Nokia to host five city webcast New Year's Eve
Nokia along with MSN will webcast a five city live concert on New Year's Eve in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Berlin, Rio, and New York. The event will be produced by Control Room, a company formed by the producers of AOL's Live 8 concert and will stream the acts on MSN Video.
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New York performers include Rihanna, Ludacris, and KT Tunstall. In Hong Kong, Atomic Kitten and Hacken Lee will play. Mumbai will have Nelly Furtado; Berlin will have The Scissor Sisters; and Rio will have the Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes and John Legend.
If I were at Nokia, I would equip dozens of viewer in each of the the five cities with their N93 video camera phone to record the event from "the ground" and upload video live to a site. The video mashups would be available alongside the professional webcast and create a "Night in the Life" of New Year's with a global community feel.
