The Meerkat Map

Links to alive video streams on Periscope occasionally pop-up on my Twitter wall. However past times the fourth dimension I acquire or so to clicking on the links the streams are e'er over. I lead keep thus genuinely never seen a alive Periscope video broadcast.

I sympathise that Periscope genuinely has a map of currently alive streams on its iOS app. That would endure dandy if I genuinely owned an iOS device. I can't aid thinking that at that topographic point must endure many people similar me who would endure tempted to download a Periscope app if Periscope genuinely had to a greater extent than of a spider web presence.

This seems to endure a lesson learnt past times ane of Periscope's master copy competitors, Meerkat. The Meerkat spider web homepage provides a listing of currently alive streams. There is too the MeerkatMap, created amongst the Meerkat API.

The MeerkatMap is a dandy means to honour alive video streams past times location. Markers on the map present the electrical flow alive streams in addition to y'all tin click-through to lookout whatever broadcast alive on the Meerkat website. The map sidebar too includes a listing & links to alive video streams amongst no place data.

Revealing the place of alive Meerkat streams apparently has some privacy issues. I don't know if the MeerkatMap has taken whatever steps to root the exact place of the streams beingness shown. However if y'all are a Meerkat user in addition to then y'all mightiness desire to suit your place settings inwards the app itself.