Livecasting, Mobile Streaming

I just came across a couple of websites, such as justin.tv, livecast.com, mogulus.com and others with weired names. Once on the websites I desperately look for the "about" button potentially explaining what all these websites are about? I just haven t got it, but people happen to be fascinated of livecasting for quite a while:

1994 Steve Mann -
First person to transmitted his everyday life 24/7.

1996 Jennifer Ringley
JenniCAM—subtitled "life, online"—was a popular website from April 1996 until the end of 2003.
Ringley's innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily activities

1999 Lisa Batey
Started on HereAndNow.net streaming 24/7 in 1999, continuing into 2001.

1999 Josh Harris
"We Live In Public" [10] was a 24/7 Internet conceptual art experiment created in December 1999. With a format similar to TV‘s Big Brother.

2000 DotComGuy
Combined live streaming with social networking to assist the visually challenged.

2002 Joi Ito
First to do web publishing from a mobile device.

2004 Gordon Bell
MyLifeByts , an experiment in digital storage of a person's lifetime, including full-text search, text/audio annotations and hyperlinks.

2004 Justin Kahn
Justin.tv, a platform for live video streaming online

2007 Justine Ezarik
Expansion of justin.tv, Justine Ezarik took a different approach, often aiming the camera at herself

What do people do with all these wastes of giga-bytes?

I must confess: it's quite fascinating seeing qik.com working on my mobile phone streaming live...when...umh...I m doing exciting things... such as reading a newspaper:

But who will ever watch this? Not even myself. But it's fascinating indeed seeing working and perhaps that's already enough. Busines case is old thinking.

Here some publications I found interesting:

1. Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on the Web, Mohammad Mannan
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367564

2. User generated content (UGC): trade mark and copyright infringement issues, Dawn Osborne
http://jiplp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jpn120

3. Bubble 2.0: Online Organized Critique of Web 2.0 D, Travers Scott, MIT
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/papers/TraversScott.pdf

4. Zync: the design of synchronized video sharing, Yiming Liu, Yahoo!, Berkeley, CA
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389924

5. Social Online Video Experience,JD Weisz
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jweisz/thesis/jweisz_proposal.pdf

6. Lifesampler: enabling conversational video documentary, Ryan P. Spicer
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1358628.1358824

7. Mainstream Media Meets Citizen Journalism: In Search of a New Model, R. Goh
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/tufts-thesis/tufts-thesis.pdf

8. Watch What I Watch,David A. Shamma
http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/wpcontent/uploads/2007/07/shamma2007.pdf

9. Streaming live media over a peer-to-peer network, H Deshpande
http://eris.prakinf.tuilmenau.de/res/papers/coopStreaming/BWStrmLiveMediaStanford.pdf