Stickam.com, a social networking site that offers a combinative experience with chat, MySpace-ish profile features, and YouTube quality live webcam feeds, photos, and user-generated video, announced today the beta launch of PayPerLive, a platform allowing Stickam users to charge viewers for access to their webcam feeds.

Famed podcaster Leo Laporte is often featured on Stickam, along with Danny Bonnaduce, Tila Tequila, American Idol’s early-ousted Danny Noriega, and Chris Crocker, of leave-Britney-alone YouTube fame.

In the spirit of user-generated mania, though, Stickam is not limited to the temporarily or quasi-famous; anybody can have their very own live show, including any one of a number of young girls who have already trademarked their on-cam names by the age of 14.

And now, thanks to PayPerLive, they can make money, too. Stickam sees lots of different kinds of professionals using the service once out of beta, including comedians, consultants, bands, alumni associations, teachers and fundraisers. There are probably other professions that could use it, but I can’t think of any either.

"We are excited to allow groups and individuals to leverage our live streaming platform to host fun and informative events," said Steven Fruchter*, Stickam.com CEO, in a statement.

Stickam performers can set the price for access to their shows, payable via PayPal, and Stickam, as their digital agent, takes a 25 percent cut.

And that’s totally pimp right? That is the slang for cool these days, correct? Yeah, totally pimp.

*. . .Never mind. Too easy.     
 

Fans of Laporte’s show noted last month how the host lamented the quality of video online as a reason why TWiT stuck with the audio format for three years. Laporte said in May issues with audio and video quality were disappointing up to that time.

Since then, TWiT hooked up with Stickam to handle Laporte’s embracing of video. TWiT Live opted to go all-in with Stickam, as a month of videos drew a daily audience of 400,000 and some 3 million live views of the program.

Stickam launched as a social media site, enabling people to share video, audio, and image files. Plenty of widely-read bloggers in the niche picked up on Stickam and raved about the service.

Today, Stickam announced its high-definition availability, a factor they noted as a reason Laporte opted to keep TWiT Live available through the site. The show broadcasts five times a week.

Stickam may want to address any concerns Laporte still has about chat on Stickam. At the TWiT Live FAQ we found this entry:

Stickam chat sucks!

Yeah, we agree. The IRC channels are much more civilized. Leo has put in several feature requests to Stickam about their chat (particularly, turning off join/leave messages).

TWiT Live airs each day except Mondays and Fridays.