New Stickam.com iPhone SDK allows live streaming integration for apps in the iTunes store; partners with 211me to add video streaming to celebrity apps, beginning with Twilight’s Peter Facinelli

LOS ANGELES – November 17, 2009 – Stickam.com, the pioneer of live streaming video and the largest live community on the Internet, today introduced its iPhone SDK for third-party integration of live video streaming into iPhone apps.

The iPhone SDK is based on Stickam.com’s StreamAPI platform, providing an easy-to-implement white label solution that allows developers to integrate live video streaming into any business, entertainment or educational iPhone app. The SDK utilizes Apple QuickTime’s H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality, with the addition of Stickam.com’s live chat integration so users can interact with each other from within the app directly and seamlessly.

211me, creator of iPhone applications and social media solutions for celebrities, media companies and product manufacturers, has utilized Stickam.com’s iPhone SDK to power its celebrity apps, beginning with an app for Twilight star, Peter Facinelli.

“We’re excited to add live video from Stickam to all our celebrity iPhone apps, starting with Peter’s and extending to all of our clients including Billy Burke, Jennie Garth, Danneel Harris, Lucas Till, Tia Carrere, Neal McDonough, Eric Christian Olsen, Steve Carlson, Bailee Madison and Stephen Colletti,” said Rob DeFranco, CEO of 211me. “There’s no doubt that fans are looking for immediate and intimate access to stars, which means delivering content to mobile phones is key. Peter has been at the forefront of connecting directly with his fans through social media, and his iPhone app brings fans even closer to him through exclusive photos, videos, updates, direct chats and, now, live streaming.”

Facinelli, better known as Dr. Carlisle Cullen to fans of the Twilight series, is gearing up for the premiere of “New Moon” on Nov. 20 with appearances on Rachel Ray, Martha Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and many others. While he’s on location during filming and on the road promoting the movie, Facinelli connects with fans through social networking, providing behind-the-scenes access.
 
StreamAPI is a fully customizable and scalable white label solution that enables companies to easily and cost-effectively add live video streaming capabilities to their Web sites and online applications. With no monthly fees or up-front development costs, pricing is a predictable flat rate of 45 cents per gigabyte. With StreamAPI’s analytics tools, application developers can track bandwidth usage, traffic sources and number of visitors, broken down by time period for each live session.

“Today’s availability of the Stickam iPhone SDK, along with our recent launch of the StreamAPI application for Facebook, illustrates how we constantly strive to help entertainers and media providers deliver the live content users want, wherever they’re located,” said Steven Fruchter, CEO of Stickam.com. “We’re pleased to help iPhone app developers add live streaming and connect directly with their users by providing the back-end technology.”

For developers building a Web application instead of an iPhone app, Stickam.com has also allowed the ability to stream directly to a Safari browser on an iPhone and iPod Touch via a Web address.
 

About 211me
211me is a celebrity iPhone and social media company. They give celebrities the tools to publish, distribute and control media content right from their iPhones with 211me’s iStar iPhone applications. 211me also works to connect celebrities and sponsors to create branded and customized applications. For more information, please visit www.211me.com.

About Stickam.com
Stickam.com is the pioneer of live streaming video and the largest live community on the Internet. Stickam.com delivers live interactive streaming to over five million registered users on any computer, console or mobile device. Stickam’s StreamAPI.com is the easiest and most cost effective way to incorporate live streaming video services into your Web site or application. Stickam also offers PayPerLive.com, a turnkey white label live video streaming platform for professionals. For more information, please visit www.stickam.com.

We are honored to be nominated in the Streaming Media 2009 Readers Choice Awards. Please support Stickam by clicking here and casting a vote for us! Voting ends Friday evening (10/16) so please vote right away.  Thank you for your support!

Released today is our new Twitter chat function. Once you have entered your Twitter information here, every time you go live you will see a new Twitter chat box displayed on the right hand side of your host chat. Your viewers and friends will now have the option to chat with you here as well as in your Stickam chat room. Messages will appear instantly in your Twitter chat room.

When you join someone’s chatroom, if they have linked their Twitter account you will be able to choose between the “Stickam chat” and “Twitter chat” tabs.

Welcome to our all new front page!  We listened to the great suggestions we received from our community and are happy to implement changes you asked for.  Some of our new front page features include the display of a short biography for featured shows, a quick at-a-glance preview of the schedule of upcoming featured shows, and recent recorded highlights of shows and events that were captured live on Stickam.

To have your show or event be included on the StreamGuide schedule. please make sure to fill out your calendar (on your Mypage) and check off the “request to be featured” box.

Have a great recorded clip you’d like us to feature?  Send us an email with a link to showtime@stickam.com.

We hope that everyone had a safe and pleasant holiday season.  With just a few days into the new year, Stickam is revved up to bringing you compelling content for the weeks to come.  Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store for the month ahead so stay tuned for more:

Today at 5pm PST, tune in to Aldo Vento’s weekly show with special guests, Kynt & Vyxsin, from the 12th season of the Emmy awarded reality series, The Amazing Race.  Find what they’ve been up to and what life is like for this “Dating Goths” couple a year after competing on the show.

This Thursday and Friday (Jan. 8-9), the annual Consumer Electronics Show shifts into full gear with live coverage from TechZulu and G4 TV.  Starting this Thursday and Friday for three hours G4 will be live at the Consumer Electronics Show which will feature two Stickam Virtual Audience segments per day where our viewers will be able to chat with our hosts about the tech and gadgets they are most excited to see. These shows will be airing from 3pm to 6pm PST both days. TechZulu will also stake their place at this year’s show as they go mobile with Stickam, broadcasting live from a Nokia cell phone.

On Saturday, Jan. 17, Sam Proof will be streaming his weekly video show, Failpire, live from the annual YouTube LA meet-up event.

Beginning Monday, Jan. 26, Stickam will be streaming the NATPE Market & Conference, NATPE’s biggest event of the year, a 4-day conference live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV.  This year’s honorees include Chuck Lorre, Tyler Perry (Creator and Executive Producer, House of Payne), Ben Silverman (Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios), Anne Sweeney (Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group).  The NATPE Market & Conference is the premiere content marketplace where opportunities are developed and nurtured, both commercial and educational, for the buying, selling and sharing of content and ideas.  NATPE provides a forum for major entertainment industry players to meet, display and acquire content for existing (television) and emerging (new media) distribution platforms.

FASHION ENEMY’s Andrew Hanson welcomes fashion designer, JERRELL SCOTT, from Bravo’s 5th season of their immensely popular reality competition series, PROJECT RUNWAY.  Stitch by stitch, Jerrell made his way to the top 4 of the competition complete with an impressive showing during last fall’s New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park.  Learn more about what Jerrell has been up to, juicy behind-the-scene details from his experience on the show, and a special fashion DIY lesson from Andrew and Jerrell! Be ready to get in vogue tonight at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST.

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