Friday, February 08, 2008
Y! Live
Yahoo!'s new Y! Live just launched. Good title, sharp logo, attractive design, slick and smooth, but so far, when the web traffic gets heavy the fine functionality slows and, to borrow E.M. Forster's phrase, the machine stops. Surely it will repair itself. It can only go from beta to better.
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Yahoo!'s new Y! Live just launched. Good title, sharp logo, attractive design, slick and smooth, but so far, when the web traffic gets heavy the fine functionality slows and, to borrow E.M. Forster's phrase, the machine stops. Surely it will repair itself. It can only go from beta to better. Web-O-Vision
Webcams are being used in some unusual ways. Along with their CB radios, truckers have now added webcams, as evidenced by the several truckers on Camstreams, which also carries the Online Piano Bar from Florida. Tom Green's House Tonight combines celebrity guests with call-ins from viewers who have Skype and webcams. In the summer of 2007, Justin Shattuck set out across the USA, giving rides and taking people wherever they wanted to go. Viewers followed his journey via his webcam and also with a GPS unit showing his location as a moving dot on a Google map.
Here are services offering live, streaming web video:
BlogTV, "You bring the webcam, we bring the stage"
Camstreams, Easy Streaming from Sheffield, UK
ComVu, PocketCaster
Justin TV, "Event streaming to lifecasting.”
HomeCamera, Home Monitoring
Infinite Conferencing, Web Conferencing
Kyte, "Own your broadcast network"
Mogulus, Live Broadcast
MyStreams, Stream. Search. Simple.
Operator 11, Your Social Television Network
StickAm, the Live Community
Ustream, Live Interactive Broadcasting
Veodia, Live TV Studio in Your Browser
Y! Live, The World Is Watching
YouCams, Instant Social Networking
Webcams are being used in some unusual ways. Along with their CB radios, truckers have now added webcams, as evidenced by the several truckers on Camstreams, which also carries the Online Piano Bar from Florida. Tom Green's House Tonight combines celebrity guests with call-ins from viewers who have Skype and webcams. In the summer of 2007, Justin Shattuck set out across the USA, giving rides and taking people wherever they wanted to go. Viewers followed his journey via his webcam and also with a GPS unit showing his location as a moving dot on a Google map.
Here are services offering live, streaming web video:
BlogTV, "You bring the webcam, we bring the stage"
Camstreams, Easy Streaming from Sheffield, UK
ComVu, PocketCaster
Justin TV, "Event streaming to lifecasting.”
HomeCamera, Home Monitoring
Infinite Conferencing, Web Conferencing
Kyte, "Own your broadcast network"
Mogulus, Live Broadcast
MyStreams, Stream. Search. Simple.
Operator 11, Your Social Television Network
StickAm, the Live Community
Ustream, Live Interactive Broadcasting
Veodia, Live TV Studio in Your Browser
Y! Live, The World Is Watching
YouCams, Instant Social Networking
