Last night I spoke with Georges Harik, a former director for product management at Google who's now an angel investor, about how interactive, real-time webcasting's endless possibilities can affect and improve our daily lives.
Instead of watching Justin crash for eight hours, I could watch a live broadcast of my three-month-old nephew napping. Proud parents can broadcast soccer games, talent shows and weddings. Hardcore shoppers can wear webcams to show you whether Macy's white sale is worth attending. Skiers can show you whether it's worth leaving the warm lodge and trek into the back bowls.
This makes total sense to me. Most people would not want to share every moment of their lives with people, but I would be very willing to share selected moments of my life with a select number of friends and family. If you think about it, it's not too different from sharing photos & video over the web (something most of us do). The only difference is that it's immediate, which makes it much more powerful. The immediacy makes it a shared experience which is not really the case with a shared video, a shared photo, or a blog post.
Update:
Brian Solis from bub.blicio.us has an excellent post on the potential of lifecasting, or what he calls you.tv.
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Hey Mike, I also had an interesting post on the subject of lifecasting called You.tv, http://www.briansolis.com/2007/04/youtv.html
We also interviewed Justin.tv last week for bub.blicio.us, http://bub.blicio.us/?p=122
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