webcam

a digital camera designed to take digital photographs and transmit them over the internet

webcam]]A web camera (or webcam) is a real time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, Instant messengerinstant messaging, or a PC video calling application. Generally, a digital camera delivers images to a web server, either continuously or at regular intervals. A webcam is also the name of a class of video camera devices which connect directly to the PC for the purpose of video calling over the internet.The first webcam was pointed at the Trojan room coffee pot in the computer science department of Cambridge University. This webcam is now defunct, as it was finally switched off on August 2222 August 2001. The final image captured by the camera can still be viewed at the webcam's homepage cl.cam.ac.uk.As with many new technologies, webcams and webcam chat found their earliest commercial adoption and most aggressive technology advancement through use by the pornographyadult industry.The adult industry required 'live' images and requested a Dutch developer to write a piece of software that could do this without using so called 'plugins'.This led to the birth of the 'live streaming webcam', which is still availablein various forms today.Initially intended for personal Video teleconferencevideoconferencing, it was quickly realised that World Wide Web users enjoyed viewing images from cameras set up by others elsewhere in the world. While webcam refers to the technology generally, the "Web" part is often replaced with the "Category" of images the camera provides.Today there are thousands of webcam that provide views into homes, offices and other buildings as well as providing panoramic views of cities (Metrocams) and the countryside. Images from satellites are frequently posted on the World Wide Web. Webcams are also used to monitor traffic with TraffiCams, the weather with WeatherCams and even volcanos with VolcanoCams.As webcam capabilities have been added to instant messaging text chat services such as Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and MSN Messenger, one-to-one live video communication over the internet has now reached millions of mainstream PC users worldwide.Many companies have tried to jump on the 'live video' bandwagon, most notably 'vdolive'(an Israeli company), Spotlife (a Logitech daughter company) and many others, mostof these have since failed. In mid-January 2005 two easy to use Google string searching algorithmsearch strings have been published in an on-line forum. These can find thousands of Panasonic- and Axis CommunicationsAxis-made high-end web cameras. Most of such cameras are running on default configuration, which does not require any password login or IP address verification, thus once again generating public controversy over webcam privacy issues.

See also -

Quickcam

EyeToy

Video camera

List of digital camera brands

List of live webcams of places around the world

External links -

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? silentnight.info - Silent Night Webcam from the origin of ''Silent Night''.

webcamplaza.net - WebCamPlaza Huge collection of WWW webcams.

dmoz.org - Webcam links from the Open Directory Project

globocam.com - Globocam GmbH Webcams all over the world.

camcentral.com - Cam Central Large index of webcams.

earthcam.com - Earth Cam Webcams set up throughout the world.

worldlive.cz - WorldLIVE A comprehensive webcam directory.

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EyesOnSky.com
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Port of Hamburg
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Porrhuset
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Bas noirs et luxure vous en fait voir de toutes les couleurs
Jolies femmes de toutes les couleurs habillées de bas de toutes les couleurs !
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A Greater Date
Categorized dating directory of online personals sites, chat sites and webcam sites.
http://www.agreaterdate.com

Caffmos - seniors dating for gay daddies, mature and older gay men.
Caffmos is a contacts site for mature gay men, silverdaddies and senior older men plus admirers. Offering free membership and unrestricted messaging for older men to find new contact and friends with their admirers - including a Travel and Resort centre.
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Unterkünfte in der Zugspitzregion, Ferienwohnungen in Garmisch, Mittenwald, Oberammergau. Webcams Bayern.
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Photos Gratos - Des centaines de photos chaudes gratuites classées par thèmes
Des galeries de photos torrides gratuites classées par genre et renouvelées régulièrement
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X-Sportives - Des photos de belles sportives sexy et souvent dénudées
Une sélection de photos gratuites de belles sportives, Anna, Martina, Mia, Barbara, Nathalie, Vénus, Séréna et d'autres ...
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Webcam Music Lessons for the World!
I teach BLUEGRASS, OLD-TIME. FOLK, COUNTRY AND JAZZ over the internet using webconference. All levels taught and total beginners always welcome. Think you are too old....too young....too busy to learn? Don't know where to start? I can help for more info go to my website www.musiclessonsource.com
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Snow webcams
Webcams for your wintersport trip
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Live Cams On Line! A Live SexCam And Live Chat Directory
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Webcam-Plaza
A great Webcam directory with many cams all over the World.
http://www.webcam-Plaza.com/

webcams am bodensee
Webcams rund um den bodensee
http://www.bodenseecam.com

Chuck & Tessa Balkon
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http://www.chuckandtessa.net/

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aktuelles Wetter aus Ennepetal, Statistiken und Rekorde der letzten Wochen, Monate und Jahre. Webcambilder und Live-Stream aus Ennepetal.
http://www.wetterstation-ennepetal.de/

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one of most famous beaches in rimini, italy. webcam available
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Control a scanner or camera from .NET, VB, Delphi, web.
Add ability to work with scanner or camera from your application. You can fully control an image acquisition process, use an automatic document feeder, clean up images using noise removal, auto border crop, blank page detection, save acquired images to disk or SQL server, upload images onto Web or FTP server.
http://www.vintasoft.com/

Body Rockin
Free models photo's, and free daily new photo's, live chat and entertainment links to the hottest models and websites, shopping,web design and resources.
http://www.body-rockin.com/

Lovebase.org site de rencontres coquines ou sérieuses
Site de rencontres gratuit à vie après paiement du droit d'entrée. Photos de femmes, de couples et d'hommes nus à disposition de nos membres. annonces échangistes, vidéos sexy, chat video avec webcam... bref, de nombreux services à découvrir.
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Homogay - des hommes pour les hommes
Le monde masculin des sens - des hommes qui aiment les hommes - nombreuses photos gratuites
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Kontaktanzeigen
Kostenlose Singles Foto Kontaktanzeigen und Partnersuche, chatten mit webcam video Profile. Flirt Chat und Singlebörse zum Flirten verlieben
http://www.singles-4you.de/

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Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
The vOICe seeing-with-sound technology translates images from a camera into sounds that you hear via your stereo headphones, thus targetting sensory substitution applications for the totally blind, and even synthetic vision. Some blind people wear it daily with a wearable setup to see their environment as they go around, while other blind people (blind from birth) use it to experience for the very first time what vision is like.
http://www.seeingwithsound.com

Asiatiques et plaisirs orientaux - Images de l'érotisme
Asiatiques torrides et eduquees pour le plaisir des sens, nombreuses photos gratuites
http://www.asiabitchs.com/

Annuaire Luxure pour tous
Annuaire de sites réservés strictement aux adultes - Pour les internautes et les webmasters du X
http://www.luxurepourtous.com/

Michael's Homepage
A personal page with local and personal information, a webcam site of Bremerhaven and some specials more...
http://www.m-peace.de/

Derbrill Multimedia
Small german multimedia agency. Developers of well known utilities like uGrabit and the very popular ArcadeEngine Add-on for Revolution. You also find a set of free tutorials here.
http://www.derbrill.de/

Mallorca from A2ZMallorca
Mallorca, Majorca, local and tourist guide, contains map, news, weather, live webcam, fiestas, history etc, also contains an a2z guide to businesses and property for sale!
http://www.a2zmallorca.com/

Liesel's Easel
The ridiculously amusing personal website of Liesel -- graphic artist, mom, and cat-barf stain scrubber. Pretty much in that order.
http://www.liesel.com/

Abc des sites pour adultes
Sélection des meilleurs sites pour adultes, pour choisir, pour le plaisir
http://www.avecplaisir.biz/

old Lille - France
beautifull city nord of France
http://www.vieuxlille.com/

Anna et Martina - Des joueuses de tennis de c
De belles photos d'Anna Kournikova et de Martina Hingis, très sexy !
http://www.anna-martina.com/

Coolboards.it - Skateboard Snowboard Surf
news curiosità mercatino dell'usato previsioni meteo neve e onde tutti i tricks tanti filmati e foto da scaricare dal mondo dello skateboard, dello snowboard e del surf da onda
http://www.coolboards.it/

The Scotto Grotto
Website containing a long running and popular journal, webcam, games page and more!
http://www.scottobear.com/

House Marathia and the island Zakynthos
the first webcam from zakynthos - zante
http://www.1.webcam.zakynthos.at

EarthCam
Webcam network.
http://www.earthcam.com/

WebCam Central
Cross-indexed listing of thousands of webcam sites on the Internet.
http://www.camcentral.com

WebCam World
Portal site to internet WebCams, featuring many services such as a WebRing, free email, and online store.
http://www.webcamworld.com/

WebCam.com
Webcam directory, store, articles about running webcams, and message board.
http://webcam.com/

Webcam Index
Searchable index of webcams listed by country.
http://www.webcam-index.com/