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naughtyweb - 6:39 pm on Sep 19, 2008 (gmt 0)


The usual way is to have a webcam software that take screenshots from your office at regular intervals (5 seconds, for example). Those screenshots are automatically uploaded to a server (or the server is run within the software itself).

Then you create a webpage which gets the JPG and refresh automatically each 5 seconds. Every user who visits the page will see autorefreshing the image, so it seems a real time flow.

Thats the basic way. A more sophisticated method is using a service like Ustream or Mogulus which allows you to create a real time video flow.


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