Sunday 25 March 2007

Where every hour is amateur hour

Now here is a site that will get no short amount of infamy. Justin.tv has just gone six days old and features a young entrepreneur, Justin Kan, streaming video of his life, live on the internet. The twist, in comparison to previous 'watch my life' web cam efforts is Justin has a camera mounted to his head, and you can watch him 24-7 no matter where he goes.

Not kidding.

Its a fantastic concept, and i will be amazed to see where this goes. He's already gotten himself a front page on Digg which must have put his viewing figures through the roof. It surely won't be long til Letterman comes calling and then i wonder what will happen? Will people want to watch the interview on television or over the internet via Justin.tv? That will be quite a showdown between the old big daddy medium and the new unruly one.

Either way, i think its hilarious. The servers will surely crash at some stage if it really starts to take off. But, if for nothing else, its an amazing, crazy, internet 5.0 idea.

BTW, my subject heading is a great quote taken from the site itself.

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