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Global News – Hyper-Local News – Toss Your TVs

"LiveNewsCameras.com brings together the resources of journalists around the world and makes live streaming video easy to find and use on your computer.

As of today, there are nearly 150 channels of live streaming video here – that number is growing every day.

You can preview what is on any given stream just by leaving the site open on your desktop – many of the thumbnail images will refresh automatically every minute or so.

We’ve also got a live moderator to help along the process – that’s the video window on the upper right side of the screen. The moderator is not available 24/7 yet but we are hoping to offer that sometime soon."

I discovered LiveNewsCameras.com while watching yesterday’s episode of Attack Of The Show on G4 TechTV. While the idea has probably been done before, my gut tells me that this is more of an idea whose time has come. All newspaper and TV station websites are banking on applications like Web video to drive their next-generation of advertising, so it was only a matter of time before journalists got together, grabbed all of the local streams of live TV and aggregated it here – in one place – for your viewing pleasure.

This makes Wolf Blitzer‘s The Situation Room on CNN look like the playroom.

Beyond the obvious appeal, I also like how this site goes hyperlocal (enabling to choose whichever community you like), but together offers massive global perspective. I can’t wait to flip LiveNewsCameras.com on when breaking news hits – just to see who covers what (and from what angle).

Marketers, you have been warned. We’re empowering people and making them smarter than ever. How would your messages hold up in a place like LiveNewsCameras.com?

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.