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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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”

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