Just as Twitter is theoretically an important tool for public discourse but is actually a forum for weirdos to shout at famous people, it's easy to see Meerkat turning into a home for dingbats and wingnuts, where attention-seeking teenagers and racists can blast their nonsense to a minuscule but dedicated audience, webcam-style.
Although WSR Macros with a dedicated headset and a webcam's built-in mic both work, the dedicated headset performs much better.
According to George Buce, who runs a site dedicated to cataloging all existing home-based webcams, webcams fulfill a basic human curiosity to see and be seen.
The museum dedicated to Andy Warhol is broadcasting a live webcam feed from his grave in Pittsburgh, US, to mark what would have been the artist's 85th birthday.
Here I was at Loch Ness, where all manner of science stuff, webcams and sonar surveys and whatnot are dedicated to discovering whether the Loch Ness monster exists.
Yahoo Live allows anyone with a webcam to stream live video of themselves to a dedicated site.
Or, you can avoid dedicating a computer and webcam to the baby and simply get a wireless IP video camera with audio for around $100, then just log on to the camera using the monitoring program that will come with it.
On Monday The Huffington Post launched its newest project, HuffPost Live, a streaming video network dedicated to engaging in real time with community members around the world via webcam.
A new dedicated module entitled "My Attention and Safety Behaviours Experiment" guides the patient through a series of brief webcam link-ups with another person.
The machine is not up to much for playing games, but then a dedicated games console beats most computers when it comes to games anyway.The Acer has a built-in webcam, which makes it ideal for video-calling services such as Skype.
