Stickam is now integrated with Twitter.  You can now instantly update your Twitter anytime you go live.  Also if you are in a Stickam chat you find interesting, you can update your twitter with what room you’re in.

Here’s how:

Add your Twitter account on the Twitter settings page

Here you can also set whether you want your status to be automatically updated or not.  If you have Auto Status Update on, anytime you go live your twitter will update with a link to your Stickam profile.

If not simply open the tools tab and type in your Twitter update.

If you want to update your Twitter with what room your viewing just open the tools tab in that room and do the same.  Your status will be updated with what room you are viewing.

To install Stickam mobile click this sign up link.

1. Enter your Cell Phone number and hit submit.

Hit save and your ready to begin streaming.  You may want to change these settings in addition:

Camera: Switch camera from back to front if your phone has two.
Privacy: Specify who can join your chat -  Everyone, Members Only, Friends Only.
Video Quality: You can lower the video resolution to reduce delay on slow connections.
Orientation: Flip the screen so you can hold the phone sideways (horizontal) or upright (vertical).
Auto Record: Automatically record your sessions and save to your Stickam account.

While Live you can use the phones Dpad keys to:

Right: Zoom in
Left: Zoom out
Up: Scroll up to previous message
Down: Scroll down to next message

While Live you will be able to see:

Viewers: Number of people currently watching
Status: Offline/Connecting/Live
Delay: Minutes of video currently buffered on phone
Recording: Red circle indicates that the session is being recorded

If you get a phone call while streaming your Stickam Live stream will be shut off.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Myspace blocks the word Stickam so you can post your Stickam player embed code without redirecting our url. To do this:

Get your stickam embed code on your Mypage or MY Stickam Player page

you need to copy the text i highlighted in bold here:

embed src=”http://player.stickam.com/stickamPlayer/170042386-630310” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”480″ height=”480″ scale=”noscale” allowScriptAccess=”always”>

Copy that text and use a url redirecting site like http://tiddlyurl.com/home.php to change the url.

Paste that url back in the embed src=”" section and your code should now look like this:
embed src=”http://TiddlyUrl.com/60tcq8” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”480″ height=”480″ scale=”noscale” allowScriptAccess=”always”>

Your Stickam player should now work on Myspace.

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.

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.

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.