Stickam on Myspace Issues
Stickam players currently cannot be added to Myspace. We are looking into ways to resolve this issue. Hopefully soon.
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Stickam players currently cannot be added to Myspace. We are looking into ways to resolve this issue. Hopefully soon.
You can now switch the kind of player that shows up on your Profile page.
If you want to change the type of player go to your My control Panel on your My Page and click the "My Stickam Player" Button.
From here you can change which player shows up on your profile page. Click the 
button to switch your player.
You can send message to other users and check your Inbox from the My Messages section of your My Page.
You can also send messages to your friends from their .Profile Page.. Just click the 
button.
From the .Send A Message. page you can pick one of your friends in the "To" pulldown box. If you want there are formating options to change the color, style, font etc. (Not currently supported on Macs).
You can also record a video message to send your friends. Before sending your message click the 
button. (Video Messaging does not work with Safari on Mac)
This opens up a .Self Record. window.
Make sure the volume is turned up if you want to record sound. Click on the 
button to adjust your recording volume.
Hit the 
Button to begin recording your message.
After your done recording your message, hit the stop button on the recorder. You can preview your message submitting by going to the playback tab - 
. If you want to re-do your video message, hit the 
button and try again.
If you want the video message to be added to your stickam profile and player, Click the add to my gallery check box.
When your all done recording hit the 
button to attach your video message.
Once you are ready to mail your message you can preview before sending by hitting the 
button or erase your message by hitting the 
button. The 
button will of course mail out your message.
Check your .Inbox. to see your incoming and sent mail. You can also manage your Preferences, friend requests, and comments.
Messaging:
Want to send a message to your Stickam friends even if they are not online? You can now send text and video messages to your friends. Check out the My Messages section of your My Page.
New Players For Your Profile Page:
Looking for something new for your Stickam Profile? You can now choose what kind of Stickam player shows up on your Profile page.
Personal Tags:
Personal Tags are a new searchable field in your profile. Now you can find users with similar interests as you. Put whatever you want in your personal tags to identify yourself amongst the other Stickam users.
User List Update:
We added a new feature to the Live Video chat User list. You can now specify how often you want the user list to be updated. If you have a very crowded room you should choose to update the list every 10 seconds. This should help keep your chatroom running smoother and have less spamming.
Today marks the end of an exciting and eventful first week here at Stickam! Many thanks to my patient colleagues, and to those Stickam users who said hello or sent friend requests. Please feel free to chat if I’m Live. I’m happy to talk about travel (Japan and Hawaii are my favorite destinations), music (from electronic and rock to experimental sounds), and good, clean blood-pumping activities (dancing, skiing, running and eating insanely spicy foods)!
One of the week’s most entertaining events was a trip to Hollywood Boulevard to scope out talent for our Dance Off contest. Check out the brave and talented souls who proved they could shake it in denim, armor, sequins and fur! I almost had the guts to try it myself…
Real life: Dana Knight
Laughing matters: Workplace pranks are as close as your inbox
Quick. Take this medical terms quiz.
What is benign? Of course, it's what you be after you be eight. Bacteria? The back door to the cafeteria. Dilate? To live long.
Before you boo me or, worse yet, quit reading, I didn't make these up. I was duped the other day by an e-mail that disguised itself well enough to persuade me to open it. What I found was a forwarded e-mail joke titled "Redneck Medical Terms."
Now thar's a durn lousy trick to pull on some gal, but the sender was smart enough to trick me.
Forwarded jokes that land in my inbox usually don't have a chance. Any messages with subject lines like "Make $1 million" and "99% Spam" are deleted lickety-split.
It's not that I'm some workplace martyr refusing to use company equipment for a personal laugh. I just think the jokes are stale, completely lame and, for the most part, a waste of time.
Evidently, I'm cooler than I thought. According to the younger generation of workers, e-mail jokes are so totally yesterday. A new trend is sweeping the nation's workplaces -- forwarding the latest funny Web videos.
With the pop culture explosion of Web sites such as Stickam and YouTube and TV shows like WebJunk 20, a VH1 weekly countdown of the top 20 silly videos online, employees have found a new way to be cubicle comedians.
"Online employees are logging on in record numbers during working hours to fill their friends' and co-workers' inboxes with proof that they truly are the funniest person they know," according to Stickam, a Web site that allows users to place streaming videos on their blogs or Web sites that then can be downloaded to co-workers' inboxes.
Not only are workers surfing the Web for the funniest online videos they can find, but they are creating their own, says Aaron Novak, an executive project manager with Stickam.
"These aren't celebrities doing things. We've got a lot of random people dancing, doing weird performing in front of the camera," he says.
Some office workers play pranks, like dropping a net of balls on top of a co-worker's head, catching it on camera and then distributing it, Novak says.
On YouTube, a site with the tagline "Broadcast Yourself," users can upload and share videos worldwide. Among the featured videos, a guy named Noah who took a photo of himself every day for six years. The 2,190 days of photos play in 5 minutes and 45 seconds for people who care to take a look at Noah, a dark-haired, plain-looking fellow. Evidently people are. He had 545,000 views.
Another popular view: Fred Grzybowski doing some amazing tricks on a pogo stick. (Really. He had 153,019 views.)
So far, I've been forwarded just a few of these videos. Among them: kittens fighting over a tissue box and a guy slamming his office computer against the desk when it won't do what he wants.
Sure, it's mildly entertaining, but beware. Most company policies require that the computer be used for business only. A 2005 survey by the American Management Association found that 75 percent of employers monitor their workers' Web-site visits.
So view these forwarded videos at your own risk. Or better yet, delete them just like those stale jokes.
Exchanging film recordings is latest in entertainment
By Sarah Bradshaw
Poughkeepsie Journal
September 17, 2006
Nothing passes time better than watching a belly-baring man in a blonde wig perform a spoof of Shakira's music video "Hips Don't Lie."
Or someone demonstrate the Coke/Mentos explosive experiment.
These are a few of the Web videos viewed by thousands of workers each day that help move the hour hand on the clock a little closer to 5 p.m.
Stickam executive Aaron Novak believes Web videos are the lastest craze in e-mail forwards and entertainment Web browsing.
"Our site and other sites make it easy to e-mail a link to the video file, which gets passed around, and everyone starts watching," Novak said.
Videos are broadcast
Stickam allows users to link to videos on the site and add photos, video, music and live streaming video chat to a Web site or blog. It is just one of many sites, including YouTube, Google Video, mtvU and Yahoo! Video, that allow users to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with friends.
YouTube, which boasts about 20 million new users per month, explained the popularity of its site stems from more consumers using video devices, according to its Web site fact sheet. However, another contributing factor could be the number of workers who browse the Internet for entertainment while at work.
In 2003, the U.S. Department of Labor's statistics bureau found that 77 million people used a computer at work. In June, 61 percent of U.S. workers polled said their fellow employees spend an hour or less using company technology for personal use, according to a Harris Interactive survey for The Marlin Co.
"Honestly, everyone has their own downtime at work," Stickam user Jason Devlin said. The 24-year-old California-based graphic designer said he doesn't work nine hours with out taking a break.
"In one way or another, people are guilty of logging online for entertainment," he said. Devlin likes to post videos on his friends' MySpace sites and e-mail videos to co-workers because "that's how I keep in touch with them."
New form of interaction
Brett Phares, an interactive media professor at Marist College, said sharing Web videos allows people to interact with a large circle of friends without the added time constraints caused by face-to-face communication.
Renay Pettersen, a State University of New York at New Paltz graduate who works on Wall Street in Manhattan, said her job can get boring at times, but entertainment sites like ebaumsworld.com help her "get lost for hours" and the best part is "you view Web videos on a computer so it still looks like you're doing actual work," she said.
She also receives forwards from friends, including some video forwards, and those are her favorite, she said.
Devlin said chain e-mails aren't as popular as Web videos.
"Chain letters are impossible to believe. You don't think, 'Oh no, I'm going to have a horrible love life because I didn't send this to 10 people.' A video is instantly gratifying," he said.
Thomas G. Henry, a Dutchess Community College computer science/media arts student, said text is outdated.
"I don't communicate with text. I communicate solely with videos. Instead of leaving a comment, I leave them a music video from 1993," the 25-year-old said.
Henry also launched a Hudson Valley events vlog site, with Web videos that highlight local artists.
Henry said he has heard of companies blocking sites like MySpace to stop employees from goofing off during work hours. He wasn't sure if YouTube and other Web video sites would be the next sites blocked.
Unfortunalty due to a problem with the club in San Francisco the Tekdbz streaming event has been canceled. We will be planinig to do another Live event with them sometime again though. Till then why not dance to the Tekdbz produced track for our Stickam Dance Off Contest.
Starting today you can enter to win some great cash prizes for our first ever Stickam Dance Off Contest. TEKDBZ provided us with a great original song for you all to dance to. Now its up to you to put it to use and show off your best moves to the Stickam community.
Learn more on how to enter here but the easiest way is to use our recorder on the contest page and start dancing right away.
1st place gets $500
2nd place gets $300
3rd place gets $200
The contest runs from today to October 1st.
Today's Top Members:
We've changed the Top memebrs section on the front page to display the top members of the day. You can also view the entire list and the all time most popular members here: http://www.stickam.com/popularProfiles.do
Audio Genre Icons
All audio files now have a default icon based on Genre. If your didn't select a Genre in the past it will be listed as "Other."
I was interviewed recently by Reuters TV for a piece about competitors to YouTube. While I've done plenty of over the phone interviews for newspapers and magazines, this was the first on camera interview. Hopefully I don't come off too bad. :)
The Video begins after the first commercial.
Click here to watch
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