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Watch One World Trade Center Rise from the Ashes Beam by Beam (gawker.com)
EarthCam has been monitoring the construction of One World Trade Center (BKA the Freedom Tower) since day one: October 18th, 2004. (Technically, the cornerstone ceremony took place July 4, 2004, and construction didn't begin in earnest until 2006.)  more... 5/1/2012

Ditto lets you try on glasses via webcam (blog.sfgate.com)
Buying glasses online has gotten a popularity boost in the last year or two, thanks to companies like Warby Parker and Mezzmer offering frames for under $100 and options to try up to five pairs at home free of charge. Now Bay Area startup Ditto is bringing a new option to the online eyewear landscape that’s not only innovative in its use of technology, but is also pretty entertaining.  more... 5/1/2012

Peregrine chicks are webcam stars (thisisnottingham.co.uk)
FOUR rare peregrine chicks hatched at Nottingham Trent University live on the internet. A webcam next to their nest on the university's Newton Building allowed thousands of people to watch the chicks' first moments. Three of the birds hatched on April 21 and 22 with the last egg hatching on Monday, April 23. The webcam gives a bird's-eye view of the nest and chicks and 260,000 people have already watched the nest during the past six weeks.  more... 5/1/2012

Stunning Time-Lapse of One World Trade Center Construction (gizmodo.com)
This remarkable footage of One World Trade Center is a moving document of the colossal construction endeavor. Work on the mammoth building began nearly six years ago. The construction images were captured by EarthCam, which operates a network of webcams in iconic locations all over the world. One World Trade Center is scheduled to top out at 1,776 feet next month. Construction will be completed in December, and the building will open in the spring of next year.   more... 4/26/2012

New time-lapse video shows Freedom Tower built at Ground Zero in two minutes (dailymail.co.uk)
A new two-minute time-lapse video released by the international webcam technology company EarthCam shows One World Trade Center soaring into the Lower Manhattan sky - a process that, in reality, has taken more than six years. The video, posted by ABC News, shows the structure rising from the ground up, floors by floor, its exterior covered with shiny glass panes. The release of the video comes just days before the glass-and-steel structure, also known as Freedom Tower, is expected to once again surpass the height of the Empire State Building, which stands at 1,545 feet, becoming the tallest building in Manhattan and one of the tallest in the world.  more... 4/26/2012

As the World Trade Center Approaches Tallest-Building-In-New-York Status, Watch It Rise in About a M (observer.com)
Everyone has been eagerly awaiting the topping out of 1 World Trade Center. While that milestone is still a few weeks or months away, as early as next week, the SOM-designed, Port Authority-built tower will surpass the Empire State Building as the tallest in the city. In honor of that occasion, Earthcam, which has been monitoring the site with great fervor, put together a timelapse of the tower’s rise. It is an amazing site to behold, if also a troubling one—how did it take eight years for a tower, even one of this magnitude, to rise? (Well, we sort of know why. Still, it took half as long for the twice-as-tall Burj Khalifa, though that is also another story of immigrant labor and infinite money.)  more... 4/26/2012

Time-Lapse Video Shows 6-Year One World Trade Construction (classichitsandoldies.com)
In a matter of days, One World Trade Center could be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of the tallest in the world. The building is expected to be taller than New York’s iconic Empire State Building, which currently rises 1,250 feet to the 102nd-floor observation deck. One World Trade is being built on the site of the original World Trade Center towers — or Twin Towers. They were the tallest buildings in the city, but were destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in which an estimated 3,000 people were killed. The progression of construction on One World Trade can be seen in a two-minute, time-lapse video from EarthCam, the international webcam technology company.  more... 4/26/2012

Time-Lapse Video Shows One World Trade Construction; Tower Could Surpass Empire State Building in He (abcnews.go.com)
In a matter of days, One World Trade Center could be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of the tallest in the world. The building is expected to be taller than New York’s iconic Empire State Building, which currently rises 1,250 feet to the 102nd floor observation deck. One World Trade is being built on the site of the original World Trade Center towers – or Twin Towers. They were the tallest buildings in the city, but were destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in which an estimated 3,000 people were killed.  more... 4/26/2012

One World Trade construction reaching new heights (abclocal.go.com)
In a matter of days, One World Trade Center could be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of the tallest in the world. The building is expected to be taller than New York's iconic Empire State Building, which currently rises 1,250 feet to the 102nd floor observation deck. One World Trade is being built on the site of the original World Trade Center towers - or Twin Towers. They were the tallest buildings in the city, but were destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, in which an estimated 3,000 people were killed.  more... 4/26/2012

Webcam Connects Newborn With Deployed Dad (msnbc.msn.com)
Raelyn Absmeier was born ten weeks early, a fragile two pounds 13 ounces. Doctors said the road ahead for her looks good but it will be a long road. Raelyn will likely be at St. Jude Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for a couple of months. As she grows, her mother can only touch her occasionally. But her father, Jacob Absmeir, cannot touch her at all. He’s serving in Afghanistan, and was shipped out from Fort Collins, Colo., in March, before his daughter was born. But even a world away, he can see her by logging on to his computer.  more... 4/23/2012

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