Livelook.tv Blog

Thanks to the Mad Gringo for Go Slow award nomination and the Mad Gringo t-shirt. Livelook is a great way to tune in to those far away places you would love to visit.  A set of live images is a lot more interesting to me than a simple weather forecast.

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Switzerland is a beautiful country and the Swiss are proud to show it off with scenic webcams in almost every village and on many mountain peaks. Switzerland seems to have the highest concentration of live scenic webcams per square Km of anywhere in the world. From multiple views of the Matterhorn to scenic mountaintop panoramas, Switzerland has some great webcams.

You can locate and enjoy the best Swiss cams at Livelook or some of the excellent Switzerland specific webcam sites.

SwissWebCams.ch – The internet portal for webcams from Switzerland.

The Marina Phuket Resort in Phuket, Thailand has created a very nice live streaming webcam view of Karon beach. The view makes sure makes me want to visit the resort and Phuket. Thanks to Marina Phuket for providing a live view.

Click here to view other webcams of Thailand.

The first release of Livelook back in October 2006 was designed as an online webcam viewer. I had lots of bookmarks for webcams but wanted a site where I could view them all quickly from any computer. Webcam Watcher from Beausoft was an inspiration but as a Windows application it had some problems. No viewing from other computers, very slow with lots of cams, no sharing of cams, only runs on Windows, etc. Airliners.net was another inspiration. The ability for members to upload a photo, share it with the group, rate the photos and click for similar photos was something missing from webcams. So Livelook was created as a web based platform to store and organize webcam images.

My Livelook is that original feature and it’s still a great way to organize and view your favorite webcams. You can create groups of cams, select the image size in the layout options, add new cams easily and set cams as shared. The sharing option is leveraged in the later search features so any visitor can search for cams that you’ve added and shared. The edit mode of a cam shows similar cam URLs – this is helpful if your link is out of date but someone else in the database has already updated the link.

The search results in Livelook also have a nice feature where you get an option to add cams found by other users to your My Livelook page. This feature is a great way to quickly add interesting live cams to your favorites. It’s also possible to rate each cam from when saving to My Livelook and the ratings will help other users find high quality and interesting cams.

Please post a comment or drop us a line from the contact page with any feedback or suggestions for My Livelook.