One of the first things I ever saw on the internet that utterly entranced me was a webcam from a yellow cab in New York. There I was, sat in my Brixton bedroom late in the evening, watching the sun set between blocks as the cab-driver zig-zagged across the upper west side (possibly) . With my piddly dial-up connection the screen would refresh every 10 seconds or so, but I watched completely captivated for ages (and this was on a pay-per-minute tariff!)
I remembered this, because I’ve just had the same feeling watching flickrvision, a map of the world which shows flickr photos as their uploaded.
As Rob Manuel on the B3ta newsletter says, ‘this is exactly what it must be like to be God’.
3 responses so far ↓
1 arseblogger // May 18, 2007 at 4:07 pm
That is cool. I uploaded a pic then sat there for 20 minutes waiting for it to come up. But it never did
2 Steve // May 18, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I was going to try that!
Maybe they have a ‘drunk irishman in a ditch’ filter?
3 arseblogger // May 19, 2007 at 10:09 am
I’m perfectly capable of being drunk at home, thank you very much.
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