On Wednesday, Robert MacMillan reported with Reuters that popular social networking website MySpace.com is taking a dive into the mobile phone market by streaming video clips directly to devices such as the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct.
As opposed to the Apple iPhone, which only runs videos after they are downloaded to the device, MySpace’s new program will stream videos from its social networking pages directly to these phones.
Do you use MySpace? If so, you’ll not only have access to a stream of videos from your own page, but from your friends pages, and professional videos from site such as TMZ, the National Hockey League, National Geographic magazine, The Onion and more yet to be announced.
By integrating special technology from RipCode, MySpace will be able to stream such videos to mobile devices— carefully facilitating each video based on the “different technical specifications for how they handle” the file type.
RipCode will also give MySpace the chance to conserve their hardware and storage by no longer requiring them to save video clips in a variety of formats.
Like many of MySpace’s projects, this new feature is free for users and is supported by the revenue from company advertising.
MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe commented to Reuters that this is one of many projects MySpace is working on to beef up its web-presence: the social network also hopes to create and distribute mobile phone applications, support video downloads to mobile devices as well as continue to expand its MySpace Music platform and its international reach.
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