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Justin.tv has been a major player in streaming video for over 4 years now. When the website first came online the purpose was streaming mobile video with a web cam, small laptop and a mobile broadband card. Now 4 years later JTV is finally releasing their 1st application on a mobile phone platform. Today the Justin.tv application was released to the android market. Being a lifecaster just became a whole lot easier. Maybe we should start calling is droidcasting since it is coming from an android phone.

Justin.tv Broadcaster Android App

The Justin.tv application is currently available to all android phones running android 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. It is a very simple application to use. Just log into your Justin.tv account, choose which social network you want to share your broadcast with and then hit the giant red record button. Within seconds you are streaming live video to your Justin.tv channel. Also included in the app is chat. Currently you can only broadcast with the application but the guys over at Justin.tv are hard at work building in the ability to watch video on the phone which would make this app so much more epic. The entire Justin.tv experience inside one application would be awesome. It is coming and hopefully it is out very soon.
The following video is narrated by the one and only Justin Kan. He gives you a little demo of how everything works in the new application. Don’t mind his voice. He thinks he could have been a voice over person for movies. After this video I am going to say he has no future is voice work.

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Check in and let your friends and followers know where you are at and what you are doing. Location-based social networks have gained popularity over the past year. Lots of different sites to choose from in the mobile check-in space. With all the various networks out there it is becoming harder to keep up with your friends on each network. 3 of the major location networks are foursquare, gowalla, and brightkite. All great networks and all have distinguishing features. Foursquare which just past 1 million users has mayors, badges and to-do lists. Gowalla has items and trips. Brightkite has the location feeds with photos and notes. If you are a user of all 3 it is a pain to go into each one individually to check yourself in and also keep up on what your friends are doing.

What is missing from the mobile check-in world is an application that brings all the services together and lets you see what is going on with ALL your friends. Most people are only going to check into 1 network. Creating some sort of mash-up app would lead to more usage of these sites. So listing where your friends are currently would be feature numero uno. The ability to check into the different sites would also be a no brainer to have in this application. Most of these networks also have tons of city data that can be pulled in to show where the hot spots are currently in a certain area. That is what I want. Someone build it and make location-based social networking easier on myself and the world.

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