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New kiosk app records videos, incorporates file sharing and social networking

August 20, 2009

Cincinnati-based video promotions company nSixty LLC has launched a kiosk application that incorporates video-recording kiosks with e-mail and Web-based file sharing.

The small-format kiosk houses a PC, video camera, microphone and two display screens – one runs continuous promotional messages and the other functions as a touchscreen user interface through which the user controls the video-recording and file-sharing processes.

A news release from nSixty explains how a user goes about sharing the video files:

Kiosk software records and automatically uploads videos to the nSixty Web site, which features Web 2.0 technology and customization tools. An e-mail containing a link to the video is sent to the user's e-mail address and any other contacts supplied by the user. Videos are stored on the nSixty server and played through a file-sharing Web site.

Users can record and share videos using n60's new kiosk application.

The file-sharing service features a variety of advertising options for nSixty sponsors, including video pre-rolls, pop-ups and standard banner ads. It also offers links to posting the video on social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Digg, and includes a visitor comments area.

NSixty deployers can customize the kiosks in a number of ways to serve their branding purposes. Custom enclosures, branded on-screen messaging and ad content in e-mail notifications all are available options.

Matt Berlange, project manager for nSixty, says possible deployment environments are numerous:

This is a simple way for people to record and share a video on their experiences at various venues, while also allowing sponsor companies to deliver an advertising and branding message to users and the people they share their videos with. There (are) unlimited applications for this type of system.

The company has tested the kiosks at several locations near its home base, including the Cincinnati Zoo, Taste of Cincinnati, Black Family Reunion and the Yellow Ribbon Support Center. NSixty says it also is testing satellite-uplink capabilities for remote deployments where Internet may not be available.