Justin.tv

Arrington’s post about a police raid on Justin.tv piqued my interest enough to check it out. Kiko founders (a Y Combinator backed calendar start-up that auctioned off their software on e-Bay after Google Calendar ate their lunch) Justin Kan and Emmett Shear started Justin.tv five days ago. Justin wears a head-cam that is kept on 24 hours a day, seven days a week which is connected to a laptop and EVDO card that transmit wirelessly. This takes video-blogging to a new level. The site is actually set up pretty well and the video streams nearly perfectly. There is live chat under the video stream where viewers blab with each other about what Justin is doing or what he has been up to recently, as well as a forum where users can make suggestions of what Justin should do, and a blog updating viewers to plans, hardware changes, etc. This is a ridiculous idea, but the site works so well I’m guessing that it will be at least a short-term cult hit. If nothing else, these guys have actually done what we all once hoped we could do in college for our most ridiculous friends – give them a head-cam all the time to have a record of what they do. For me, this person was my good friend Jeff. The obvious problem is that what Justin does all day might not be as funny as what Jeff did in his Dartmouth fraternity basement while wearing a clown suit. That said, the Justin.tv apartment has been received two visits from police and fire departments in the last five days thanks to pranks pulled by viewers, so the audience might help keep it interesting. His cell number is right on the main page too, so you can give him a call.

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