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CommonsCamCommonsCamAncient Wisdom Productions and the Ithaca Downtown Partnership to announced the introduction of the new CommonsCam, a webcam located on the third floor of Ancient Wisdom's downtown offices, offering a 24 hour, real time view of the Ithaca Commons. The camera is centered on the Bernie Milton Pavilion, and it is the only webcam to offer this view. Images from this webcam update every fifteen seconds, twenty-four hours a day, and are available to the general public at www.downtownithaca.com (under "Enjoy Ithaca"), as well as at www.exploreithaca.com.

 WebCams are small digital cameras that provide a live stream of images to visitors of a website. This camera was set up on January 12th, 2007. It's a Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX, attached via USB to a PC running Windows XP. A piece of software called TinCam, grabs a 640 x 480 pixel image from the webcam every 15 seconds and uploads the image to our main server.

Stephanie Vann, Marketing Director for the Ithaca Downtown Partnership, hopes to add more webcams Downtown. "It's pretty cool to be able to check the weather, look for familiar faces on the Commons, and just see what's going on Downtown at any given time. It gives people a vicarious experience of Downtown, especially in the cold weather. Once warmer weather arrives, we hope viewers will see musicians setting up for a concert, or a catch a festival in progress, and then come on down to join the fun."

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