PodcampNYC 2.0 is coming up next week and I am planning on attending both days. I am very happy to report that I will be broadcasting the entire weekend live at justin.tv/smojo. PodcampNYC is happening on April 25th and 26th in Brooklyn, NY at the Polytechnic University. Thanks to JTV I have a laptop and evdo card so I will be able to be totally mobile next week. Should be a lot of fun.
This podcamp looks like it will be packed with people and great sessions. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with all the social media folks. The only downside I foresee is the fact that I will need to take a train into NYC and then transfer a few times on the subway to finally make it to the university. Riding the subway isn’t really the problem but having to transfer 4 or 5 times will be annoying.
Going back to the east coast also means I will be visiting with my family. Most of my time will be spent at my parents house in CT but I will also be making trips to Delaware and Long Island to see the grandparents, aunts, uncles etc. I really can not wait to get on the plane. Very excited about the trip and also having some time off from work which makes it even better.
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It is so hard to believe that I have been apart of Justin.tv for over a year now. So much has changed in a year. Some things good and some things bad. Through JTV I have had many awesome memories and met so many great people. Without Justin.tv I would never had joined twitter. I would have never started doing videos and I most importantly would have never started this blog. All this social crap I am into nowadays all began with Justin.tv. But lets take a look back to 1 year ago from my perspective.
5 days after they launched I discovered Justin Kan and JTV. The concept of the site was interesting to me. Before Justin came around you had 24/7 video broadcasts but the cameras were always stationary. The fact that Justin had a camera on his hat and it was streaming live audio and video all day long was just amazing to me. The 1st month had to be my favorite because you got to see these 4 guys try and figure out what to do with this startup. You were able to watch and listen to everything. In later months Justin would start muting the mic but in that 1st month you got to hear all the brainstorming and arguments. The epic battles between Emmett and Michael. The mysterious Kyle who wasn’t on camera much but we would hear about how he was a home wrecker. Of course you had Justin who would take the cam in the bathroom when he peed and pooped. It was more than just watching Justin all day. You got to watch the entire JTV crew sitting on the couches in a small apartment joking around and shooting ideas off each other. You also got to watch them deal with all the media attention and of course the people on the street wondering why he had a camera on his head
Nowadays you see the occasional person complain about chat but it is 10000x better than the early chat days. When the site 1st launched the chat was horrific. The early days with the old lingr chat was just horrid and it is painful to even think about. I can remember a small number of people started a chat on the efnet irc server because site chat was so bad. I used to spend most of my free time in that chat. It is also the 1st time I talked to iJustine who used to visit the chat once in a while before she started broadcasting. Also a JTV regular who is still around was in the chat all the time. That person being SprintNXT. I can also remember the old Peanut Gallery chat being a lot of fun. I really miss those days.
I could ramble on about this topic but I think this post is long enough hah. Let me end it by listing some of my favorite early moments on Justin.tv. Please feel free to list some of your favorite moments from JTV in the early days in the comments.
- Of course everyone remembers the Police Raid.
- GGJeffy and Justin in the elevator.
- Justin’s first on air kiss
- Justin getting kicked out of the Gap and then reading my email later on about how I called the store.
- Justin’s love for the mustard shorts.
- Losing reception in the elevator
- Digh at the apartment wearing a GoDaddy shirt and Justin constantly looking at her chest. Goooodadddy!
- The Weeblies and Kyle sneaking into the bedroom and stealing the camera while Justin slept.
- Jumping in the pool after getting 100 diggs.
Like I said I could go on and on about this stuff. The great thing about JTV is that it has archives. The archiver didn’t work that well back then but there is still a lot of video archived from March and April of 2007 so feel free to go back to the beginning of JTV time and watch it from the start! Also check out some of the old Justin.tv fan blogs. Justin.tv The Real Cast and also Justin.TV Guide.
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Rumors are flying around the internet that Yahoo is going to offer a “lifecasting” service. It is reported that the service is only open to Yahoo employees for the moment. The url for the new service looks like it will be http://live.yahoo.com/. It is currently giving a 403 forbidden error when you go to that address so we are all blocked out. I’m hoping Yahoo will make a formal announcement about the service. We need more details.
One thing that is kind of annoying me is everyone using the term “lifecasting”. This new service will have very little lifecasting going on. My predictions are that this new Yahoo service will be just another chatcasting site. What I mean by chatcasting is users will be sitting in front of their computer with the web cam on them and they will be chatting with viewers. This is not lifecasting! Lifecasting to me is broadcasting your everyday events. It is about being mobile and letting others peek in to what you are doing for the day. This is going to be just another web cam site where 15 year old girls fire up their cam and dance around while a bunch of horny guys say immature and stupid comments. We will have to wait and see but I don’t think anything new or innovative will be coming from Yahoo’s new service. What do you think about it?
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