New funding / strategic partnerships

This morning we announced new funding from Telefónica, Nokia Growth Partners and DoCoMo Capital, among others. You can download the press release here if you’re so inclined. For us, the most exciting thing about this announcement is the massive distribution potential of partnering with world leaders in communications and mobility. Daniel explains it best in this conversation with Robert Scoble below:

Here’s another Kyte show I produced from my Nokia N95 while Scoble produced an instant Kyte webcam show, which he posted to his blog.

Kyte Mobile Auto Update

Worried that you might not be running the latest and greatest version of Kyte Mobile? Don’t be. Whenever we release a new version you will be prompted to download it when you launch Kyte Mobile and make a network connection.

New Kyte Mobile Web Features

The Kyte Mobile Web application gets better with every release. Here are some of the highlights from the latest version, just released Monday:

• Kytefeed - now includes relevant chat messages, channel moderation alerts, and new trackbacks.
• Search - now you can search for Channels.
• Notifications - more AJAX-based notifcations for new shows, new slides (LifeStreams), live viewer count.

New Kyte Release

Today we released a new version of Kyte and I’d like to share with you some of the new features.Produce in Player (PiP):

This is a big one for us and something we’ve been planning for a while. The “Produce in Player” provides a simple and convenient way to quickly share pictures, video, or webcam shows right from the player itself, no matter where it’s embedded. Producing a show is really easy: Just click on ‘Produce’ and select what kind of show you want to create (either pictures, video or webcam). After you’ve created your show you can add music or go back and make edits.

By the way, you can still use the advanced Kyte producer tool. Simply click on the link at the bottom of the first “produce a show” screen.

Expanded Kytefeed

We’ve updated the Kytefeed to include your Facebook friends’ activity (if you’re using Kyte on Facebook), chat snippets, new trackback alerts, and channel moderation alerts (pending, approved, rejected).

Social Network Injection

Embedding your Kyte channel in multiple destinations is now super easy. Simply click embed and you’re on your way:

Improved Search Experience

You can now search for both channels and shows. The new search feature includes titles and tags.

Mobile Update

There are a lot of improvements on the mobile end (Kytefeed, Sharing via email) improving the mobile experience.

Hope you enjoy the new release. Please let us know what you think!

How to disable popups when starting Kyte Mobile Application?

Do you have one of these Nokia Series 60 phones?

You can disable the “choose your network” and “allow camera access” popups from the Java-Application J2ME following these steps:

1. Start phone
2. Click ‘Menu’
3. Click ‘Tools’
4. Click ‘App. Mgr.’
5. Find & click ‘Kyte’
6. Click ‘Open’
7. Click ‘Access point’ and select ’Cingular MMS‘ (for AT&T users)
8. Click ‘OK’
9. Click on ‘Network access’ and select ’Always allowed‘
10. Click on ‘Multimedia’ and select ’Always allowed‘
11. Click ‘Back’ and then ‘Exit’

NOTE: These settings will remain in place until you uninstall Kyte.
When changing your carrier (eg. travelling), simply reset the “Access point” setting to your local carrier.