February Stickam Poll
Vote on your favorite Live Event. If you did not see all the events, check the recorded footage from the links below!
Vote on your favorite Live Event. If you did not see all the events, check the recorded footage from the links below!
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
About the author
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.
http://www.broadbandjungleblog.com/2007/02/stickam.html
Stickam was included in an article on PC Magazine’s online site, PCMag.com. It’s a great mention about how audio content is gaining traction on social-networking sites.
Read the article here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2037009,00.asp
Stickam was recently included in a large piece on the popularity of Web videos in the Ottawa Citizen.
Read it here: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/technology/story.html?id=d5c256a6-5b26-4beb-8304-79a9939b1fdd
Stickam was included in a great article in the Oakland Tribune on the recent Google / YouTube acquisition.
Read it here: http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_4573414
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.
Continue reading "Laughing matters: Workplace pranks are as close as your inbox" »
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.
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
Stickam gets mentioned in the latest Rolling Stone Magazine "Beyond YouTube" by Tom Samiljan
click on read more to see the article
Sunday, July 30, 2006
By Stuart Derdeyn
In newspaper land the Net thingy -- "it's out there" -- is still a bit of a major disconnect. As if TV alone weren't already a thorn in our sides, now along comes even more content, much of it grossly written and stunningly inaccurate, to foul up the works. "Read Full Article"
Stickam is included in Paul La Monica's article this morning about online video.
July 24 2006
By Paul R. La Monica
"Another relatively new site, Stickam, is hoping to make a name for itself by offering live online video streams. The site is owned by Advanced Video Communications, a privately held firm that focuses on video conferencing for corporations." Read full article
By Frank Ahrens
June 25, 2006
"Stickam ("Broadcast yourself live!") is a media player that sort of takes the YouTube model and runs with it. Imagine live Web cams broadcasting 60,000 egos. Hey, here's a shirtless mook striking a pose in his bedroom! Here's someone playing ping-pong! Okay!" Read full article
By Chris Lee
April 30, 2006
IT was one of those Information Age ideas that probably seemed so simple on paper: take one part YouTube.com, a streaming video website; add another part iChat video web conferencing technology, throw in free bandwidth and hundreds of megabytes of free storage and, voilà! — Stickam.com, the Internet's latest social networking website/video communications player.
April 25 2006
By Robin Good
"Completely web-based, this new, Flash-powered web application, appears to have all the right characteristics for getting lots of exposure and rapid adoption by bloggers, small and medium-sized online publishers of all kinds." Read full article
The media player called a 'social tool'
April 23, 2006
By ERIK HOGSTROM
An eBay seller could discuss the finer points of an item while holding it aloft for potential buyers to view.
A singer could create music videos promoting compact discs available on a band blog.
A grandmother could view her grandchild's birthday party in progress from across the country.
By Scott Galupo
April 14, 2006
Everyone knows the Web is a marvelous device for sharing -- or, if you prefer, stealing -- music. Until recently, though, it has been primarily an outlet for the mass delivery -- licit and illicit -- of music. Now it may be morphing into something new -- a vehicle for the discovery, exposure and popular winnowing of new musical talent. "Read More"
March 14, 2006
By Stacy Reed
"This fun (and completely free) service is geared toward the masses of MySpace, LiveJournal and Xanga bloggers, but it could also be utilized by companies or long-distance friends and family looking for a free video conferencing medium." Read Fill Article
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
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
Stickam has been named best new offering in the Video Storage, Sharing, and Search catagory by the SOA Web Services Journal. Check out the article here.
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