AT&T BlueRoom and iPhones at Bonnaroo

AT&T BlueRoom featured great live performances this weekend from the scene of the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester Tennessee.   One unplanned gift AT&T gave Bonnaroo fans watching from home was multiple live video streams being webcast from the iPhones in the crowd.

As I write this article, a fan is broadcasting tonight’s live Phish show on his Ustream.tv Channel to over 4700 remote viewers. The viewers can “Tweet” in a side chat panel. Once submitted, each tweet is automatically tagged with #phish and the URL of the video feed, what great promotion.

Tweets, YouTube and Facebook mobile uploads from the crowd are overloading AT&Ts bandwidth between songs. This causes the video feed to get choppy momentarily, but once a new song starts the quality returns.  Enormous use of social media and blogging has lead some media to refer to this years even at “Bloggaroo 2009″.

Phish 2009 Summer Tour Dates Announced

Just Announced: PHISH SUMMER TOUR DATES

June 4-5: Nikon at Jones Beach Theater – Wantagh, NY
June 6: Comcast Center – Mansfield, MA
June 7: Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
June 9: Asheville Civic Center – Asheville, NC
June 16: Fox Theatre – St. Louis, MO
June 18: Post Gazette Pavilion – Burgettstown, PA
June 19: Verizon Wireless Music Center – Noblesville, IN