I think live video streaming services like Qik could very well be the next big thing after

Twitter (here's our news report on Qik). It's still early days yet for live video streaming from mobile phones because cellular networks that can provide mobile broadband aren't pervasive enough globally (we're lucky to have islandwide 3G coverage). But when it is, all you need to broadcast live video to an audience of millions on the web is an affordable phone (with a built-in video camera) that can hook up remotely to the Internet. In my job as a journalist, a live video streaming service like Qik would enable me to report live with a piece of gear that fits in the palm of my hand. Despite the diminutive size of such handheld video capture devices and the lower quality of footage, the ability to witness events as they happen are far reaching. Just imagine, for example, the immediacy at which we could view the atrocities of war or civil unrest as they unfold on the ground in countries like Iran. In such cases, international help could arrive much faster if word got out instantly. And the experience of viewing it is much more engaging and compelling than reading simple text updates from Twitter. It makes the world that much smaller - and much more immediate. I was initially intrigued by Qik because I had chanced upon a fellow Singaporean working for the web startup. Audrey Tan (check out her Qik page here), who's currently studying at Stanford and holds a job at Qik as a product marketing manager. I'll let her introduce herself via Qik: Audrey helps us to interview Bhaskar Roy, one of the co-founders of Qik, to give a quick low-down on the live video streaming service and a brief tour around their office: