed your time here at Watchitoo HQ, thanks for all of your help!
~The Watchitoo Team

“Multi-streaming seems to be the way of the future. So much information and entertainment is available online and maximizing communication capabilities is an obvious step in technological growth. Watchitoo’s platform is right on the cusp of this development and with a lot of work and maybe some good voodoo I have faith they can become an innovative leader for the concept.

Following Mashable on the road for the summer tour opened my eyes to the amount of power in the new internet enterprises. There is a lot of development going on that will take the internet in many new directions, and what it restored in me was belief that this is a good thing. There is some widespread concern that as everything becomes digitized we are losing some type of quality, longevity, or even dignity. Seeing all the new platforms and the interesting minds that created them led me to believe that these people will be putting it back.

Live streaming is going to let the world see events big or small in an increasingly interactive way. Something that television has laid the groundwork for but stepped short of on the interactive front. Through live streaming we can increase collaboration throughout the globe, in a much more accessible fashion, and let anybody watching at home get involved as well.
So for my live streaming choices I tried to get a good range of what I believe defines myself, hope that sounds as cliche as I didn’t intend it to. : )

I started out with the obviously shameless self promotional plug of me and my friends website, HAHAfuntime.com, and then included some solo skate footage shot during the last 2 years. Then gave a glimpse at what my good buddy and entrepreneurial powerhouse, Jason Valencia, is doing with his new company JSLV. From there it just goes into pure inspiration including: the aesthetically pleasing skating of Jahmal Williams from the DNA video, the amazing guitar playing of Paco De Lucia, a mini expose on one of my favorite artists’ – Picasso, a kid I went to high school with’s interesting new band – Last Good Tooth, and finally a short animation by William Kentridge.”

Hope you enjoy!

~Max P

Rachel Sklar (Editor at Large at Mediaite) our on-site host will be interviewing SummerMash attendees at the event live, while virtual participants and viewers watch from around the country and participate.

We will have Vanessa Rae hosting live in New York accompanied by Watchitoo’s own Nyle Emerson to engage with online viewers through the live chat and twitter feed.

Comedian @Alison Rosen will also have a guest cameo as a virtual participant around 8:15 EST!

Don’t miss it! www.mashable.com/summermash/live

Watchitoo Team (@hilaraz @BrianAugust @donkthought)  is on the road with the wonderful @mashable team for their Mashable Summer Tour 2010. First stop this past weekend was in Seattle at the Hyatt Olive8 where all guests/sponsors/social media personalities were featured on the exclusive Watchitoo Multistream embedded on mashable (Please RT: http://bit.ly/mashlive)

We had a great time out there with Rachel Sklar who interviewed  Mashable CEO and Founder: Pete Cashmore and many others. Recap footage and highlights will soon be featured on the Watchitoo Blog & on Mashable. We even had @adventuregirl join us when Brett Petersel & Karen Hartline were on the Watchitoo Carpet. Look below at our awesome photos.

Mashable also posted great event photos not to be missed!

Tour Stop #2 is tonight Live from Grand Hyatt in San Francisco starting at 7:15 pm PST and will include cameos from various virtual guests joining us live from around the country: Sarah Evans, Marc Ostrick, Stephanie Michaels, Lauren Perkins, Jonathan Morvay, & Vanessa Rae.

Join us and make some fun youtube contest submissions to be featured LIVE on Watchitoo for the rest of the tour with stops in DC, NYC, & Chicago early August!

NEW YORK–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Watchitoo, the New York based real-time social collaboration platform, has been selected as the multistreaming partner for the Mashable Summer Tour beginning in Seattle on July 10^th at 8:30pm PST. The tour will make a stop in San Francisco on July 14^th followed by Washington D.C., New York City and Chicago in August. The Watchitoo platform will be embedded on Mashable.com for viewers around the world to watch and participate live.

“We are honored and excited to have been selected by Mashable, the top source for news in social and digital media, technology, and web culture, as their multistreaming partner for this year’s summer tour”

“We’re thrilled to have Watchitoo on board as our multistreaming partner for this year’s summer tour,” said Pete Cashmore, Founder and CEO of Mashable. “The Watchitoo platform will allow for fans who can’t make it to the events to interact with those on the ground. It’s an amazing way to connect with our supporters and bring everyone into the same room.”

Each live event will be hosted by Rachel Sklar (Editor-At-Large of Mediaite.com), co-hosted by Sarah Evans (principle at Sevans Strategy), and will feature interviews with attendees as well as special guests and contributors who will be “beamed in” from around the country.

“We are honored and excited to have been selected by Mashable, the top source for news in social and digital media, technology, and web culture, as their multistreaming partner for this year’s summer tour,” said Rony Zarom, CEO of Watchitoo. “This is a tremendous opportunity and provides us yet another example to showcase Watchitoo as the ideal platform to broadcast live events.”

Summer Tour 2010 Contest

Watchitoo and Mashable are also jointly running a Summer Tour 2010 Contest where interested participants can upload a video on YouTube explaining why he or she should be streamed live to interact online with the hosts and virtual guests at the events. With each user’s submission, he or she will also be entered in a chance to win tickets to attend a Summer Mashable event of his or her choosing. Please visit here for more details about the contest.

Watchitoo allows 10+ participants to communicate via a web-cam in real time, while collaborating around a custom-designed rich media playlist. A passive audience of thousands can view the show online. Any viewer can be added into a show via a virtual green room, where a moderator can adjust their microphone, have a private one-on-one chat, and vet their overall suitability to participate. Streams can be inserted, removed, re-arranged and re-sized in real time.

More details will come in the following weeks regarding the video streams for Washington D.C., New York City and Chicago.

Those not attending the Mashable Summer Tour in person can watch and participate in the shows by visiting:

http://Mashable.com/SummerMash/Live/

Tickets are still available for those interested in attending the West Coast events. Details below:

Seattle, WA
Where: Hyatt at Olive 8, 1635 8^th Ave
When: Saturday, July 10
Time: 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. PST
Mashable Presence: Pete Cashmore, Adam Hirsch, Ben Parr, Karen Hartline, Brett Petersel, Vadim Lavrusik, and Jolie O’Dell
Watchitoo Presence: Brian August and Hila Raz
Tickets: Tickets are available through Eventbrite.

San Francisco, CA
Where: Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 345 Stockton St.
When: Wednesday, July 14
Time: 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. PST
Mashable Presence: Pete Cashmore, Adam Hirsch, Ben Parr, Karen Hartline, Brett Petersel, Jolie O’Dell, and Jenn Van Grove
Watchitoo Presence: Brian August and Hila Raz
Tickets: Tickets are available through Eventbrite.

About Watchitoo

Watchitoo is an embeddable, live multistreaming platform that allows 10+ participants to see and hear one another in real time, collaborate around any form of rich media, and be viewed by an audience scalable into the thousands. CEO Rony Zarom founded Watchitoo Inc. in January 2007 and is also the founder and chairman of Decima Ventures.

Key features of the Watchitoo platform include high-def recording/archiving, screen-sharing, real-time moderation, “hand-raising” to pose questions, white-boarding, text/video chat, full Twitter integration, and direct Facebook posting. Shows on Watchitoo can be made open to the public or private for a specific audience. Watchitoo is ideal for internal enterprise business meetings, panel discussions, live performances, education, political campaigning, media broadcasting, or any situation where a group of geographically dispersed individuals needs to collaborate quickly and easily while sharing media.

Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6353907&lang=en

“As we prepare to launch our new Pro version in the coming months, opportunities like these events provide us with an ideal venue to showcase why Watchitoo is the premiere platform for live streaming events.”

“We are grateful to have been chosen to provide live, online video streaming for DigitalFlashNYC’s Conversation with Bonin Bough, SoundCtrl’s Fire-side Chat and Hot & Bothered,” said Rony Zarom, CEO of Watchitoo. “As we prepare to launch our new Pro version in the coming months, opportunities like these events provide us with an ideal venue to showcase why Watchitoo is the premiere platform for live streaming events.”

Watchitoo allows users to interact with others via web cam and chat while collaborating in real-time. This all takes place in a synchronized environment within the web browser.

Those not attending the Internet Week events in person can watch the live streams by visiting:

About Watchitoo

Founded in January 2007 by entrepreneur and venture capitalist Rony Zarom, Watchitoo enables users to synchronously view and share content while engaging in multiple video and text chats through a web-based offering.

The company provides a consumer version as well as an upcoming Pro version for business that includes enhanced features ideal for video conferencing and virtual meetings. The platform can also be used for live events, allowing speakers and guests to address conferences, panels and industry gatherings from remote locations.

Personal Democracy Forum is being held this year at the CUNY Graduate center in NYC is the “world’s leading conference exploring and analyzing technology’s impact on politics and government.”

@HilaRaz & @BrianAugust from Watchitoo attended and demo-ed the platform to leading political constitiencies

Brian August Watchitoo’s Director of Content and Strategy gave an interactive demo showcasing two use cases for watchitoo- take a look: www.watchitoo.com/pro3/PDF

1. Live streaming political campaigns & interactive virtual townhalls

2. Conducting interactive virtual meetings or webinars for organizations, institutions, and politicians or candidates.

Brian’s (@BrianAugust) thoughts on the demo:

“It’s pointless to create a compelling demo without actually “doing what you do”. But when what you do is live collaborative multi-streaming, there’s a conundrum; go for the glory, conduct a full blown demo, and risk embarrassing technical failure, or scale things back and present something safe but unspectacular. Yesterday, in all of six minutes, Watchitoo demoed it’s platform by presenting to live dramatic use cases: a political organization conducting a virtual team meeting, and a candidate running an interactive town hall. Five live streams being swapped and resized, HD video, remote moderation and me playing the role of the candidate in front of 800 people. And it all worked really well..

Do what you do!”

the livestream can also be viewed at www.watchitoo.com/pro/socin

It’s a great opportunity to explore Social Cinema and TV with these dynamic panelists and network with industry leaders.

Panelists Include: (Bio’s as seen on socin.org)

• Frank Radice, Moderator, Definition 6, Expert In Residence
• Adam Broitman, Circ.us, Partner, Chief Ringleader
• Ryan Osborn, NBC, Producer, Today Show; Social Media Task Force
• Bill Hartnett, NBC, SVP of Advertising and Promotion
• Mike Berkley, Comcast, Product Strategy
• Brian August, Watchitoo, Director of Media and Content

* Frank Radice, Moderator, Definition 6, Expert In Residence

Frank J. Radice is the Expert in Residence at Interactive Advertising Agency, Definition 6. He is also the Managing Partner of the Promotion, Marketing, Media, and consulting firm, VIDA F.R. Company in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Mr. Radice previously has been EVP of NBC Agency and the former President and Chief Marketing Officer of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He serves on the Board of Governors of the New York Festivals, and on the advisory boards of World Wide Fan Clubs and The Broadway Walk of Stars. He has 30 years experience in media, marketing, promotion and production. http://Definition6.com/; http://FrankRadice.com/

* Adam Broitman, Circ.us, Partner, Chief Ringleader

Adam Broitman is Partner and Chief Ringleader at Circ.us, an NYC based creative communications firm that helps brands and their agencies tell stories through innovation and participation. Adam is a recognized expert in all aspects of the ever-changing digital media+marketing and advertising landscape. A thought leader in the marketing industry, Adam is known for devising cutting edge marketing strategies for clients ranging from Kraft, Cisco, The New York Times and Panasonic to LVMH, The Energy Project and A&E. http://Circ.us/

* Bill Hartnett, NBC, SVP of Advertising and Promotion

Bill Hartnett is the Senior Vice President of NBC News Marketing. Hartnett oversses brand strategy, creative services and digital marketing for all NBC News Properties, including “Today,” “NBC Nightly News,” “Dateline NBC,” and “Meet the Press.”

Previously, Hartnett served as Senior Vice President of the ABC Agency, East Coast. In this capacity he managed the daily operation of both NBC News and MSNBC marketing and on-air promotion. He also supervised promotion for “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” for NBC Entertainment. Hartnett has been with NBC for 15 years. http://nbc.com/

* Ryan Osborn, NBC, Producer, Today Show; Social Media Task Force

Ryan Osborn is a Producer at NBC’s Today Show, and he gets Social Media. As he works in a broadcast newsroom, Ryan faces a completely new set of challenges than what is typically faces by most newspaper folks. Be sure to check out http://OldMediaNewTricks.com/old-media-interview-ryan-osborn-producer-nbc-today-show/ http://nbc.com/

* Mike Berkley, Comcast, Product Strategy

Mike Berkley presently heads up Product Strategy at Comcast. He is responsible for setting Comcast’s strategy for social innovation on next generation TV products. Prior to Comcast, Berkley served as CEO for SplashCast Media, from 2006 to 2009, pioneering social TV in the online video space. SplashCast provided both real-time and asynchronous social functionality for top content providers, including Hulu, PBS, and Sony, via Facebook applications.

When he has time, Berkley contributes to the TV News Stream Blog, covering all things related to the business of Onlive Video, OTT, and Social TV. http://TVNewsStream.com/ also tweets from @MikeBerkley. http://Comcast.com/Berkley

* Brian August, Watchitoo, Director of Media and Content

Brian August is the Director of Media and Content at Watchitoo, a two way multiple live streaming platform that allows users to collaborate in real time, while viewing a broad array of rich media content. Previously, Brian was the President of Webster Hall Digital Media and the creator of Event Horizons, a unique conference that explored the frontier of how video, mobile and social tools can be seamlessly integrated into live events. Brian also co-founded Plentitube, an online agency that connects television networks with the best original content on the web, creating an agile and innovative new programming paradigm. A digital media attorney with more then 20 years of experience, Brian has had a array of legal and strategic business roles with numerous internet technology start-ups. http://Watchitoo.com/

Tonight we will be providing live, online video streaming for the upcoming Producers Guild of America event – “Going Green in Film Production: Taking a Look at Bigger, Bolder Steps in Greening Your Set.” The event will be held on April 21^st from 6:30pm-9:00pm ET at Post Factory NY.

“We’re extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with such an esteemed organization like the Producers Guild of America,” said Rony Zarom, CEO of Watchitoo. “Our Live Events platform is continuing to be recognized as the ideal choice on which to conduct these types of live streaming events.”

“The Producers Guild of America is excited to work with Watchitoo and leverage its unique technology,” said Dana Kuznetkoff, Vice Chair of the PGA East. “This is a great opportunity to share these panels with our West Coast members and those who cannot attend the event.”

“Going Green in Film Production” is a continuing series from the PGA dedicated to raising awareness and educating the film and television community on eco-friendly shooting. This event will showcase how filmmakers can take steps to make their sets more environmentally conscious, including advancements in alternative energies, lighting technologies and waste management. The panelists will include: Tom Leavey (Local 187, Theatrical Teamsters), Demian Resnick (DGA, Locations Manager), Bobby Sciretta (Local 52, Film and Television Gaffer), Steve Wertimer (DGA, Co-Executive Producer TV) and Mari Jo Winkler (PGA, DGA, Executive Producer, Line Producer Feature Films). The discussion will be moderated by documentary producer and PGA member Katie Carpenter.

Those not attending the event in person can watch the live stream by visiting: www.watchitoo.com/pro/PGAGreen.

Partnering up with the Skirball Center at NYU for an event hosted by the NYU Undergraduate Law Society, the Bronfman Center, and Selma Rubin Distinguished Lecture Series, Watchitoo provided the technological means to livestream the important event last night “TAKE ACTION NOW” adressing the global genocide problem, and what all activists  of any age can do to aid genocide prevention.

With guest speakers including: Opening remarks by worldly acclaimed Christopher Hitchens, John Prendergast, and Mark Hanis (@markhanis) the event was attended by NYU students, and representation from NGOs, academics,  and affiliates committed to the global fight to end worldwide genocide. The speakers were livestreamed to an online audience and recordings of the event and HD video footage of each speaker can be found at this link below.

www.watchitoo.com/pro/takeactionNYU