This morning I tried out a new service called Kyte.tv which lets you create and watch video channels on cell phones and the web. It is launching tomorrow, but you can try it out early by using the trial code gigakyte, thanks to Gigaom.

Creating a Kyte.tv channel from the web
Using Hmmcast #100 I created a Mobile Hmmcast channel. The process was fast, smooth and I was able to easily drag a transparent poll option to the Hmmcast. Just select Produce from the top Kyte.tv menu, choose your video or picture content and upload from your computer. The generated channel page kyte.tv/tdavid contains an embedded chat (nice) and a familiar video option a la YouTube to transfer to your website and special embed code for MySpace:

A sound that plays every time someone visits your channel page or says something in chat, which could drive you to look for the volume slider. Shortly after publishing my mobile Hmmcast, an anonymous Kyter stopped by and said hello.

A relatively small list of supported cell phones work with Kyte.TV. I wasn’t able to see how Kyte looks there because our son’s phone isn’t on the list (I haven’t had a cell phone since December 2006).

Email producing channel content
An alternative to adding video and/or pictures to your Kyte.TV channel is by using email. E-mail shows can contain pictures and text. This page provides instructions:

* E-mail address: channelname@kyte.tv
* E-mail subject: creates kyte show title
* Attached pictures: turns into kyte slide show
* Attached video file (20MB max): turns into kyte video show
* E-mail text: turns into kyte show text

You can choose to let others contribute to your channel either without an access code or with one. I left the Mobile Hmmcast channel open so feel free to send something along as a test if you don’t want to create your own channel.

Hmm thoughts
Anybody agree or disagree that there are way too many video sites out there? I think it’s time to find something new to clone, er I mean create. The ability with Kyte.TV to send video and pictures along by email is somewhat interesting but how easy would it be for Google to add these features to YouTube? What about Twitter adding video and pictures (something that comes up a lot)? This one leaves me feeling a bit ho-hum. What do you think?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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