MySpace Debuts Mobile Video Streaming

Ever been sitting around a café with your buddies telling them about an awesome video you just posted to your MySpace page? Well now you can show them, if you have a video-enabled smartphone. The world’s most popular social networking site is now in beta with a mobile video initiative that allows users to stream videos they’ve uploaded to their MySpace profiles.

Will the initiative play, considering the proliferation of smartphones with browsers that give access to the true Internet? Why not pull up MySpace online and go from there?

The answer might be user experience. The application can feed video to a wide variety of mobile devices without users having to worry about the formatting. Users also can stream from TMZ, National Geographic, The Onion and College Humor.

Supported devices include the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and the Samsung Instinct. MySpace is hoping to leverage its 3-billion-page-views-per-month clout into wireless ad Nirvana, and so, the service is free.

“Video is a natural next step for us in mobile,” John Faith, vice president and general manager of Mobile for MySpace, said in a statement. “MySpace will continue to grow our video library as we increase delivery channels in order to keep pace with our users' accelerating desire for video consumption.”

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