Justin.tv, which a far as I can tell does live mobile webcam streaming, officially launched yesterday. I met Justin at Macworld where he briefly described the technology. I like the idea, though I’m not particularly compelled to watch him go shopping and eat lunch. Ashot argues that what makes it interesting is the ‘realness’ of it. I have a sufficiently hard time dealing with the reality of my own life. It would be cool if he did short movie summaries of his day so that those who want to follow him, while attempting to maintain some semblance of a real life, could get the ‘digest’ version.
I didn’t know this when I met Justin, but the site is funded by Y Combinator. Despite the grumpy mutterings of ‘exploitation’, Y combinator gives youths an opportunity to try their hand at entreprenuership. Whether or not the product suceeds, I’m sure the developers have gained a lot of vaulable experience. I <3 Paul Graham(and he’s a Lisp guy!).
I have been watchin Justin on and off now, and I think I am addicted. When you tell people about it, their first impression is, “Oh, that would get boring, just watching a guy walk around all day…”, but he is not an ordinary guy…
It’s fun because we are watching him handle this justin dot tv thing. We can watch him make mistakes and we can watch him succeed.
To be honest Karen, I am sitting here typing this to you right now, and I’m kinda sad that I can’t login to Justin.tv (site is down).
I am excited to see the future of this.