"Living in a rural area, I don't get to participate in the urban holiday light extravaganza," said Hammond. "I always wanted to be part of a community holiday lights display and thought this technology would be a great way to interact with people near and far. I love that people are able to see and customize my holiday lights."

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[endif]Hammond says that people in Colorado, Germany, China and Australia have all logged on to control his lights. The first evening the lights were on, he had over 800 changes after sending just one Facebook post about the website.