“It enables various ways for friends and family to connect,” he said.

The app allows users to place live video calls with two-way chat. In addition, the app has a social element since it lets users instantly capture videos and share them on sites such as Facebook. It also includes a live feed so that users can see what videos their friends have been posting.

Another aspect of Qik is that it leverages cloud computing for storage and processing. Video support for mobile devices has long been a challenge since video tends to drain batteries. To overcome this challenge, Qik puts the hard processing on servers, which allows the cloud to become a “lifeline” that prevents battery issues.

According to Roy, Qik’s goal has always been to enable video interactivity through mobile devices. Qik believes it has achieved this goal in its mobile video solution.

While the paid version of the app is currently available in the App Store, the free version is still pending.

In an interview with Abby Johnson, Pixable’s Inaki Berenguer and Andres Blank discussed a study that discovered certain patterns.  Women share twice as many photos on Facebook as men, for example, and also appear in twice as many photos.

Then here’s a different, and perhaps less intuitive, fact: according to Berenguer and Blank, older people share almost as many photos as younger people.

Finally – and we’re perhaps back into more obvious territory here – guys like to look at photos of girls they don’t know, while girls like to look at photos of girls they do know.

Anyway, as people continue to use Facebook more and more, and picture-taking mobile devices become better and more common (whether we’re talking about smartphones, iPads, or whatever), the cofounders of Pixable predicted that photo overload could become an issue.

Indeed, the pair believe that finding a way of organizing pictures will be key, or else people will become overwhelmed by pictures of friends, favorite celebrities, and popular bands.