brunchstorm

We are all going after different parts of the process. For us it was key to make connecting as easy as possible. Another good toolkit like this is http://noam.io/

They all have different pros and cons. We use Spacebrew a lot at meetups or hackathons where people have existing projects that they'd like to connect, but don't want to have to rewrite them. They can usually find (or we have even had people quickly write) a library for their environment since it is a very simple protocol and they are then on the Spacebrew network ready to publish or subscribe to data.

One of the other contributors to Spacebrew here. Let us know if you have any questions.

Many awesome people on the internets make Spacebrew possible. All of the code is open source and can be found at https://github.com/Spacebrew

Let us know how it works for your projects, we'd love feedback and people's experiences getting started.

You could create an NPAPI plugin. That would be annoying for you and users. You could use flash. Or you could wait for the HTML5 Device Capture API (or whatever it becomes... http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/). It doesn't look like it is happening anytime soon though.