[kleinsch]

The easiest way to get attention from the media is by creating something that the media is interested in. Internet media types love the idea of citizen journalists submitting live video from breaking events, so it's an appealing angle for them to write about. The story (what Meerkat could do) is a lot more exciting than the current reality (how many people are _actually_ using Meerkat).

[notahacker]

Like Twitter, it's a not-especially-good idea that's one major celebrity thinking it's cool or a couple of major livestreamed incidents away from being potentially pretty big. Integration with existing social networks is going to be the key bit for regular users though, as the average person wants to passively showcase the cool thing they're doing to their friends rather than random members of the public.

It's not a hugely novel idea though; a couple of days ago we had an article on the first girl to lifestream her life, in 1996.