What’s next – Live Search For Live Video?
4 Comments Published by Louis Adekoya April 16th, 2007 in All Business Ideas, Blog, Web/techRobert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang are streaming live from Web 2.0 Expo using technology from Ustream and I bet many more will follow. It makes me wonder how long it will be before we see a search engine dedicated to finding live video streams – if there isn’t one already that I am not aware of that is. Think about it, with the NAB and Web 2.0 Expo shows going on right now, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to search for live video feeds from these shows or more specifically for feeds from a particular seminar or exhibitor’s stand?
Should the show organisers object to their shows being beamed free of charge to the public in this way? I don’t think so because in my opinion, it is unlikely that an individual who is able and willing to attend the show in person will refrain from doing so simply because a live feed will be available. At the risk of stating the obvious, the point I am making is that viewing a video feed can never beat being there in person because for one thing, you have less control over what you see and for how long you see it. That said, for those who are unable to be there in person anyway, it is most probably the next best thing. I note that that Jeremiah has posed a similar question here.
Here’s how to use Google to find unsecured webcams:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/04/googling_unsecured_w.html
More simply, just type this into Google:
inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=”
Googling unsecured webcams
This is both very cool and very scary. Use this search string below with Google, and you will find dozens (hundreds?) of unsecured webcam feeds (most seem to be security cams).
I have been doing this for a long time just keep in mind the difference of day and night most of the URL’s show the IP address there for you thin can trace that and find out where the cam is, thin some times I google earth it and thats also cool, been all over the world and have not left my computer room. have fun Thom Ready
Thanks Thom. Tried this but didn’t find anything particularly interesting. Perhaps there is some skill to identifying cool cams! Any pointers?
I’ve had interesting views of the ocean, the beach, there’s one that I found over in China that showed workers building some sort of a super structure, my favorite was one day it was snowing out side my house and I viewed a ski resort, ski lift and all it refreshed every 30 seconds I could see the skiers moving all around and in the htt:// was the IP address so I traced it the resort was up in Minnesota how cool is that? The best part is taking control and pan from side to side or tilt up and down, on one you could see the tech people trying to figure out what was going on, I was messing with there head now you got to understand I was snow bound and was suffering from cabin fever it was better thin watching my bread mold.. . . happy viewing Thom
Cool! I’ll keep trying and maybe I’ll get lucky. So far I have only seen what appear to be security cams and none with any particularly interesting views. I tried being very random in my selection and got a Google message saying my activity pattern resembled that of a bot. They therefore temporarily prevented me from selecting further rseults.