Last week, when a sibling of a friend died of colon cancer, I went to the wake at the Paco church to pay my respects. My friend told me one one of their sister from the States can’t make it and wished there’s a way they can do to ease the disappointment.
I said I can bring my laptop and use the built-in webcam to do a YM video conference. I hooked up my phone to Smart 3G and connect it to my laptop via bluetooth and started.
So there we were, moving the laptop around to broadcast the video taken from the webcam while other relatives huddle around to talk to the other party in the US.
I thought this was cool and wondered why chapels haven’t thought of this yet.
Apparently, there’s already one doing this — the St. Peter Life Plan and Chapels have been offering live webcam broadcasts on most of their chapels nationwide.
The e-Burial Online Viewing service provides multiple webcams to St. Peter Memorial Chapels from Quezon City to Bacolod, Cebu, Iloilo, Ormoc, Tacloban, Tagbilaran, down to Butuan, Digos, and General Santos.
Clients are given an account so they can login to the site and view the webcams online.
{hat tip: tech soulja}
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Thanks, Abe,
As usual you are way more atop the news here than most. I never saw any write-up on thisin the ‘old media’.
I also recently attended the furenrl of a favorite tita at St. Peters, QC but saw no mention of this service … clearly it hadn’t gotten down to the loacal management level. The family would have availed of the service in a haetbeat, there were several breaved neices overseas and a couple relatives here in the Philippines who could not travel for health reasons. A good service and a small profit maker, so that is win-win.
Good that you pointed out YM’s video features. For some reason Yahoo! has drifted from some people’s minds, but their messenger services are fantastic for keeping families in touch … no special web sites needed and the service even works (slow, but still works) over dial-up … you cna still include family members who don’t have broadband.