Giving in to the hype from other iPhone users, I downloaded the Qik application through Cydia on my jailbroken iPhone, and recorded a couple of very pointless videos to test it out.  I may play around with this a little more, but don’t expect anything too fancy.  My life just isn’t fascinating enough for you to watch everything I do.

My initial thoughts on Qik:

1. This seems very cool for those who are on the go and want to share what’s going on with friends or followers, assuming you have something of importance to share, which so far I have not.
2. I find it interesting that the Qik iPhone app is technically capable of streaming live video to the web, even over the AT&T Edge network, yet it can’t view the videos that it has uploaded. Perhaps this was a design flaw, or maybe they’re holding out for an official App Store release.  Who knows?
3. It appears to be simple enough to add your Qik videos (both the live stream and recorded sessions) to a web page or blog using the code that is provided with every video.
4. It’s a place to hold my iPhone videos so they don’t have to be stored on the phone itself.  I tried the Cycorder apps, but frankly didn’t have time to figure out how to add it to a stream on my website.  Qik does this automatically, so what more could I ask for?

See my video samples at http://www.qik.com/webguyatwork if you’re up for a good laugh (or not).

I decided to take the plunge into the newest iPhone firmware, version 2.2, shortly after the QuickPWN announcement was made. It’s getting surprisingly simple to Jailbreak these days, and the releases of QuickPWN are coming out quicker after each official release from Apple.
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