StickiWidgets

Here is a quick update.

Played with customizing the Stickam profile page.

• customizing the page is possible but tricky
• see the Stickam profile page example

Updated the free Stickam chat room redirection service.

• now accepts either the chat room name or a profile name
• added Stickam Chat Room Redirection Service page for details

Developed prototype for “Where Am I” image widget.

• added Stickam Where Am I Image Widget page for details
• support for multiple colors

See examples of the above at Stickam Profile Example or MySpace Profile Example.

The above widgets and services help give the users more control on how they utilize and customize various social networks and the Stickam video chat system.

A new feature was added to the Stickam WordPress Sidebar Widget. The new feature allow you to monitor a specific Stickam chat room that you specify. A list of all current chat room users will be displayed with a link to their Stickam profile page. Since the sidebar widget uses the same data file as all other widgets provided by StickiWidgets, you will need to look up the associated “Filename” on the Stickam Chat Room Image Widget page. The chat room “Filename” is what is used to track the chat rooms. It is not the best way to implement this but due to the way Stickam expires chat rooms, this is the alternative to having to update the chat room ID every time a chat room expires and is re-created. As long as the chat room names are the same, the current method will be able to track the new room without any updates by the user.

We are looking into various ways of utilizing the Stickam video platform which may or may not be its original intent. If you visit the Stickam Broadcasting Center of this site, you will see what we are experimenting with here at StickiWidgets. With an existing site, some low cost hardware, and a free account on Stickam you can begin broadcasting video over the internet. There is the basic built-in functionality of the Stickam player and viewer but with some simple coding we have cropped the viewer image to a display only. This will provide site viewers with just a basic video stream to watch. With the default Stickam player you can broadcast live video to your viewers. If you utilize a third party program like SplitCam (also free) you can stream recorded videos. As you can see, with little effort and cost, there are endless possibilities for starting your own internet broadcast station, whether it be person, news, meetings, video blogs, security monitor, etc. We are still working out some of the kinks and performance issues so check back often for updates on the Stickam Broadcasting Center experiment and other happening here at StickiWidgets.