Most of you know that, following a somewhat firm request by the city of Atherton, we finally moved TechCrunch out of my house and into a great new office in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.
A few of you have been kind enough to stop by and visit and see us at work. But for those of you who haven’t stopped by, you can now see what we’re up to 24/7, thanks to Ustream. The TechCrunch cam is now up and running (or crunchcam), strategically placed at an angle to show as much of the office as possible. We’ll leave this on as often as we can, and it will double as a security camera at night. Please be patient if it goes down from time to time today, our tech team is busy duct taping the camera to an Ikea lamp that we’re using as a tripod. First class all the way here at TechCrunch.
We may install a second camera with a directional microphone to allow some limited audio. Stay tuned.
Very very cool.
Yes, love that board that says “your ad here, email heather”…
http://techcrun...s.com/crunchcam
Completely off-topic, but thank you for posting that or I would never have signed up for Posterous. That site is addicting. Nice looking, too. With all those features, I wonder what they’ll eventually charge for it.
guys, get a ceiling fan or something so there’s movement when the dog isn’t around!
(12:30pm ET is what… 9:30am PT and no one at work yet? Slackers!!!
Probably missed it in a prior thread – but I gotta know the pooch’s name!!!
Nice!
Very cool Mike, thanks for opening up the TC offices. Oh, glad you finally got a personal twitter acct.
http://twitter.com/cliffdailey
Whoah.. this is like TOMGREEN.Com Live only with more purpose! I realize that’s a pretty low bar to set.
so you just roll around on a segway all day long?
You say it like it’s a bad thing.
no no, I am sure the OP is just envious
Can you point the cam such that the stairs are in view. We want to capture the carnage if the Segway takes someone for a real ride
Now we’ll know when you are working. Or, not working. Or, whatever the term is for the state of being between working and not working.
Rad.
Show me Laguna!
hope it includes a chat box. still gonna have to have live interviews to compete with calcanis’s live thisweekinstartups.com show.
CamsLocator.com watch yourself
Oh look, “locator.com douche” has a comment again. He’s an expert on every subject.
Dude, what value do you add to anything. Can’t you go spam Valleywag or somewhere else.
Whats funny is this guy spends all this time spamming tech sites, and in the last year has not made is “network” actually work… Its a broken ning site for F*&ks sake….
funny are driveby hater clowns. no link, no name, no value, nobodies. lame ducks.
quack, quack, quack.
Would love an audio feed.
I second that…
Wow… so voyeuristic. This is kind of a tease for all those many many folks out of work, isn’t it?
LMAO, that’s awesome. What’s up with the sagway?
No comment love for my insane technical Segway juggling skills? You people don’t appreciate fine art.
Gosh–why didn’t we have a segway when I was an intern?
lol very cool!
u guys allow visitors? <=== literally next door 360 bryant street (home care assistance) : P
Slick. Gotta love technology.
Now journos can watch you scoop them in real-time.
Pretty sure this video is just being looped over and over again a la Speed.
Too bad no sound !
THERE IS A BOMB ATTACHED TO THE SEGWAY!!
YOU MUST KEEP IT OVER 5MPH!!!
Come on guys, no love for Tatango.tv in the post? ;D
Cool stuff. Now we can see if they do, as many expect, beat off to Twitter stories.
Laguna’s adoreable.
This is the most boring thing ever. I’m just amazed at how many out of work tech guys have nothing better to do.
Kudos!
Man, didn’t the Tatango guys do this two months ago? They have full audio too!
Good luck with the live cams guys!
Man, didn’t the Tatango guys do this two months ago? They have full audio too!
Good luck with the live cams guys!
Who cleans up the dog poo?
Cool idea…
Talking about videos, Mike, since you know so many influential people in the IT field, how about doing interviews with them, Ã la Charlie Rose, and posting them on TC…? It would be great and would seriously increase your audience…
Paul
That’s a good idea, really.
PS you could even borrow/rent Calacanis’ studio…
They could also pretend to be 12 year old girls on MySpace and lure predators to the office. Mike could confront them in front of the office cam.
ROFL!!!!
So where does everyone sit?
The four legged employee. Did you make off with one of the Google Goats and spray paint it? I demand to see his resume!
Kinda creepy without any sound.
The guy on the right side just picked his nose.
Mesmerizing.
Neat, can you give a few technical details about the setup?
yep. ustream. webcam. ikea lamp. done.
Why no IRC chat? :/
Now we only need to monitor this 24/7 for a glimpse of the CrunchPad.
Get a robot to do that.
Actually that’s a good idea. Get a robot like the WowWee Rovio running around the office and let the occasional TechCrunch reader pilot it while streaming the feed over UStream.
So do we get to see Arrington surf TMZ.com at night?
Oooh, no more PornoTube for the dude at the center desk
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Nice, but kinda boring without sound!
And who’s playing with the toys instead of working!
What kind of camera are you using? And where can I get one?
Is that Ikea furniture?
I am sure glad I don’t work for you. I would hate that I’m broadcasted live to thousands of morons online.
I saw a dog! What’s his/her name? Also, what upload speed do you have to run video that smooth?
Thanks!
make sure all employees know you have a live stream going on.
An employee at live 105 didn’t know and he was caught yanking it late at night.
You gotta put that thing in the sidebar so it’s always on the TechCrunch page.
All I see is white and ikea. Where is all the kick ass wall graphics that twitter has?!
yeah we’re a blog.
I think what you guys need is an office linebacker. Where’s Terry Tate when you need him?
Ouch.
damn this is pretty brave. and that poor sod next to the camera is never gonna get a chance to fuck around facebook for too long cause… EVERYONE IS WATCHING
What desks are those? Gotta love simplicity…
to make this work, the camera needs to be pointed at Arrington
That is really awesome! Congrats on the new office…love the live feed idea.
Request 1 wide angle camera lens.
So we gonna see people picking their noses and scratching their balls :-0
Remember when suck.com was still alive? Kind of like that.
I feel kinda sorta oddly stalkerish lol
this is awsome!
Would be nice if you could some lights of at night. What a waste of power. Cool webcam maybe infrared would do at night