Livelook.tv Blog

WeatherBonk.com was an early pioneer mashing up weather data with geolocated webcams.  

The site was launched in 2005 and was quietly acquired by The Weather Channel in 2007.   It’s not fully integrated with TWC site but you can often see the webcams featured on-air.  I’d guess they still have an issue using copyrighted webcam images without explicit permission.   It’s an interesting problem that I’ve thought about a lot with Livelook.tv.  It’s a great resource to locate and mashup webcam image data with other web information, but in the end who owns the images?   Weather Bonk must have been able to show the value of the mashup concept because it doesn’t seem like they had any other unique intellectual property or assets.   Many of the webcam views on Weatherbonk seem to come from the weatherbug API.  The Weather Channel should buy Weatherbug.com next if they really want their own proprietary webcam network.  

Congratulations to the Weatherbonk team.

I was recently checking out some Colorado ski cams in My Livelook and found some beautiful sunny views.  Arapahoe Basin has some new cameras with high quality images.  I really like the view from the top at snow plume refuge.  

Aspen Highlands is also looking great with lots of snow and sunny skies.  I wish they had a better way to directly access a preview image instead of forcing everyone to go to their site to view it.