Live streaming technologies seem to be everywhere at the moment with the release of tools like Meerkat, Periscope and Facebook Live.
While other tools – like Google Hangouts and older tools like Ustream have been around for years it seems that these new tools are getting easier to use and have better and better features. More importantly they’re working better and better on mobile.
One of the new tools that I’ve started using in the last week is Blab – a tool that enables you and three other people to live stream at the same time on the same page and to have an interactive conversation while potentially hundreds or even thousands of others watch on and interact with you in streaming comments. It’s like the lovechild of Google Hangouts and Periscope.
Blab is still in beta but I’m almost overwhelmed with the possibilities of this tool for bloggers and have run a few blabs of my own to test it.
The biggest of these was this morning in a blab where I presented 20 tips for building great blogs.
The blab only finished a few minutes ago but Blab have already emailed me an audio and video file of the session and sent me the embed code which I’ll paste here.
At present the embed code doesn’t show you any of the comments from the chat but you can head to this page to see the replay, the last 200 comments and to see how the tool looks (there were many hundreds if not thousands of others).
While you’re there if you sign up for an account (it uses Twitter to set up your account) please do follow me here and you’ll be notified of future blabs that I do (I’ve got more planned as it’s been so good so far). You’ll also see my previous blab replays listed on my profile page if you want to check those out.
