The Future Is Lifecasting

by Jonathan Coffman on August 28, 2007 · 0 comments

in New Media

Forget blogging, podcasting, and discussion boards! Lifecasting is the next big thing on the web. With the proliferation 3G cell networks, and ever increasing high-speed internet adoptions rates video is the name of the game.<p>If you don’t have video posted to the web yet, you better get started because your competition does! People are finally adopting video watching and downloading at alarming rates. If you can’t provide it for them, there are plenty of other sources who will.<p>Back to the topic of this post though: Lifecasting is the practice of videotaping the things you do everyday and posting them online in a sort of online version of your life. The hippest of internet users are actually streaming their lives LIVE on the web where hundreds of people at any given time watch intently to see what you will do next.Remember The Truman Show? This is very similar and it’s not just for the voyeurs anymore! <p>One of my personal favorite web people right now lifecasts: http://www.ijustine.tv Justine Ezarik is a Mac user, blogger, lifecaster, professional designer, and oh so much more!<p> You’ve probably seen her on the national TV networks talking about her first iPhone bill from AT&T (her iPhone bill was 300 pages long and came in a cardboard box!)At one point this past week there were over 400 people watching her live-stream online as she rode a mechanical bull and then ran through airport security (video camera on in her purse) and nearly missed her flight from LA to Denver. 

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