WWIGO8 - Mobile Webcam
From left: TVS Deepak, M Thiyagarajan, P Naveen and K C Ramu are co-founders of Motvik Technologies
You may be forgiven for thinking WWIGO to be an acronym standing for tech jargon but it simply expands into 'WebCam Wherever I Go'. And that pretty much explains the function of this nifty little software.
With WWIGO, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with your PC or laptop using Bluetooth as the transmission medium. It consists of two software components: a mobile component that resides on the phone and streams video to the PC and a PC component that receives the video. By downloading this software (go to www.wwigo.com), you can use your camera phone as a wireless webcam. Also, you can record videos, use along with Skype, Windows Messenger and Yahoo Messenger to do video chat and upload to video-hosting websites such as YouTube.
We did not expect so many people to be interested, says M Thiyagarajan, part of the four-member founding team of Motvik Technologies that is behind this product. Today, they see around 500-600 downloads every day and the total number of downloads is touching 2 lakh.
All four members of the team, Thiyagarajan and TVS Deepak , Ramu KC and P Naveen were co-workers at a mobile multimedia startup called Emuzed. "We were developing some of the first applications for smart phones, which came into the Indian market years after they were developed. We wanted to use our expertise to build something for the Indian market and have it available immediately," says Thiyagarajan, popularly known as Rajan in the Bangalore/Hyderabad start-up circuit as the convener of the Bangalore chapter of Mobile Monday or MoMo a global community of wireless industry professionals which awarded WWIGO the peer award at its Global Summit in Malaysia in May 2008.
