Stickam in the Broadband Jungle Blog
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.
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February 7th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I just want to say that stickam is the greatest site I have been to. Its way better then myspace, u are about to meet new people, talk to them and even meet them. Most of my friends have stickam booked marked. I do. I do beleive that some of it should come at a price, but not interfering with the chatting the users have. For exsample. If someone wants to just pop online to talk to their friends that ok, but if someone want to exspose them-selfs then that should cost them. Because it is free the users think that they can do what ever they want. Which in turn, they should be informed about that is they want to use this site as a place to exspose them-selfs it should cost them. Before i go I just want to say that I would recommand this site for any 14 and up. Thank you for taking your time to read this.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I agree Stickam is the best site on the internet.I just wish some girls wouldn’t listen to these guy jerks and get themselves banned so much. There are other sites that you can get naked all you want.
P.S. Do you guys do personal web designing on the side?