You can now logout of your chatroom but keep the room open and not kick out users in your room.

To do this click the logout button in the upper right of your Host chat window.

You will get a popup window that asks if you would like to keep your room open. If you click yes you will disconnect from the room but all users in the room will remain. They can text chat and appear on video as usual.

If you go live again within 2 minutes or so, the users in your room will get this message and rejoin your room again.

Heres a quick video demo, courtesy of Streaming the Cube:

Posted by newave at 8:36 AM | Permalink

Stickam Has added an additional caption style to your Live Chat room.

To activate go to your settings menu and choose the Captions Option.

Check the "Use newscrawl style captions" box.

Now click the Caption button below the send button in your chat.

This opens up the Caption Dialog box. FIll out a title and description.

Your New Caption will display at the bottom of your web cam screen.

Posted by newave at 12:34 PM | Permalink

Live description allows you to enter a description for your live chat that will appear on your profile and the top page player if you are featured. To enter a Live description press the Blue "Show Live Description" button in your Live Chat window.

This Opens The Live Description dialog box where you can input a 100 character limit text. Hit the submit button and the LIve description is automatically updated.

Posted by newave at 3:13 PM | Permalink

A new Stickam Player design has been added. New features with this player allow you to see active chats on the player itself and access the embed code from the menu.

When your Live chat privacy is set to everyone, you can view active chats on screen. To hide this, hit the X button.

Use the to reopen the chat.

To access media and get the embed code for this player press the button.

will give you the players embed code to add it to your website or blog.

Posted by newave at 1:40 PM | Permalink

Add scrolling text captions to your Live Chats with a click of a button. Simply Type in your message and hit the Caption button to display your message over your webcam feed. Longer messages automatically scroll.

Posted by newave at 9:50 AM | Permalink

Live Invite allow you to invite other users to a One to One chat. One to One chat allows you to have a private video chatroom between two people.

When you first log in to Stickam you will see your Live Invite Status window.
From here you will see all live invites sent and received.

If you don't want to receive any invites, you can choose OFF and close the window. If you ever want the window to return you can by going to your Edit Preferences page and clicking the Open popup link.

You can also get to your Live Invite settings from your Edit Preferences page or by clicking the settings icon - - on your Live Invite Status window.

Sending a Live Invite

Click the Live Invite Icon and type a message. You can invite any user who is logged into Stickam.

Your Live Invite Status window will popup if you do not already have it open.

If the the person you invited accepts, the one to one chat window will popup.

Receiving a Live Invite

If you have Live Invitations set to On you will see a new Live Invite in either the popup window or if that is closed in the Notification Box above the nav bar. Clicking on it will launch the popup.

From here you can choose to:
Accept the invite and be launched into a One to One chat
or
Deny the invite and stop receiving further invites from that user for 5 minutes
or
Ignore and stop receiving invites form that user permanently.

To take someone off your ignore list click the settings icon - - on the Live Invite Status popup or in your Live Invite settings found on your Edit Preferences page.

Posted by newave at 12:06 PM | Permalink

This tutorial shows you how to use Audio Hijack Pro (Mac OSX only) as a virtual mixing board to stream audio from multiple inputs on Stickam. Its useful for users who want to add Skype calls to their webcasts or do a voice over while streaming music.

-First download and install Audio hijack pro and Soundflower. (Mac OSX only)

Audio Hijack Pro:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/download.php

Soundflower:
http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

-Launch Audio Hijack pro

-Click the Plus button to add a new component

-Choose audio Device for the Source Type.
-Select your input device. For this demo I'm using my built in mic but you could use Line In for an external microphone.

-Click the Effects tab.
-Click one of the empty boxes too add an effect.

-Choose 4FX Effect - Application Mixer from the menu.

-This will bring up a Application Mixer pop-up window.

-From here select which application you want to stream audio from. For example you could use Skype to take calls online or itunes to stream audio. You may need to adjust the crossfade later on to balance the application and microphone audio.

-Click another one of the empty boxes too add an additional effect.
-Choose 4FX Effect - Auxiliary Device Output from the menu.

-This will bring up a Auxiliary Device Output pop-up window.

-Choose Soundflower (2ch) from the menu.

-Now Click Hijack to begin taking audio from your microphone/application source. (You will need to relaunch Skype, etc if it is already running to Hijack its audio.)

-Go Live on Stickam.

-Ctrl Click or right click the video screen to get to your flash settings.
-Choose the audio tab and select SoundFlower (2ch) as your microphone input.

You will now be able to Stream audio from your mic and a second application at the same time.

Posted by newave at 3:32 PM | Permalink

Available now in all public chat rooms, One to one chat allows you to have a private video chatroom between two people.

To start a One to One chat, click a user's name on the user list and click the Invite to One To One Chat option. You cannot invite Mods or Admins to a One To One chat, they must invite you.

This will being up an invite message on their screen. If the user rejects your invitation, future invitations will be ignored as long as you are in the chatroom.

If the user accepts your invite you will get this screen. Click the launch button to begin your One To One chat.

In the upper left corner are your 3 control options.

- The Settings button opens up your flash settings, where you can select and adjust your webcam and audio.

- The Chat button Brings up a text chat screen. If you close the window and receive a new message, the icon turns orange.

- The Fullscreen button enlarges the One To One screen to fill your window.

Text chat cannot be used in fullscreen mode, you can read messages but not type. To be able to use text chat with an enlarged screen, maximize your browser window or, click and drag the right hand corner of the screen.

Posted by newave at 10:38 AM | Permalink

The new info button on all host chats displays information on the number of people entering your room.

It opens a window that shows the total number of users who have entered your room or watched you since going live as well as the entire amount of users who are in the room or watching you.

Posted by newave at 2:10 PM | Permalink

A beta of our Live scheduling Calendar has been released for Stickam Entertainers.

You can find it linked on your My Page here.

From here you can select multiple dates for the next two months to schedule times for your Live shows.

Scheduled Live events appear at the bottom of the page. Here you can also delete events.

Scheduled events appear on your Profile page below your media.

In the future Stickam will use scheduled events to help determine who shows up on the front page as well as making a notification system for your friends.

Posted by newave at 9:20 AM | Permalink

By default your Friends list on the Mypage and Profile page displays any Live users on your Stickam Friends List. You can now add up to 12 friends you pick to be displayed as Featured Friends.

To Start got to the Featured Friends link on your My Page.

This takes you to your Featured Friends page.

From here you can browse and add anyone on your Friends List. Just click the button.

Once you've added up to 12 friends you can drag and drop in the order you want them to appear on your profile.

You can remove friends from the list by clicking the button.

You can also rename your Featured Friends list to anything you want.

When your done ordering and renaming your list click the button.

If you want the old style friend list to return, simply remove all the friends from your Featured list.

Posted by newave at 4:09 PM | Permalink

Update: New Mod Icons added and Sub-mods will now keep their status after leaving the room.

We have added moderation to user created chat rooms. You must create a chatroom to be its moderator.

Once you enter a public chatroom you have created you will have a Stickam mod logo next to your name, this signifies you are the main chatroom moderator. You can now kick any users out of your chatroom if you wish.

You can also choose another user in your room as a sub-moderator. Just select the user's name from the user-list and choose "Make Moderator."

Sub-mods will have a green Stickam Mod logo next to there name on the user list. They too can kick anyone out of the room, except for other moderators.

If the main moderator wants to remove moderation status from a sub-mod they can select their name from the user list and choose "Unmake Moderator".

Posted by newave at 10:27 AM | Permalink

The Video Mixer is a new feature for host chatrooms. It allows you to broadcast any videos uploaded to your stickam account or added to your playlist in your chatroom for all viewers to see. You can now be your own VJ or watch your favorite video simultaneously with all your friends in your stickam chatroom.

You'll notice the new Mixer button added to the host chat control bar.

Clicking on brings up the Video Mixer window.

From here you can see any videos added to your Stickam playlist in the Video Mixer pulldown.

After choosing a video, click the Broadcast button to play back the video to all users watching your Stickam player. The video will continuously loop. You can jump to another video by selecting another from the pulldown list.

To change back to your webcam, click the Broadcast button again.

If you want your mic to be heard over the video, click the Voiceover check box before clicking the Broadcast Button. Real time directors commentary anyone?

Posted by newave at 7:30 AM | Permalink

In your Videochat Settings window of the host chat you can now choose multiple quality settings for your Live Stream. If you have an older machine or a slow internet connection you can change your video quality settings to medium or low. You can also test your connection speed and get a recomendation on which quality settign to use.

Posted by newave at 3:48 PM | Permalink

Push To Talk is a new method to voice chat in your personal Host Chatroom.

When its set you and guests in your room push the Talk button on there video window to activate the mic.

To turn on this feature go to your chat settings -

Go to the Chat section of the Videochat settings.

Check the "Enable Push To Talk" box at the bottom of the page.

Posted by newave at 2:58 PM | Permalink

When going live, Stickam can also be used to stream any audio coming from your computers speakers instead of your mic. This allows you to stream audio from any source on your PC or Mac.

PC Windows Method:

-Begin by playing some audio on your PC at your normal volume. This will help set up the input volume levels later.

-Right Click the volume control in your menu bar.
-Choose, Adjust Audio Properties.

-In the "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties", Click the Audio tab.
-Make sure Sound Playback Default device and Sound Recording default device are the same.
-Click the Volume button under the "Sound Recording" section.

-Select "Stereo Mix" as your input.
-Lower the input volume at first so your audio input isn't too loud.

-Go Live.

-Right click any flash element on the Stickam page. Its easiest to just right click where your video should shows up.
-Select Settings.

-Select the microphone tab.
-Choose your mic input from the pull down menu. This should be the same mic input you chose in the "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties" window.

-Adjust the volume so your input isn't too loud.
-Close the "Flash Payer Settings" window.

-Adjust the volume slider by your video screen so you mic volume is loud enough.
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Mac OSX Method:

-Download and install Soundflower.
http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower

-Go to Your System Preferences.
-Choose Sound.

-Go to the Output Tab.
-Choose Soundflower (2ch).

-Go Live.

-CTRL click any flash element on the Stickam page. Its easiest to just right click where your video should shows up.
-Select Settings.

-Select the microphone tab.
-Choose Soundflower (2ch) from the pull down menu.

-Adjust the volume so your input isn't too loud.
-Close the "Flash Payer Settings" window.

-Adjust the volume slider by your video screen so you mic volume is loud enough.

Posted by newave at 1:16 PM | Permalink

Here is a quick video How To on setting up your Video Chat Privacy settings.

Posted by webmaster at 4:59 PM | Permalink

Stickam has just launched its new Postings site. Setting up to start creating your own Live Postings is fast and simple process.

To Start if you haven't signed up for a Stickam account register here or if you are already a Stickam member you can login here.

Click Create a Post and choose a category to start a new Live Posting.

Fill out a Title, Compensation, Location, Etc. for your post.

Check the "Post as Anonymous" box if you don't want the post to show up under your name.

You can Upload up to 5 Images for each post.

When you are ready to publish your post click the "Preview Posting" Button

If you want to re-edit the post click the "Modify Post" button. Other wise just click the "Publish this Post" button.

After Publlishing, If you want to make your Posting Live. Click the Go Live link.

You can View, Edit, or Go Live with any post from your My Page.

Posted by webmaster at 6:29 PM | Permalink

We have just added the ability to add your YouTube videos RSS to your profile page.

Get a list of the different RSS feeds for YouTube here.

If you wanted to display your own videos on your profile simply use this model - http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username here]/videos.rss

For this How To I'll use my Stickam YouTube account which looks like: http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/stickam/videos.rss

I could also use a tag like: http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/stickam.rss

To edit your RSS feed for your profile go to your My Page and click the Edit RSS Button in your My Control Panel.

Enter a name and the URL for the RSS feed. For now we only support YouTube RSS on the Profile so keep the Profile radio button selected. Hit submit and now your YouTube videos will appear listed on your profile.

There are still some bugs where some thumbnails dont show up but we are working on it.

We currently support Flickr RSS feeds as well and those can be added to your player. Hopefully we will add the ability to display your YouTube videos within the player soon.

Posted by webmaster at 9:27 AM | Permalink

Webcam not working on Stickam? Watch this quick video howto on setting up your flash settings.

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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.

Posted by webmaster at 4:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

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.

Posted by webmaster at 2:28 PM | Permalink

You can now add photo RSS feeds from Flickr and other sites to your stickam player. This allows you to automatically display new photos uploaded to your flickr account directly on your stickam player. To add new Feeds to your player, simply go to your Edit RSS link on your My page. Add the RSS name and URL and check the "Add this RSS to Player."

To find the RSS link look for the Feed logo on your flickr page:

Posted by webmaster at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

We've gotten some questions on how Stickam has been broadcasting events like Mayday live from the street. Its fairly easy if you have the right equipment. Heres what you'll need:

1 - A laptop with a standard PC card slot.

2 - A wireless broadband card from Verizon or Sprint like this:

3 - Webcam or DV cam.

4 - Backpack or messenger bag to carry your laptop in.

Once you have your Wireless card and web cam all set up with your laptop just login to Stickam and go live. Put your laptop in a backpack and your camera pointed at something interesting and there yah go, instant live streaming from anywhere!

Posted by webmaster at 3:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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.

Posted by webmaster at 2:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)