Jackie Danicki

Qik’s US team

Originally uploaded by dynamist.

Allow me to be earnest for one moment, and then I’ll go back to being my usual superficial, cynical self: I work with very clever people who care a whole hell of a lot about what we produce and how good it is for our users. As if that wasn’t enough, they’re great fun. If you’re going to be around the same group of people most days, this is the group you want it to be. I simply could not ask for a better place to be.

Our Moscow team isn’t in this photo because…well, they’re in Moscow. But here’s who is present: Irina Bulatova, Vladimir Rodionov, David McCuskey, Bhaskar Roy, Rishi Mallik, Lauren Batty, Daniel Brusilovsky, Vijay Tella, me, Rao Jane Fu, Dhawal Shah, Michael Fortson, Nancy Broden, Prathap Sridharan, Hrag Chanchanian, and Ramu Sunkara. (Adam Singer is sadly absent from this photo.)

On that note, a few Qik updates:

1) Many team members in Russia and the US worked 12+ hour shifts over the holiday weekend to push out a major Qik update that can drive users’ videos down to one second latency. It’s an unprecedented achievement in the area of live mobile-to-web streaming video, and I’m just incredibly proud of my colleagues for what they’ve accomplished here.

2) You can now share your Qik videos with specific groups of people. These include public, restricted, and totally private groups.

3) We used to make dedicated event pages for people who requested them, but now any Qik user can create your own event Qik page. Other Qik users who are attending the same event can indicate that they will be there, and the videos they shoot at the event will automatically be aggregated on the dedicated page. Of course, others can watch and everyone can subscribe to events through iTunes or your RSS reader.

4) Last week, we also rolled out a whole new Qik player.

5) Finally, for the Apple religionists out there, Daniel Brusilovsky has put together a nifty Mac dashboard widget.

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