Broadcast live directly on Facebook

We know you’ve all wanted this and now you've got it!

We’re taking our Facebook integration to a new level. When you have connected your Bambuser account to Facebook the live broadcasts will now be seen in the news feed – of course all your friends will also be able to watch it on demand from the news feed after you’ve finished broadcasting. We’ve been testing this day and night for the last few days and what we've seen is that the number of views per broadcast increases dramatically – yay!

If you already have connected your Bambuser account to Facebook you will have to disconnect it on bambuser.com and re-connect it again to make it work. We tried to find a shortcut but couldn't - sorry about this.

Some updates on Android

Just a short stop to say some words about the updates made on our android app.

Bambuser for Android, version 1.1

-Added full support for storing and uploading complement data
-Improved support for Android 1.6 (Donut)
-Refined user interface
-More efficient bandwidth usage and less lag

Bambuser for Android released!

Bambuser adds support for broadcasting live over 3G or WiFi from the highly popular Android platform!

This initial release supports all currently available phones running Android 1.5, such as HTC's Dream, Magic, Hero and Samsung's Galaxy. Check out the full list on bambuser.com/phones.

The application includes a wide range of quality-settings, which makes it possible to scale the broadcast video and audio to suit your device and connection speed. You can choose to broadcast publicly or in private, and can enable geotagging of your broadcasts using built-in GPS.

The application shows incoming chat messages while you broadcast, making it possible to interact with viewers anywhere.

During the coming months we'll be working on adding additional features such as uploading complement data and pushing your broadcasts to friends, blogs and more. We welcome any feedback or suggestions for features, don't hesitate to contact us.

You can always find the latest version of the application through the Android Market or on bambuser.com/phones. Here's a link directly to Bambuser on the Android Market, if you are viewing this page on an Android device.

Yet another update to Bambuser for Windows Mobile

We recently released an updated version (1.1.1.0) of the Windows Mobile client, which brings progress on several fronts.

The most noticeable change in this version is the ability to rotate the user interface and the sent video, to support a wide range of devices, and to be able to send landscape instead of portrait video on more devices. You can find this under Settings in the application.

Secondly, this version has improved video encoding. The new codec is very well suited for low bandwidth conditions and will give you better flowing broadcasts when you select the lower video quality settings. The high quality setting will continue to use a simpler codec, for maximum detail and speed at the cost of bandwidth.

Additionally, the new version gives more informative feedback in case of connection problems and contains bugfixes for some other rare problems.

Bambuser nominated in 2 categories for "The Europas"

Bambuser is nominated in two categories for the TechCrunch held "The Europas" award. Please give us a hand and vote for us so we can head over t London and take home an award or two.
-The Europas: Best Mobile Startup (EMEA) (vote here)
- The Europas: Best Mobile Application (EMEA) (vote here)