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By: BitGravity lanceert geavanceerd live streaming netwerk | zoomz - Alles over internetvideo

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:12:58 +0000

[...] een van de techneuten, met een webcam in de auto van San Francisco naar Los Angeles te laten rijden en dit live te streamen. In een mashup met Google Maps was via GPS zijn reis van minuut tot minuut te [...]

By: Bitgravity Officially Launches The Content Delivery Network Than Everyone’s Been Talking About

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:57:21 +0000

[...] to work through any last minute issues. We first covered the company when one of its employees sent a live video stream from his car (using BitGravity) during a drive from San Francisco to Los [...]

By: Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web » Blog Archive » Live Reporting with Interactive Data & Maps

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:36:57 +0000

[...] pointed to a really simple, and really amazing thing that happened last week. This guy took a drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles. In doing so, he also displayed it online via webcam, and kept an updated Google map of his [...]

By: Rebelot » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-28

Rebelot » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-28 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:27:55 +0000

[...] Mashup GPS Google Maps Più risorse GPS (tags: Mappe Gps Google) [...]

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:41:58 +0000

This is the stupidest, most boring thing I have ever read. Why would anyone want to watch someone else in traffice.

By: The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-26

The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-08-26 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:20 +0000

[...] Check This Guy Out Bill Snitzer, one of the tech guys at BitGravity, is driving to Los Angeles and showing it live on the Internet. He’s got a webcam up showing the drive and a Google Map mashup with a GPS device showing his progress. (tags: streaming video ideas) [...]

By: relax outside! » Watch Bill Drive from San Francisco to LA

relax outside! » Watch Bill Drive from San Francisco to LA — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:48:17 +0000

[...] It might not be the most entertaining thing in the world to watch, but it’s an impressive display of what technology can do these days. “But how is this different than ‘Internet lifecaster’ Justin.tv?” you might be asking. Well, it’s not, I guess… but the Google Maps integration is what sets this apart from the rest. Very cool. [via] [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:27:35 +0000

this would be cool to do at the next Critical Mass…

By: Will

Will — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:49:38 +0000

If you have a PocketPC with GPS, you can share real-time location on a Google Map with http://mobilogs.mobi
You can also include photos and text with your geolog.

By: Mark Evans - Things I Don’t Get…

Mark Evans - Things I Don’t Get… — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:28:09 +0000

[...] 10. The fascination with people such as Justin.TV and Steve Mann who put cameras on themselves so people can exactly what they are doing every second of the day. Today’s on-body camera episode features a guy driving to Los Angeles. [...]

By: Patrzcie jak jadę | Internet-Marek Molicki-In Online We Trust

Patrzcie jak jadę | Internet-Marek Molicki-In Online We Trust — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:40:58 +0000

[...] Źródło: TechCrunch [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:26:30 +0000

What is the point of watching somebody else stuck in traffic? Time to either develop another hobby or buy a rope.

Jon

By: Alex Moyler

Alex Moyler — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:09:36 +0000

It seems that currently he’s in the middle of the ocean…

By: Realtime Map Tracking — everwas

Realtime Map Tracking — everwas — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:19:49 +0000

[...] TechCrunch posts about Bill from BitGravity is streaming his driving trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles over a live video stream showing the traffic out his front dashboard and a Google Maps tile showing his position as he drives down Interstate 5. He’s just south of Tracy as I write this so tune in now if you want to see it live. [...]

By: seth brundle

seth brundle — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:55:15 +0000

I cant think of anything more boring then driving on the 5 for 4 hours.

Well, except watching it in a little window on my computer.

By: EMAC » Blog Archive » Live & Mobile

EMAC » Blog Archive » Live & Mobile — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:17:23 +0000

[...] hints of the real time web integrated with mobile. Description on TechCrunch and the site [...]

By: Colin Britton

Colin Britton — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:36:50 +0000

Sitting here at home in Boston and my wife and the ludiite guest we have sitting here didn’t believe this was real, so we called Bill and spoke to him, got a wave on the webcam and off he went. This is very cool.

Congrats BitGravity.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:21:55 +0000

He should not be driving in the left lane if he is not passing anyone; just another bad driver….

By: bala

bala — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:18:50 +0000

this is awesome…can BitGravity share tech details of this adventure…

By: Friend

Friend — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:15:52 +0000

That’s My Friend

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:11:02 +0000

or some kind of car chase scene.

By: Tobias Batton

Tobias Batton — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:06:20 +0000

Nice work Barrett

Now the question is, can you install this set up in my girlfriends car so I can keep an eye on her?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:04:12 +0000

I think they should splice in footage of a major pile up.

By: Saagar

Saagar — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:01:58 +0000

It is kind of interesting that people are so interested in real life stuff. Kind of like Truman show kind of stuff.. Someone needs to make a Business model of this for Web 2.0. Yes I said that out loud

By: Watcher

Watcher — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:00:32 +0000

Every time he turns the camera to show himself at the wheel, he loses GPS lock. Must be impeding the GPS antenna, maybe not, but the map fails to continue refreshing whenever he moves the cam