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Really Enjoyed DemoCamp Vancouver 12 yesterday. Great Venue. Great energy from some great pitches and some great looking companies and ideas. Best yet. The only thing that could be improved is lighting for videos :-). Can we shine a light on the presenters next time? Just kidding! Some sample videos (I was able to stream about 16 or 17 including happy birthday to Justin of 49 pixels and all the pitches) after the jump of The Perfect Song and QuikPiq (randomly selected!).

I was disappointed by my N900 live-streamed Qik Videos:

• The videos are too dark! But what can you expect from a cameraphone :-) Hope the N8 is better in low light. Or perhaps I should think of a portable light. Anybody know of a portable lighting solution?
• I was also disappointed by the Qik application itself which seems to have lost (or maybe it's an N900 or Maemo bug) the 6 presentations that were buffered in the N900 Qik application but Windmobile couldn't stream fast enough in real time (probably because of Wind's nascent, un-tuned un-optimized 3G network and lack of base stations).

pitch from Quikpiq

pitch from The Perfect Song

Got my first Wind Mobile bill on the weekend and it says I was "data roaming" when I stayed in the Wind Home zone. It says the following:

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WIND AWAY Zone + Roaming $7.64

WIND AWAY Zone + Roaming charges kick in when you use your phone outside a foreign country. We’re constantly improving our reach across Canada so we can give you the best service possible.For an up-to-date map of WIND HOME & AWAY Zones visit windmobile.com or call us toll free 1-877-80WIND1

Data - AWAY + ROAMING

Date Time 06/17 02:10 PM 1.865 MB Away $7.64

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I believe this is a bug. I was not in a Wind Away Zone. I spent the whole day of Thursday June 17, 2010 in East Vancouver, and Gastown, all of which are in the Wind Home Zone. Anybody else experience this? Is this really a bug? I'll contact Wind support but love to hear what others have experienced.