Hey all, just wanted to send all of my readers a Happy New Year wish. A lot of things brewing in the pot right now, this site will probably change direction next year. It might not even be a blog anymore.

Well that’s all for now. See you in 2009!

Sponsored Review.

YouLiveSee is an interactive portal where you can create your own webcam portal. Basically what the site allows you to do is to set up a channel to broadcast yourself via your webcam.

From the outset the site looks very bare and offers little in terms of features. Maybe that was the intention of the owners of the site? If they want to be able to compete with similar services that are being offered right now they have a lot of work to be done.

First of all a better layout would not hurt. Social bookmarking features, a more interactive call to sign up for their service by showcasing the benefits right away would immensely help as well. The member profile pages could use a face lift as well.

I registered on the site to check out how it works. Basically you create a channel/topic of your choosing and decide if you want to just let certain users or everyone see and/or hear you. Or you can just have them see/hear you. Like any normal webcast. You can also make it public or private.

Quite a few services like YouLiveSee have cropped up on the web, most of which are successful. If they want to be able to make a difference in their service I suggest a serious overhaul in their website structure. The developers of this site have a good product, they just need to give it the “oomph” factor.