Pipeline received a message from fellow twitterer Robin Parker about a nice Portland interactive Thanksgiving Day experience. You can read a nice break down of what happens at Mental Floss here.
From Robin:
Some friends and I are doing a collaborative live Thanksgiving website for the second year in a row, and we’d like our fellow Portlanders to join the fun online! http://TurkeyTracker.com
We use Ustream, Flickr and Twitter to create an interactive webcast of our turkey smoking. We have a camera (probably 2 this year) trained on the smoker, which broadcasts all day. We take pictures throughout the cooking process and post those as we take them, alongside a twitter feed that includes automatic updates from a USB thermometer rig (which got mentioned on MAKE, actually! ).
Because a big part of our goal is to connect with family and friends who are also enjoying the holiday, we have chat (via Ustream) and a Flickr pool that others can post photos to, which are then randomly cycled for display on the site. We’ll also be reading people’s Thanksgiving “Thank You’s” live when they direct message them to us on Twitter!
Last year, we had 50-60 viewers, based entirely on word of mouth, this year we’re doing some more promotion, and hope to have a virtual Thanksgiving Day with hundreds of celebrants.
Links:
- Main Website: http://turkeytracker.com
- Our behind the scenes blog: http://blog.turkeytracker.com
- Invitation for the world to Join Us (also has FAQ): http://turkeytracker.com/joinus
Starts at 9am, Dinner is late afternoon
December 1, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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