Join us this Sunday night , June 21, for live coverage from the Los Angeles premiere of We Live In Public.  The Q&A starts at 8:45 PM PT.

We Live In Public is the story of the Internet’s revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of internet pioneer and visionary Josh Harris. As far back as the early 90s, Harris predicted a future dominated by life online and created the companies that were direct predecessors to MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. The tale turns ugly when his underground NYC bunker housing dozens of permanent “citizens” and outfitted with hundreds of surveillance cameras is busted by FEMA as a millennial cult — Harris decides to take the experiment a step further and in doing so becomes a media casualty.

Fimmaker Ondi Timoner won the Grand Jury Prize for the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival (her second win).  She will be onhand for the Q&A along with Josh Harris and castmember Jason Calacanis, the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com.

To view the trailer, please visit http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/trailer/

www.stickam.com/weliveinpublic

What started as popular videos on YouTube have since catapulted ESMEE DENTERS to musical stardom having since been signed to Justin Timberlake’s Tennman Records.  With the release of her album, Outta Here, and an upcoming European tour with R&B pop star Ne-Yo, Esmee’s meteroic rise has no plans in slowing down.  Taken from Esmee’s official bio:

It may have been her YouTube popularity that led [Justin[Timberlake to seek out Esmée six months after her videos began to appear online, but it was her silky, soulful voice, natural charisma, and songwriting talent that sold him on signing her to his label, executive producing and co-producing the majority of her debut album. Timberlake, Chairman/CEO of Tennman Records says, “One of the reasons I started my label was to be able to discover and mentor new talent, and it’s been a great experience guiding Esmée’s development. I’ve been producing her in the studio and working with some other great collaborators on her album, and I’ve seen her writing go to another level. Some people have it and some people don’t - but this girl’s the real deal!” In the summer of 2007, Justin and Esmée began to write songs together. “Sometimes I would come up with a title and he would suggest a melody,” Esmée says, “or I would come up with a melody and he’d suggest some lyrics. There were no rules.” Timberlake also lined up an impressive list of noted songwriters and producers to collaborate with him and Esmée, such as Polow Da Don (Usher, Ciara), Stargate (Rihanna, Ne-Yo), OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder (Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield), and Toby Gad (Beyoncé, Fergie).

Join ESMEE DENTERS today at 12:30 PM PDT for a live fanchat!

http://stickam.com/esmeedentersmusic

Hailing from Virginia Beach, DAYS DIFFERENCE is comprised of brothers Jeremy (vocals, keyboard) and Jonathan Smith (drums) and brothers Jeremiah (guitar) and Micah Ricks (bass) and makes their Stickam debut today with a live fanchat from the road at 3 PM PDT!  You can join DAYS DIFFERENCE every Thursday at 1 PM PDT all summer!!!

Taken from their official bio:

Fully committed to giving the band a shot by May of 2006, Days Difference spent several years honing their propulsive pop sound by opening for artists such as Paramore, Lifehouse, Third Eye Blind, Jack’s Mannequin, and Yellowcard when those artists came through Virginia Beach. In 2007, they released an independent album, Numbers, then embarked on a nationwide tour, in which everything that could have gone wrong did: a tire on their trailer fell off, a show was canceled when the promoter got hit by a car, Jonathan got a concussion playing soccer, Micah broke his collarbone playing football, and they received a $500 parking ticket to top it all off. “I never really believed the whole ‘earn your keep’ thing, but we’ve really paid our dues,” Jeremy says.

http://stickam.com/daysdifference

KROQ’s Kevin & Bean Show returns with another amazing live installment in their breakfast concert series.  Incubus will be playing a full live set as well as sitting down for an interview.

It all happens Tuesday morning, 6/10, starting at 5:30 AM PST (that’s 8:30 AM EST).  Event is powered by StreamAPI.  Catch it live at www.kroq.com.

www.stickam.com/kroq

You can now signup and login to Stickam using the Facebook Connect service.

Facebook Connect imports you profile picture, Birthday, Gender, and email automatically when you sign up to Stickam. It also sends status updates to your Facebook news feed automatically.

Go to the Facebook Settings page to activate.

You can also now invite your Facebook friends to Stickam through facebook connect.

Citing the latest Nielsen figures, Centinople reports that Stickam.com had 19.6 million streams for the month of April.  This figure places Stickam behind only Myspace and Facebook for delivery of video streams for the month.   Thank you everybody

http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=603&doc_id=177495

Your inner teen can rejoice! Blink182 has reunited and will reveal their summer tour plans this Monday, May 18th at 8 AM Pacific on KROQ’s Kevin and Bean Show. Join Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker together again; we hear they’ve got some pretty exciting news.  Watch it LIVE at KROQ.com or stickam.com/kroq, powered by StreamAPI.

StreamAPI enables organizations to affordably and easily integrate live video 
into any Web-based product or service

Los Angeles, CA – May 6, 2009 – Stickam.com, the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming, today launched its white label offering, StreamAPI, enabling companies to easily and affordably add live video streaming capabilities to their Web sites and online applications.StreamAPI utilizes the same reliable platform that powers live streaming for Stickam.com’s millions of members. It makes live streaming simple for any Web developer as it does not require Flash ActionScript programming knowledge. StreamAPI is compatible with any server-side programming language, including Java, .NET/C#/ASP, PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby. As a completely customizable solution, StreamAPI can be set up in hours and used by:

-          blogs and forums to facilitate community chat
-          businesses to enhance internal and external communications
-          educational institutions to add live video to online classes
-          event organizers to increase attendance and reach
-          social networks and dating sites to allow members to interact face-to-face
-          Web 2.0 companies to enhance product offerings, including Facebook and OpenSocial applications 

Stickam.com’s StreamAPI offers affordable, pay-as-you-go pricing, which is a flat rate of $0.45 per Gigabyte (approximately $0.05 per viewer hour at 256 Kbit/s) – a fraction of the cost of similar services. It supports high-definition, widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) streams and includes a theme manager to help design the look and feel of live streaming applications for branding purposes with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. StreamAPI customers will also have access to analytics, including bandwidth usage, traffic sources and number of visitors broken down by time period for each live session.

“Organizations need to embrace real-time, interactive communication across all levels of their business to meet customer and employee demands,” said Steven Fruchter, Stickam.com CEO. “We are thrilled to make live streaming possible for anyone who wants to take advantage of this powerful technology. StreamAPI is another step towards our goal of being the premier service provider for all live video on the Internet.”

For example, MTV recently utilized StreamAPI to successfully support live events and programs incorporating MTV branding into a customized live streaming player.StreamAPI is available immediately and includes customer support via a Web-based ticketing system. Premium support is also offered for a fee and includes phone assistance and guaranteed response times.

To learn more or sign up for StreamAPI, please visit streamapi.com.

About Stickam.com
Stickam.com is the pioneer of live streaming video and the largest live community on the Internet. It delivers live interactive streaming to any desktop, laptop or any Java-enabled mobile device, to over three million registered users. Stickam.com’s StreamAPI allows anyone to integrate all of Stickam.com’s live video streaming services into Web sites and applications. Stickam.com also offers PayPerLive.com, a live video streaming platform for professionals. For more information, please visit www.stickam.com.

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Annual Web Series Contest to Showcase and Honor Top Online Video Content 

LOS ANGELES – May 6, 2009 – The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has announced its second annual Next TV Competition leading up to the association’s annual LATVFest in July where the winners will be honored.

Facilitated by Stickam.com, the pioneer of live streaming video and the largest live community on the Internet, the contest seeks to discover the best pilot for a new Web series or best episode from an existing Internet show in seven categories: branded entertainment, comedy, documentary / news, drama, lifestyle / do-it-yourself, long form (sponsored by YouTube) and reality / unscripted. Prizes include a six-month mentorship with a YouTube / Google Development Executive and Producer and the opportunity to co-produce a six-episode Web series on what’s happening in television and new media, which will play on the NATPE Web site, Stickam.com, NATPE’s YouTube Channel and other video sharing outlets.

Contestants can register and upload their submissions at www.stickam.com/natpenexttv by Friday, May 15, 2009. Finalists will be selected by the public through ‘American Idol’-style live Internet shows with live voting on Stickam.com, in addition to a panel of esteemed judges. Once the competition is narrowed down to the finalists, winners will be determined in another live voting show on Stickam.com. NATPE will announce the category champions and one overall winner at a cocktail reception during LATVFest on Thursday, July 9, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

 “We are pleased to join forces with industry-pioneer Stickam.com to add a live component to our annual Next TV Competition,” said Rick Feldman, NATPE president and CEO. “Online video has experienced explosive growth over the past year. We anticipate this year’s entries will be top-notch, and are looking forward to showcasing them on Stickam.com.”

 “We are excited to work with NATPE and YouTube to seek out the best content producers the world has to offer and utilize live audience participation to power the voting process,” said Steven Fruchter, CEO of Stickam.com. “As the first site dedicated to live interactive video streaming, we recognized early on that the Internet is where television’s future lies.”

Sponsors by category include YouTube for Long Form; Moderati for Comedy; and E! Entertainment Television for Unscripted/Reality. Additional sponsors will be announced shortly.

Next TV Competition judges include Steve Amato, Partner, Omelet; Brian Seth Hurst, Principal, The Opportunity Management Company; Nathan Kitada, Director, 5432 Films (past NATPE Diversity Fellow and winner of Diversity Fellow Award from Lippin Family Trust); Diane Robina, President, Emerging Networks, Comcast; Jon Vlassopulos, CEO/General Manager, Moderati; Mike Wallen, VP, FOX Mobile Studios; and Daisy Whitney, host of New Media Minute and TV Week reporter.

About NATPE
NATPE is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of digital video content programming in all forms across mature and emerging media platforms. NATPE develops and nurtures opportunities, both commercial and educational, for the buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas. More details on the Next TV Competition, including eligibility, entry requirements, prizes and deadlines, can be found at http://latvfest.net/latvfestival/natpes-nexttv-competition.

About Stickam.com
Stickam.com is the pioneer of live streaming video and the largest live community on the Internet. It delivers live interactive streaming to any desktop, laptop or any Java-enabled mobile device, to over three million registered users. Stickam.com’s API allows anyone to integrate all of Stickam.com’s live video streaming services into Web sites and applications. Stickam.com also offers PayPerLive.com, a live video streaming platform for professionals. For more information, please visit www.stickam.com.

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As the old saying goes, “Laughter is the best medicine.” To aid that effort, Causecast is proud to present A Cause for Comedy, a monthly comedy event where proceeds benefit a different charity each month.  This month the cause is Project Angel Food  - an excellent organization that provides daily meals, comfort and social interactions for people homebound or disabled by HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses in the Los Angeles area.

A Cause for Comedy is hosted by the very funny Ben Morrison (Punk’d). The night will also feature sets by Ahmed Ahmed, Bret Ernst, Iliza Shlesinger and Kate Micucci. 

For more info please visit http://www.symfonee.com/Improv/hollywood/attractions/index.aspx

Catch the live stream Thursday night, May 7 at 8 PM PT www.stickam.com/causecast

Kevin Pollak welcomes Oscar-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) and actress Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds) to this week’s show.   Join the chat and let Kevin know your questions, or pose them via Twitter @kevinpollak. 

The Kevin Pollak Chat Show streams live each Sunday at 5 PM PT (8 PM ET) from the Mahalo studios. 

www.stickam.com/kevinpollakchatshow