Serendipity35

Well, not MY life.

A few people sent me the link to justin.tv. It's a new site (2 weeks old) where a guy wears a camera 24/7 and lets you follow his life. When I checked in on Justin he was playing a video game (even more boring to me than actually playing a video game).

This is not a new idea (broadcasting your life online) but a reminder of what a new generation is doing with technology and what they are comfortable with doing with technology.

It's a nicely put together site and the video (live & archived) and chat works well. He seems to have some sponsors and will probably spin this off into a business model of some kind.

Justin is CEO & camera:

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.

I convinced three of my friends (Emmett, Michael, and Kyle) to join me out in San Francisco. Now, we're starting a company to make broadcasting live video on the web easy.

Two people told me that they just load the page and do other work & check in when something sounds interesting.

The other site people have told me to check out is Twitter - a social networking and micro-blogging service where users send short (<140 characters) text posts (like instant messaging). These updates are displayed on the user's profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. (That can be everybody or restricted to friends.)

When Time magazine did a piece on it, I figured it was time to give it a weekend nod here.

Most of the messages are incredibly banal (watching X-Men 3, eating pizza, listening to The Shins, working on an assignment) and yet a large number of people have signed up and are using it. You can check Presidential hopeful Senator John Edwards twittering too.

Like justin.tv, you may marvel at this time-wasting and its appeal, but it is there.