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Jazz Up Your Blog or Website with Video Broadcasting Online: Some Cool Webcam Tools

June 13th, 2007 by Joshua Dorkin | Filed under Blogging, Technology, Website Tools.

josh-peace.jpgEveryone these days has a webcam, and I’m pretty sure most people don’t really use it too much (outside those of you voyeurs & teenagers out there). I actually use mine almost daily making video phone calls through Skype. It’s great! I keep up with my family, friends, and business associates by making these video calls.

There are, however, other great uses of these cameras. I did some exploring yesterday and found a bunch of cool resources for doing online broadcasting via your webcam. These tools can be used to start your own live online TV show, to create a video blog, or to just make interesting web-videos. All are worth checking out!
Live Web Broadcasting Tools

Scheduled and On-Demand Web Broadcasting Tools


SplashCast Demonstration
Note: This took me 5 minutes to put together!

Thanks to Masternewmedia.com for putting out a great web broadcasting guide and list of web broadcasting tools!

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  • Neo
    Thanks for the nice list. I will now visit them and check. One thing which I want to do is create online tutorials of photoshop. I tried using flash flv but alas...unsuccessful

    Thanks for the help
    Neo
  • It's important to remember that having a stable and reliable high speed internet connection is necessary to establish and maintain video conferencing. Using a high-speed internet connection is preferable that way the experience not only workable but also enjoyable.
  • interesting
  • Yes, video broadcasting is big help for our website and blog. For its really effective on my field, i use it to blog just to promote my DVDs to my visitors but not in the essence of selling instead on whats good about this show. So, video broadcasting is great effective way of connecting to people. By the way i really enjoying reading your posted topic, its well informative on my field. keep it up...
  • I use iChat on a regular basis. It's an awesome program and if you want to send a file you just drag it over the message area. Great website by the way.
  • Sometimes I feel like I'm a dinosaur still stuck in the skype age. Everyone else seems to have moved on to video conferencing. lol
  • Great post. Thanks. Can I put on my video search marketing site - Reelseo.com
  • Nice website...I've got a mac and have never used iChat. Guess it's time to start.
  • this is nice tool which I would like to put in my website. My website isn't widget ready how do I do this? Hope you can guide
  • I would feel the need to look like a civilized human being if I was to video-chat daily. I should probably shave and give it a go.

    What webcam do you use?
    (Nice theme, by the way.)
  • Great list. I really enjoy using Ichat with my video camera. Since I'm a videographer I guess you can say that makes a really nice webcam :)
  • I uploaded my first YouTube video this week!

    For those who don't know, most digital cameras will allow you to record videos - you don't have to have a dedicated webcam. You'd probably need a webcam for live shows or video calls though. I haven't found a way to do this with my digicam...
  • Josh...I really need to put my nice web cam to use. I didn't get the cheapest thing out there, but not using it is doing me ZIP good. I plan to put a link to this post on our Friday "Who Said That?." I found you via fast pitch.
  • ken
    i admit that i don't use much web cam or video braodcasting, but if you look at how popular is youtube and podcast, definitely need to catch up and try some of the product you mention.
  • Video Blogging is something that I've always wanted to get into, yet I never have probably due to my lack of webcam experience. I had one and lost it a couple of years back, and haven't thought much about it again until recently.

    The Internet's 'Video Age' has finally arrived and there's no time like the present to dive in.
  • I must be the only person under the age of 25 who doesn't own a webcam. shame on me!
  • Sweet! Thanks for the SplashCast love! One of them players sure would look nice in your sidebar with a whole channel of videos in it! :) Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
    thanks and good luck!
    Marshall Kirkpatrick
    Director of Content
    SplashCast Media
    marshall@splashcastmedia.com
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