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We have recently added a second StreamdaysDIRECT webcam at the famous Royal Westmoreland Golf club on the west coast of Barbados.

Following the success of the first webcam which overlooks the lush greens of the championship course, we now host another camera which offers views of Mullins Beach in the parish of St Peter.

Along with a dip in the Carribean Sea beachgoers can hire jet skis, enjoy the famous sunset and friendly waiter service.

It’s a superb location for a webcam which we are sure you will be visiting time and again!

For more information on our Streamdays Webcam Hosting please see our website www.streamdays.com or call 0151 633 2111 to discuss your professional or business webcam requirements in detail.

Network Webcams latest StreamdaysTRUESTREAM camera went live last night in the Glasgow Barber Shop of Paul Evangelista.

Evangelista’s is famous the world over for men’s barbering and now for pioneering online barbering.

View the live stream from Evangelista’s in Glasgow.

Once again, a Streamdays Webcam Hosting customer has made it into Earthcam’s global Top 25 webcams for the year. A regular fixture in the world of webcams this award is judged by celebrities and other luminaries of the webcam industry.

Judges this time included Michael Bay (Director of movie Transformers) and Lisa Hungness (WildCam Program, National Geographic Society).

This year our customer Atlante Star Hotel wins a placing for their webcam overlooking Vatican City in Rome, Italy.

Well done Atlante Star Hotel!

Network Webcams Limited are proud to announce the launch of four new Streamdays Webcam Hosting products. Each Streamdays variant fulfils different requirements in a webcam system, but all offer hassle free, off-the-shelf webcam hosting.

These variants are as follows:

StreamdaysDIRECT - Simple and reliable business-class webcam hosting.

StreamdaysRELAY - High capacity webcam hosting for busy and popular websites.

StreamdaysTRUESTREAM - Streaming video webcams with unique features.

StreamdaysFREE - a free viewer with the same features as StreamdaysDIRECT, but without a guaranteed service level and suitable for anyone with a supported IP camera.

Compare the four Streamdays packages and decide which is best for you or your business:

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The long-awaited first film in the His Dark Materials saga premieres tonight at the Odeon Cinema Leicester Square. Our Streamdays customer Radisson Hotels have a webcam perfectly located to allow you to follow the red carpet action as it happens.

Check out the Leicester Square Film Premiere webcam here >>

Captain Jack Sparrow may not be around any more but the Black Pearl, or rather the Bounty, the ship cast as The Black Pearl in Pirate’s of the Caribbean, has arrived in Torquay for a short stay and can be viewed on the StreamdaysFREE webcam set up by the Torbay Hospitality Association overlooking Torquay Marina.

Get a look in now because it won’t be there for long.

View the Black Pearl on webcam.

Now that the Edinburgh Military Tattoo is well under way, the Streamdays Tattoo Webcam has been experiencing large surges in visitor numbers just prior to show time. Whilst many opt to view the performances live at Edinburgh Castle, others prefer to watch the performances away from it (not least because tickets are like gold dust!).

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The stereotypical surfer dude has given way to determined and technologically aware individuals, male and female, who stops at nothing to catch the best waves.

Gone are the days when these guys wander down to the beach to “hopefully” catch a wave. They now use sophisticated equipment including IP technology, broadband services and weather data solutions to monitor the wave action.

Truly dedicated sports men and women, whose lives revolve around the ocean, work commitments, shopping or homework play second fiddle to surfing the waves.

Surf related websites like Wavewatch have become an integral part of everyday life. To outsiders they are full of statistical data which doesn’t mean very much, but to the avid surfer they are a direct connection to Mother Nature. Up to the minute weather information including swell heights, wind speeds, satellite imagery, isobars and water temperatures. Indeed, everything a surfer needs to catch the best barrels.

Our Streamdays service has become another important tool to the surfing fraternity. Our live uk webcams at Croyde Bay, Newquay and Cornwall have become extremely popular, and we fully expect this trend to continue.

If you have a surfcam and would like for it to be included on www.streamdays.com please contact us. We are soon to launch a free webcam hosting service which is aimed at making it simpler than ever to launch a professional interactive webcam on your website.

If you don’t already have a webcam, Streamdays offers a number of packages to get you started. Just give us a call on 0151 633 2111.

Other Surfing and Weather Data Providers:

Taking British surfing into the 21st Century (www.a1surf.com)
Connected to the wind (www.windfinder.com)
Know before you go (www.surfline.com)
Surf reports, forecasts and photos (www.magicseaweed.com)

In a bumper week or Streamdays Webcam Hosting we make another customer live at streamdays.com. Bank Ground, a B&B and self catering farmhouse sits right on Coniston Water in the Lake District in some truly stunning and awe-inspiring scenery.

Bank Ground and Coniston were also the setting for much of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, both the book and the film.

What would John and Susan Walker make of this?

Streamdays Webcam Hosting customer Radisson Edwardian Hotel London have gone live with their Leicester Square webcam overlooking London’s premier premiere hotspot, the Leicester Square Odeon Cinema.

Celebrity watching is now a doddle as webcam viewers can control the camera by pre-set views and choose from multiple zoomed-in positions on the red carpet trail.

Of course, the rest of Leicester Square is available to watch too. On premiere days this will be one busy camera.

Streamdays Webcam Hosting web servers are being given a real load test by the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project webcam. They’re almost too popular, but not so much that the tech heads at Network Webcams can’t keep the service running.

While many thousands of visitors to the project’s live webcam page have been watching the falcon family take turns incubating their 4 soon-to-hatch eggs, we’ve been dealing with the massive surge in bandwidth this has generated. It seems the cameras are so good anyone who sees them leaves them running all day long!

The large resolution live webcam images (704×576) give such clear pictures of the nest that viewers can watch every tiny detail of the falcons’ comings and goings.

This is the kind of project Streamdays Webcam Hosting is made for and we will be working with the Peregrine Project in the coming weeks and months to improve the service as far as we can.

Follow the birds’ progress on the Peregrine Blog.

The most northerly isles in Britain, Scotland’s Shetland Islands, now have three new webcams made possible through our Streamdays Webcam Hosting service.

The cameras show local landmarks and rugged costlines and can be viewed at www.visitshetland.com.

Alternatively, the Sumburgh Lighthouse webcam, the new Lerwick Harbour webcam and the indoor Sheltand Museum and Archives webcams can all be viewed and rated at www.streamdays.com along with live web cameras from many other Streamdays customers.

Streamdays Webcam Hosting customer Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project has seen its Falcon family lay 4 eggs in the period between 4th April to 11th April. Each new arrival was caught live on the Peregrine Falcon webcams installed on Derby Cathedral and hosted in Streamdays.com.

A pair of cameras monitor and record the incubating Falcon pair 24/7 helping the project keep a paternal eye on the growing family. We’re watching too, and can’t wait to meet the falcon chicks when they arrive.

We’re proud that we can help bring this natural wonder to the wider public and look forward to developing the cameras with the project.

In the meantime, falcon-watchers can follow the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Falcon Blog.

Our Streamdays Webcam Hosting service continues to go from strength to strength. One of its latest additions is the Gloucester Rugby webcam which shows their 75-year old stand at Kingsholm being demolished for replacement by a brand spanking new 17,000 seater stand just in time for the new season.

We wish them all the best with the development and for the coming season. Come on the reds!

It’s Springtime: the time of the year when the weather picks up (or just continues going crazy, thanks to climate change), the lambs are jumping and the thick layers start to come off. It’s a time when the English countryside comes into its own.

There’s now’t better than being outdoors in the country on a crisp, spring day and the new Streamdays webcam from Markwell Farm Cottages captures a little of that springtime spirit and the verve of a summer soon to return.

The webcam view is large and the details are clear; it’s one of the most scenic and picturesque webcams we’ve had the pleasure to supply and we hope it becomes as popular as it should be.

Forget your relaxation tapes and forget your reiki. This is what relaxation is all about.

The top 10 live web cameras on Streamdays.com as voted by you, the viewer in March 2007.

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Aberdeenshire’s Banff Harbour Webcam has gone live utilising Streamdays Webcam Hosting. A high-zoom PTZ was used to best capture the harbour and the surrounding areas.

We’re sure the North Sea and the North wind will give it a battering. As a weather cam this one is great and recreational mariners are advised to check the camera before venturing out of their cosy homes!

It looks mighty rough out there…

Winter will be leaving us soon (did it ever really arrive?) and what better way to see it out than to ski the French Alps, or even better, do it from the warmth and comfort of your own home?

The Ski La Source live webcam shows amazing views of Mont Blanc and the valleys and while there has been less slow this year than of late the skiing is good and the views remain spectacular.

This camera has been offline during the winter but has emerged from hibernation resplendent as a newborn and with crisp, clear images of some of the finest views in the Alps, is not to be missed.

One of the most spectacular views in Wales, and the UK is of Rhossili Beach and Bay on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea seen from the cliffs above the beach.

Now, with the help of the Streamdays Webcam Hosting service, The Wormshead Hotel have gone live with their advanced, interactive webcam view of this famous view.

View the Rhossili beach webcam feed on Streamdays.com or directly at the Wormshead Hotel website along with current weather information for the area.

Also on Streamdays.com you can view high definition satellite views of the beach and the Gower area showing exactly where the webcam is located and giving you a real sense of location when viewing the camera. It really is almost as good as being there.

The breathtaking view of Rhossili Beach on Gower Peninsula has made it into the ‘50 BEST VIEWS IN THE WORLD’. The worldwide contest was run by wine producers JACOB’S CREEK. We didn’t make that bit up.

Romance can sometimes be about spontaneity and throwing caution to the wind, and over the years places like Las Vegas and Gretna Green have been synonymous with just that.

Now, of course, marriage in famous wedding locations like Gretna is less about running away, crossing the border and getting hitched to your teenage sweetheart and more about simply providing an historic and memorable wedding experience. Still, there are those who will miss out on the experience of their loved ones’ magical day through simply not being able to be there, being in another country, or timezone.

IP cameras, as webcams, end all that. Now it is possible for any family member to be there and to feel part of the wedding ceremony. The live Streamdays webcam at Gretna’s Anvil Hall is showing that wedding on the web can be more inclusive than ever before.

View the Gretna wedding cam on streamdays.com or at Gretna Weddings.

Elopers beware: your families may just get in on the act after all!