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Natalie Portman a la justin.tv?

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11 pointsSam_Odio18 comments

If this is true, it would be insane if JustinTV didn't chase this lead. She's the kind of person that could take lifecasting from the nerd audience to the everyone audience really quickly.

I would normally be afraid that she would just hire some average geeks on the cheap and broadcast her camera stuff, but people seem to have implied that the justin.tv's have some amazing technology that gives them a big advantage over everybody. I'd be interested in what that technology advantage is, though.

Im guessing they only have software advantages...seems unlikely they have actual technology without having an electrical engineer on their team.

http://www.justin.tv/cast#kyle

Guessed wrong.

But from what I have read, they just hacked together off-the-shelves technologies. Making new technology in the semi-conductor industry is often very expensive. Besides the skill set required to hack-together off the shelve technology is not nearly as specialized and difficult as making new circuits/chips.

Jason, I don't get it. In what way is software not technology?

I just meant more that if someone was starting a streaming live video on the go startup. The technology I would be interested in seeing, is if they had developed a easily portable camera with persistant wireless connection.

I personally do not consider most software to be new technology, unless it has some especially innovative algorithm or something. But calling all software technology is just a matter of personal taste.

i wonder why she is wasting time going to investors, doesn't make much sense, if she needs money for tech then I am sure justin.tv would oblige to cover the tech. maybe justin.tv has declined because they arent ready or maybe she doesn't want a 24hr experience... Although it is being reported by valleywag so who knows.

Not to be insensitive to Justin, but his life isn't exciting in a way that attracts the masses to his video feed. Most of the time he's walking around his apartment, or sitting on his couch playing with his laptop. he just doesn't have the charisma that somebody like Natalie Portman likely has.

Certainly, part of the charm of jtv is that he's just a normal guy doing normal things. It's fascinating to see how the simple act of wearing the camera changes his life - people talk to him differently, he gets invited to things, he's suddenly something of a celebrity just because of the presence of the camera.

But imagine that camera on Natalie Portman or Paris Hilton, or someone whose life is already incredibly out of the ordinary - while some of the charm is lost, it certainly would add a lot of intrigue.

There's also a lot of opportunity for using this kind of platform to do loosely narrative driven content: someone wears it for a single date, a job interview, to document a startup, to document making a film, etc.

ch...what? I think you mispelled "breasts"

If she's walking around with a camera on her head like Justin then you won't be seeing much of her boobs unless she has some kind of weird obsession with them. But we can always dream!

I would not call JustinTV a technology startup. They are Web 2.0 company, i.e. they are following myriads of other "SQL to HTML converters" they are experiencing lack of data to stick to DB tables.

They are unique, however, in their attempt at building the actual data for their SELECT statements, as opposed of asking their users to provide their own data for conversion to HTML.

Ehm... all hints by people in the know have pointed to significant technology that's invisible to the user. They aren't just content providers.

Umm..do any of the people "in the know" as you say, have a technical background other than computer science? Ive heard plenty of people in CS refer to a cool programming language as a new "technology". That may be a technically correct use of the word. But when I hear the word technology I think of faster CPU, smaller ram, more powerful jet engines, a new way to design drugs, etc....

In this particular case of streaming video...i would think smaller more convinent cameras with better bandwidth and easier access to the internet.

I'm talking about PG etc saying that they have extra technology, and lookalikes are just fakers. In the know means in this context that people know the justin.tv'ers and know what's going on.

ok so CS people only.

You don't consider software to be technology?

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