Justin.tv: The 24/7 Human Video Stream

posted by Scott Beale on Friday, March 23rd, 2007

4 days ago Justin Kan started wearing a head-mounted video camera, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can tune in at justin.tv anytime and see a realtime video stream.

It’s bizarrely fascinating in voyeuristic way. They have a live chat running on the website and it’s interesting to see the immediate feedback and commentary from the audience.

Justin and his 3 man crew have moved down to San Francisco from Seattle to start a live online video broadcasting company and justin.tv is their first project. It will be interesting to see how long he keeps doing it.

I am broadcasting live video of my life 24/7 to the internet. I started Justin.tv because I thought it would awesome for people to see what it was like to be Justin.

Right now he’s hanging out with reddit at the Wired offices (reddit even modified their logo in honor of Justin’s visit).

Justin answers a few questions about the project and why he is doing it.

UPDATE 1: Annalee Newitz has written an article on justin.tv for Wired News: “Real-Time Reality Feeds Justin.tv”

In the article Annalee talks about how Justin and his crew have already been pranked when someone called 911 spoofing the justin.tv cell phone number (they list it on their website) and reported a stabbing at their apartment. TechCrunch has posted the video of the police showing up with their guns drawn.

UPDATE 2: Ha, I just sent Justin text message and watched as he received it and read it live. Now that’s pretty amazing.

UPDATE 3: I ended up hanging out with the Justin.tv crew on March 23rd: “Late Night With Justin.tv, So Meta It Hurts”

UPDATE 4: Laughing Squid is organizing a Drinkup with Justin.tv on Sunday, March 25th at Zeitgeist in San Francisco.

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Justin 03/23/2007 07:51 PM 1 point
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Thanks for the blog! If you're in SF, we should meet up some time. Justin.

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buns and chou chou 03/25/2007 10:54 AM 1 point
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that's funny mates!

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Laura Gullett 11/04/2007 01:57 AM 1 point
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Justin you are a genius. I am so happy to find you and this idea. I would like to know more info like the best camera, and other equipment to make this most successful with respect to quality. What did you say to your advertisers and what does the contract look like? I need behind the scenes business stuff in order to set this up in my local Cleveland area for a holiday start. I need to create a business plan on Sunday, Nov 4th, so I can present it asap for funding. I already own a corp and want to do this immediately. I'm very excited about this opportunity way to meet people and do marketing gigs. I came up with an idea of going around a store and talking about all the holiday stuff they have, repeating the store name, location, holiday hours, specials, etc. It costs much less than TV, radio, etc. and I am just as professional knowing people will see me on the net live.
My URL shows my background, resume', and more about me, so you can relate to who I am. Thank you so much again for your sharing and great ideas. You are an inspiration! Laura Gullett in Cleveland, OH. 216.939.9656.

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Laura Gullett 11/04/2007 02:01 AM 1 point
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Oh and Justin. I of course will pay whatever you require for the information as soon as the funding would be approved. A contract can be brought up in order to provide the information so I can pay you with the funding. I'm sure as you know it will be a very approved marketing way to go for the holiday season, so paying you should not be a problem. You should think about it as franchising your idea and make sure you are under a corp in order to do so. You deserve all the credit. Laura

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Laura Gullett 11/04/2007 02:26 AM 1 point
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Justin,
I can help you with all the franchising details if you have the resources to set that up. This is the perfect time for you to put many of those details together in a legal way and license it out. My mind is racing with ideas now.
Hope to talk to you soon,
Laura

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Laura Gullett Yesterday 09:59 AM 1 point
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Justin,

If you are livecasting why can't I find you on justin.tv? I even Googled your name and still no live link listed. I searched for your webcast via Directory search and still nothing. Are you wearing the camera everyday? Please contact me about the business information listed here.

Have fun,
Laura

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