In a marriage of social networking and live video, Livestream this week launched twitcam.com, the first application that lets Twitter users add live streaming video to their Twitter feeds with just one click.
Twitter users need only to log in to twitcam.com using an existing Twitter user name and password and press the ‘go live’ button. Twitcam automatically detects the camera, creates a page and live video player for the broadcast, and posts the link in the user’s Twitter feed so followers can join in live.
The new Livestream offering enables twitter users to share live video and chat. Twitcam.com was taken from concept to product in a week thanks to a soon-to-be-announced player API from Livestream. Livestream (formerly Mogulus) provides everything needed to easily webcast live, build an engaged audience and monetize these efforts, explains the company.
CamTweet, a similar concept from rival Justin.tv, is currently invite-only. Meanwhile, both compete with Ustream, which has its own social stream features and a huge following on Twitter (@ustream). Livecast has also been adapted to run on most mobile operating systems, enabling hundreds of phones, as well as Windows PCs, Macs and Linux devices to send live video with tweets.
The Webcam Plus application ($25), transforms your PDA or Smartphone to high-resolution web-camera. You can use your PDA/Smartphone as microphone and it works through Wi-Fi.
