Stickam is social networking site featuring user-submitted pictures, audio, video, and live web cam chat. Their service also allows you to embed streaming video, slide shows, music , and live video chat on your personal blog or website.
Pornography Concerns
On July 11, 2007, The New York Times published an article that revealed the company behind Stickam also runs pornography web sites. In fact many of these adult websites use the exact same technology that powers Stickam. While they share office space, the websites themselves have no public connection to one another.
Stickam News and Articles
- Google News: Stickam
- New York Times: Accuser Says Web Site for Teenagers Has X-Rated Link (2007)
- According a former vice president, Advanced Video Communications (Stickam's parent company) is owned and managed by Wataru Takahashi who, in turn, owns a vast network of webcam-based pornography websites. The technology used on Stickam is the same technology driving the pornographic websites.
- Linux Mag: Stickam.com is the First LIVE Social Networking Website to Implement OpenSocial (2007)
- Los Angeles Times: Stickam: A window into anyone's world (2007)
- New York Times: Young Turn to Web Sites Without Rules (2007)
- International Herald Tribune: Video sharing sites get more daring (2007)
- News Blaze: Stickam.com's New Online Web Tool Raises the Bar (2006)