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March 26, 2006
By Allan Hoffman
"Video-sharing sites seem to appear as quickly as entrepreneurs can raise a few bucks and come up with a catchy name. The sites include ClipShack, Google Video, Grouper, Metacafe, Revver, Sharkle, Streamload, Stickam, TagWorld, Vimeo, vMix and YouTube, among others. " Read more
Going to your preferences within your Live Chat window, you can find a new privacy setting. If you uncheck the "Allow non member chat," users who are not logged in cannot chat with you from within your embedded player and cannot get to your enlarged chat without logging in. This should help if you don't want to deal with random non-members popping in and sending messages.
This is one in a series of enhanced privacy settings we will be implementing soon.
"I fell in love with this site and have been there everyday since it went live on February 15th. What is really wild is that if you have a Webcam, you get on the video chat, or you can use Stickam to get the code to stick your Web cam on your Web page. This is uber cool. " Read more
"This tool appears to contain minimal functionality when seen on a Web site, but don't let its small size fool you - there is a lot that it can do. First of all, you can use the player to do a live broadcast. " Read more
"Ever since I discovered Stickam I’ve been “hanging out” there, every day. Not just for a few hours, here and there, but all day (and all night). I’ve never been the type of person to visit chat rooms, but for some reason, the ones there have sucked me and, and aren’t letting go." Read more
Stickam: My First Impressions
- www.coolmel.com
"There are lots of things I like about the service. First, it is Flash-based. All my videos were converted accordingly so users don't have to worry about video driver compatibility and all that crap. " Read more
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- The Bob Gentry Journal
"I really like all the cool features. If you come on the blog and you see live video, you’ll be able to start a live chat.. I really need to mess with the settings more....Anyway…This STICKAM thing seems pretty NEATO. " Read more
A Community of One
- Release 1.0
"Suppose you have a Stickam module on MySpace and on your eBay auctions and on your blog. When somebody wants to chat with you, they don't have to open up a new application; they can do it all from the Web page they're on. And as long as you have your Stickam control windows open on your PC or phone, you can communicate with everybody out there, no matter what site they are finding you on.0’s and some kid videos. This looks pretty coolio. " Read more
Stickam - Video/Clientless VoIP - FREE
- Beyond the Bleeding Edge
" This service is really quite amazing. It is using the latest and greatest flash tricks to provide a few very compelling and usefull features. Among the most interesting is a live webcam feed with sound ! to my blog. " Read more
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-e-Clippings
"I'm interested in this one because it adds some interesting content-sharing capabilities to an easy-to-use package. " Read more
"Stickam" offers all in one media player
- Media Evolution
"If you have a blog or web site, you should have Stickam" Read more
"Stickam" offers all in one media player
By Steve Wolkoff (A product manager at Adobe)
"Up until reading this page, I had no idea that Stickam used FMS. This is just another great example of how developers can use FMS and Flash to rapidly develop innovative applications." Read more
Niche Networking by the Numbers
28 FEB 2006
By Alex Halperin
"Cyberspace is full of community sites to help you plan a trip, get a job, or make a friend. Here's a rundown" Read more
Seven sites worth repeating even if we're not
19 FEB 2006
Erika D. Smith
"Is your blog ugly? Well, Stickam.com has tools for a makeover. A free account will let you add live video to almost any modifiable Web page, like on MySpace. " Read more
Free video service for blogs and Web sites
18 FEB 2006
Mike Wendland (Writer of Detroit Free Press)
"Stickam also lets users do two-way live video conferencing with up to 12 people at once from anywhere in the world. " Read his blog
Photo-Sharing Site Stickam Includes eBay Component
15 FEB 2006
By Ina Steiner
"Consumers can use Stickam to add live videoconferencing to their eBay auctions, websites, blogs and vlogs (video blogs) without having to download or install any software on their computer." Read more
Stickam gives free boost for bloggers
13 FEB 2006
By Chris Nuttall
"The "Web 2.0" trend of creating powerful applications within the browser will receive a multimedia boost today from Stickam, a free offering that adds live streaming video to web pages and blogs." Read more
Stickam adds multimedia content to your Web site
13 FEB 2006
By Peter Cohen
"Users are given a free account with 500MB of storage capacity — files can be up to 100MB for videos or 5MB for
images." Read more
In Brief: Stickam free media player set to launch
February 10, 2006
By InfoWorld staff
"Stickam works with a wide range of popular Webcams. Video can be played on any OS including Linux (Overview, Articles, Company), Windows, and Mac and can be viewed by site visitors whether they have a Stickam player or not." Read more
Free Tool Broadens Bloggers' Horizons
25 JAN 2006
By K.C. Jones
"A Los Angeles company wants to know, "Where would you stick it?" That is the tag line for a free multimedia tool that enables online sharing of photos, videos, and music files. " Read more
Our Who's live function has been changed over to a Who's Online list that includes users logged in, users Live, and users in a chatroom. Just select between the 3 to view the users. Its pretty cool to browse through some user's profiles who don't usually go live but login to upload media.
Heres a blog post from http://www.texasgigs.com/ about Stickam at SXSW. They seemed to like our booth a lot amongst the other SXSW Interactive participants.
Read the post here: Stickam: A killer app for band promotion (and much more)
Heres our SXSW Stickam player where you can check out some pictures and video from the conference show floor and after hours on 6th street. As you can see in the video uploaded, the streets were packed. It was too much fun and I got to see some great shows every night. We met so many cool people at the convention during the day and gave so much flyers during the night it all seems like a blur. Stickam also seemed to have some of the best swag giveaways at the show with our webcams, t-shirts, and the surprisingly popular tissues. All in all it was a great show and I hope we will return next year, maybe with some couches set up for show goers. A real life Stickam Lounge chatroom maybe?
After noticing some people having trouble setting up their webcam for Stickam I thought I'd make a quick help guide. If your webcam has the proper driver and is working with other applications but not on the Stickam site, it may have to do with your Flash settings being set wrong.
The first step is to right click (or ctrl click for macs) any flash element on the Stickam page. Its easiest to just right click where your video should show up in your Go Live page. You should see a window like the one pictured above. Select Settings.
This brings up the Flash Settings window for your browser. First off be sure to allow stickam to access your camera and mic and check the remember box.
Next select the microphone tab and choose your mic input from the pull down menu.
Now select the web cam tab and choose your camera input from the pull down menu. (If you have a built in iSight on a Mac - the input should be USB Class Video)
And that should do it. If for some reason your camera is not showing up in the pull down menu you may not have the driver properly installed or you may need to try a different browser.
We've finally got in our Stickam t-shirts for staff and Street team give aways. Special thanks to Hiro and Mayumi for modeling the new shirts.
Stickam will be attending this years SXSW, South By Southwest, conference/festival. SXSW is a yearly conference showcasing Music, film, interactive media in Austin Texas. Keep an eye on our Stickam SXSW profile for live streaming from the show floor and videos and photos of the conference starting this weekend!
We've got a new feature for your profile: RSS feeds! To add a feed simply click the "EDIT RSS" button below your profile photo on your My Page. If your looking for a feed address to start out with try using this blogs feed: http://webmaster.stickam.com/atom.xml
You can check out my profile here for an example.
For more info on RSS click here.
Stickam is broadcasting live over the internet the 95.5 KLOS, Mark and Brian event of 2 Strangers and a Wedding.
Click on the 2 Strangers and a Wedding Banner to watch the video.
This week we have added some new features for our chatrooms. Any user in the chatroom can now choose to "ignore" another user. "Ignore" will stop all audio, video, and text chat from being seen by the user. To do this, simply click the user name you wish to ignore and select the "Ignore" option. You can also "Un-ignore" that person to bring back all their chats, video, and audio. This will only affect the user for that session so if they log-out and return you would have to re-ignore them. For a more permanent solution we will be making a "block" function soon.
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