I have this Logitech just festering in my desk drawer; pls help.
March 14, 2008 11:43 PM
I'm in the market for a non-skeezy, community-oriented webcam hosting site. I'm pretty sure I came across such a thing several weeks ago but have no idea how to go about tracking it down again.
Bear with me, this might be a little vague:
What I recall of the site I stumbled across is browsing through several pages with thumbnail views of webcams, all featuring people - no backyard monitoring systems, no street views documenting traffic patterns, no chicken coops - but none evidently adult oriented. Clicking on a thumbnail brought you to that webcam's main page, which featured a video (on or offline) and a chat box (this may have been optional, but was part of at least two or three of the webcam pages I found), and also possibly a comments/guestbook field. There was no apparent requirement to register in order to use the chat boxes, and there was certainly no need to sign up to view the webcams, as I was browsing without taking any action to identify myself.
I seem to also recall that the default color scheme for the cam pages was black (this may just have been for one webcam though), and it looked pretty slick - kind of social networking site oriented. The main feel that I got from this website was that it was there to connect people to people, much like Facebook or MySpace, but with webcams.
Please help me track this, or a similar site, down! Here are a few specs I'm looking for in a webcam hosting site, even if no one can track down the exact one I dug up the other week:
- no registration required for viewers
- some attention paid to design appeal
- the more web 2.0, the better
- nobody taking their pants off. I have no interest in being a cam girl, or being treated like a potential cam girl, so the less this is a pervasive theme on the site, the better.
- it'd also be great if I had the ability to somehow make it password-protected, but I realize I may just be dreaming now.
So... I'm not dreaming this ALL up, am I?
Bear with me, this might be a little vague:
What I recall of the site I stumbled across is browsing through several pages with thumbnail views of webcams, all featuring people - no backyard monitoring systems, no street views documenting traffic patterns, no chicken coops - but none evidently adult oriented. Clicking on a thumbnail brought you to that webcam's main page, which featured a video (on or offline) and a chat box (this may have been optional, but was part of at least two or three of the webcam pages I found), and also possibly a comments/guestbook field. There was no apparent requirement to register in order to use the chat boxes, and there was certainly no need to sign up to view the webcams, as I was browsing without taking any action to identify myself.
I seem to also recall that the default color scheme for the cam pages was black (this may just have been for one webcam though), and it looked pretty slick - kind of social networking site oriented. The main feel that I got from this website was that it was there to connect people to people, much like Facebook or MySpace, but with webcams.
Please help me track this, or a similar site, down! Here are a few specs I'm looking for in a webcam hosting site, even if no one can track down the exact one I dug up the other week:
- no registration required for viewers
- some attention paid to design appeal
- the more web 2.0, the better
- nobody taking their pants off. I have no interest in being a cam girl, or being treated like a potential cam girl, so the less this is a pervasive theme on the site, the better.
- it'd also be great if I had the ability to somehow make it password-protected, but I realize I may just be dreaming now.
So... I'm not dreaming this ALL up, am I?
live.yahoo.com
Not sure about the password protection, but it seems to fit with everything else.
posted by cgomez at 2:15 AM on March 15, 2008
Not sure about the password protection, but it seems to fit with everything else.
posted by cgomez at 2:15 AM on March 15, 2008
Yahoo Live, in "private" mode, doesn't password-protect, but it also doesn't list you anywhere. So the only people finding you are those who already know your URL.
(You can also block people who've found your URL but that you don't want there.)
posted by mendel at 8:35 AM on March 15, 2008
(You can also block people who've found your URL but that you don't want there.)
posted by mendel at 8:35 AM on March 15, 2008
I think what I actually came across was justin.tv, but Yahoo Live also looks awesome. Thanks, all!
posted by dorothy humbird at 9:59 AM on March 15, 2008
posted by dorothy humbird at 9:59 AM on March 15, 2008
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