Watch The Obama Inauguration From Your iPhone With Ustream

John Ham, the cofounder and CEO of live video streaming site Ustream, stopped by this afternoon to show me their newest stuff -- a yet-to-be-released application that lets users watch live streams from the service on their iPhone. I took a brief video of the product and embedded it below, along with the more official video from Ustream.

The application will let users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. And not only that, users will also see and be able to participate in the live chat around the video as well.

The timing on the application is near perfect with the Obama inauguration coming up on January 20. If you have the application installed you’ll be able to watch it live from anywhere, even if you aren’t in front of your TV or computer.

The world is changing before our eyes.

If you’d like to try out the application before it officially launches, we have a handful of invitations to give away. Just follow the directions below.

Instructions for preview:

1) Plug the iPhone into your computer
2) Wait for the iPhone info to appear in iTunes
3) click on the words “Serial Number” to cause it to change to “Identifier”
4) double-click the identifier number (the long string of characters) and then press cmd-C (Mac) or ctrl-C (Windows) to copy it
5) email that identifier to iphone@ustream.tv so we can build a custom version for that phone using the iPhone SDK

Classics brings the joy of books to the iPhone

A new application called Classics has been released for the iPhone that brings some “realism” to reading books on the iPhone.

Classics features animated page turning and sounds, so you get the feeling of actually reading a book (a small thing, but important for the experience). Swiping your finger to left advances the page and going right turns the page back. The interface also includes a home button and a button to list the chapters of book as well.

and exit the application, a visual bookmark is placed on the page where you stopped, allowing you to easily pick up again at your leisure. This is one those distinctly luxury type apps that you don’t really need, but is a nice complimentary app if you can afford it.

It includes great classic books like Huckleberry Finn, Call of the Wild, Robinson Crusoe and more.

Classics is available from the App Store and will retail for $2.99, and is available for download immediately.

New running application uses iPhone 3G GPS

So far, most applications that make use of the iPhone’s location services, including the iPhone 3G’s GPS hardware, simply map the user’s location once then present context-sensitive information. A new app from FitnessKeeper, Inc., however, tracks the users’ locations live, using the information to deliver and store run data (distance, duration, pace, speed, etc.).

The application, dubbed RunKeeper, also allows users to store all of historical run data in a central web dashboard along with the corresponding route on a Google Map. Jason Jacobs of FitnessKeeper told iPhone Atlas: “We have bigger plans, but that is what we have bitten off for version one.”

A video demonstration of RunKeeper is embedded below:

A specific release date for RunKeeper is not available.