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So it’s been forever since I’ve posted on this Webcams Blog. Resolution for 2007 is to ramp this back up with some quality posts and content.

Anyways, was browsing some webcams news and came across two somewhat related and interesting news stories on webcams.

The first one is about how Texas is spending some money setting up webcams to monitor it’s border, and although it’s only generated a handful of arrests they’re looking at expanding the effort. This will be an interesting issue to watch.

The other story I ran across that I thought was blog-worthy is one about a Brazilian man traveling in Germany that via his phone and home webcam (security) system averted his home from being burglarized.

I have mixed feelings about the use of webcams becoming more and more predominant. Although it’s nice to see them assisting in catching criminals, it’s very invasive in the way of presupposing crime is going to happen anywhere. I just never expected big brother or someone else to be watching our every move. It seems so spooky and very 1984′ish.

Well that’s all for now, take care and have a very Happy New Year! …and stay tuned we’ll keep this place updated a bit more often…

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I figured it’s been a bit since I’ve posted. Here’s a webcam news item I stumbled across today.

TechWeb via Yahoo! News Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:10:00 GMT
Logitech and Creative, which together own about three-quarters of the Webcam market, joined Skype on Thursday to co-market the Luxembourg-based VoIP developer’s newest software with their cameras and headsets.
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Well folks, one of the last free open communities online for chatting and playing around on webcam has closed ’some’ of it’s doors.

Yahoo bowed to pressure from advertisers and a law suit in regards to some VERY disturbing chat rooms. The topics were so disgusting I won’t post them here, but the jist of it was in relationship to young people getting together with adults for inappropriate behavior And that’s putting it very mildly.

I’m not shocked that they eventually got sued for this problem, as it’s been a plague to their chat portal for years, but what I am shocked about is that they didn’t merely use a word/phrase filter list to ban all users from creating rooms with those horrid titles and topics. Also, last time I checked yahoo made a few bucks, why couldn’t they simply hire or outsource a few posisitions to moderate their rooms? It sure could use it even now.

Although the obvious chat spam is annoying yahoo chat and their webcams are really one of the nicest out there, if you use a program (3rd party yahoo chat client) you can simply put all the ‘ chat bots ‘ on ignore and it allows you to find other like minded adults to chat with about all sorts of topics from racey to business to religion.

The regular rooms are harder to find people in, as the spam is a little nuts, but they are still useful. I’m guessing a flock of chatters will leave yahoo now and find other places to go like paltalk.com etc…

If any of you know of other good chat portals, please drop a comment on this post, I’d love to go check them out and do an honest review.

Well that’s all for today’s update, take care and…

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