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...voyeurism on the Internet? Let us count the ways. Three years ago, just over a third of a million people bought those little eyeball-shaped cameras called webcams that live on top of a computer monitor, connect to the Internet and can turn anyone's life into a continuous broadcast. Last year 2.5 million webcams were sold. By 2003, sales of these eminently cheap ($50) little devices are expected to hit 36 million. When you buy your next PC, it's as likely to come with a webcam as with a keyboard...
...quarter of a million webcam sites now up and running show everyone and everything from naked mole rats to New York City taxi drivers, all live and unedited. In a recent survey, 39% of college students said they already use or watch webcams. During the broadcast of the original Big Brother in Germany, the show's website--on which you could see all the 24-hour feeds of the participants in the house instead of just the edited TV installments--was clicked on as often as megasites Yahoo...
Brian Cury, CEO and founder of the webcam portal EarthCam.com adds 30 webcams a day to his site and estimates that around 2 million viewers log on to catch a live image of someone else's daily activities. "People are screaming to communicate using this medium," he says. "Within hours, they start to create an affinity with the people they're looking...
Just ask Aimee, a 29-year-old certified public accountant living on the North Carolina coast, who receives the affinity of more than 5,000 strangers every day through her website, acamgirl.com Aimee, a redhead with freckles, began broadcasting on the Internet in 1997, back when webcams were still something of a novelty, and has become one of the Web's most watched faces and a fixture at the top of just about every Top-100 webcam list going. Though she refuses to divulge her surname for fear of attracting stalkers, she has no other qualms about giving...
...WHAT?" she shot back. I told her to just click on the address and see. She did, and went to the SpotLife site--where she observed me sitting at my desk. Eating a doughnut. Blink. "SO?" she I.M.'d me. O.K., there was something underwhelming about the Webcam experience. Frankly, it was more interesting to peek into the windows of the hundreds of other people who were "live" on SpotLife. I especially liked the Webcast of the two basset hounds. Now that's entertainment...