How Thwapr pictures the future of mobile video

While most mobile video solutions have focused on simplifying users' efforts to post their clips to the web, Thwapr is a free service developed to facilitate video and photo sharing across virtually any mobile phone, regardless of manufacturer or network. Thwapr CTO Eric Hoffert previously worked at Apple, where he led development of the first real-time software video algorithm for the QuickTime standard; he talks to FierceDeveloper about his Apple tenure, the challenges limiting mobile video sharing and the importance of ubiquity.