Stickam
The folks at Stickam currently have a lot going for themselves: As widely reported, including in the LA Times, this portal managed to identify two phenomena of recent months and merge them into one: The users’ urge to join and be active in online communities, and the increasingly common ability to communicate through web cameras, as pioneered through skype and i-Chat.
With a very user-friendly set-up, Stickam provides its members with a platform to engage in multi-way videoconferencing with as many friends your system can process, theoretically unlimited. Everyone visiting you online finds an open channel to interact with you and each other.
Already being hyped as yet another ‘the next MySpace,’ all this open access does come at a price: A lot of exhibitionistic dating behavior has begun to leak over from MySpace and indiscreet users have taped conversations and posted these recordings on other video sites like YouTube. Since you can leave your channel open 24/7, some people get addicted to the prospect of being able to connect to a universe of users that’s always out there, day and night.
For now, up-and-coming bands like Story Told and radio dj’s are the first to use Stickam commercially—being available on video in a branded chat room during a show and connecting to the fan-base at all hours is a temptation few bands trying to make it can resist.
Technorati Tags: Stickam, Story Told
Posted on February 03, 2007 in Community | Permalink
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Thomas Rigler is a filmmaker producing and developing programming for television and new media in the U.S. and Europe. He executive produced the launch of “Vine@eonline” and consults on new media content and strategy for non-profits, interactive agencies and TV-networks. Thomas serves as a board member for the International Documentary Association in Los Angeles.
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