With today’s advanced and often personal-sized technology, it’s possible for anyone to create, broadcast and share videos. Popular websites like YouTube are filled with millions of archived videos, some of which will be seen, but many of which won’t. We’re at the point in time where essentially anyone with a camera can become a broadcaster. But is anybody tuning in?

Archived video sites like YouTube are exploring live video through a limited number of events, but the rest of us are making do with posting “canned” videos that don’t exceed specific size limitations, and the like.  Granted, YouTube did get us all started on the video-over-the-Internet trend, but video can and is being leveraged for much more than static postings on a website. As we know from the mobile video solutions available today, people want live video with interactivity with the broadcaster. But these mobile solutions are hampered by low resolution, and less-than-ideal chat interactivity.  If consumers can get their hands on video sharing tools that are flexible, interactive and incorporate high-quality video, then it will help interpersonal communication move forward even faster.

My company Dyyno believes that what we’ve seen in terms of personal use of video is just the beginning of a much larger movement, and we’re here to do our part to help advance the democratization of video. Dyyno makes sharing video and any other application on your computer a snap and best of all, Dyyno makes it  free.  Share from your webcam, camcorder, or broadcast anything from your PowerPoint to your entire desktop. We’re making live video sharing a possibility, and we’ll be posting thoughts on what we’re seeing in the industry here, along with some practical examples of how people are using our platform.

Chabot College, a prominent community college in the San Francisco Bay Area has been able to use the Dyyno Personal Channel to capture and share images and videos from a single computer screen to tens of thousands of viewers.  They have been able to create how-to videos that include software training, cooking, exercise instruction and more. These videos for now reach over 90,000 viewers in the East Bay Area and will soon be available throughout California.  The Dyyno Personal Channel is so easy to use that Chabot College completely eliminated the typical behind-the-scenes tech work. You can do the same.

To end this first post in what we’ll make a fun, informative part of your time on the Internet, we invite you to try a free DPC for yourself. Give it a go at http://www.dyyno.com/signup.