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Written on November 21, 2008 – 10:30 am
Zee M Kane, Internet Marketer, Design Connoisseur & Web App Devotee
After the awful news of the suicide live on streaming site Justin.tv yesterday, there has obviously been much discussion across the web. Tom Davis, Founder of YCombinator startup TicketStumbler, took it upon himself to post what can only be called a highly inappropriate joke on YCombinator’s Hacker News site.
It started with this message (I have intentionally not re-posted here) which immediately caused large scale condemnation from other members of the site. For those of you who aren’t regular visitors to Hacker News, comments work similarly to how Digg’s do - other members can vote comments or up or down. One member commented that they would not be using TicketStumbler.com in the future and as you can see below, a number of other members agreed.
Approximately 7 hours later Davis makes a public apology, which can be read below:
I would like to take a moment to publicly apologize for what I said in the Justin.tv thread. If you’ve decided to hate me forever, haven’t read it, or simply aren’t of the opinion that it’s a big deal you may stop reading now.
Upon returning home, I read a message from Dan (my co-founder) stating that, in hindsight, he felt it was a bad thing to say and, quote, “I feel sick to my stomach.” I knew then that no matter how serious I felt the infraction was, I had try my damnedest to clear it up.
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Written on November 4, 2008 – 10:40 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
The reason I like Yahoo is that they have the guts to try new stuff. From the adoption of OpenID to challenging Digg, the Sunnyvale-based company keeps experimenting. The tricky part of that strategy is that not all projects succeed. As from December 3rd, Yahoo Live can be added to that list.
Its like you are breaking my heart with this news. I have been able to see my family every day because Y Live has made that possible not only for mr but for the rest of the guys here in Iraq. Please wait until we get home.
.. says jERRY jARVIS in the comments on the blog post that announces Yahoo Live’s way to the deadpool. 74 other users took the effort to sign a petition for the survival of Yahoo Live. Frankly, that number isn’t very spectacular, so I guess these folks will now have to move to services like BlogTV or Ustream to broadcast their adventures.
Yahoo Live launched and crashed (due to data overload) in February 2008. NewTeeVee reports that the streaming service only had 1,280 people watching 47 channels. This isn’t much, compared to their successful competitors. Our editor Ayelet Noff recently wrote about BlogTV, which has 20,000 different users broadcasting their own unique shows. No wonder Yahoo pulled the plug…
Written on May 19, 2008 – 10:17 am
Steven Carrol, Next Web WebTipr France
Hank Williams started a little shit storm in the hacking community recently claiming death to the content distribution networks with the launch of Flash Player 10.
It led to an interesting discussion among hackers and forced Adobe out of bed to respond. See live video is hot right now, but so are those bandwidth charges which are very limiting on profits.
Flash Player 10 coupled with Flash Media Server will be offering new features which will essentially allow some form of p2p streaming capability (though the details have not yet been released), thus possibly enabling live p2p streaming and according to Adobe “applications like chat and games are great examples of likely uses of this technology”.
Why pay charges if you can avoid them? RED5 an open source alternative to the 1K USD Flash Media Server, may well be interested in reverse engineering this new functionality, as will no doubt the 8 hackers at Justin.tv who claim to be one of the largest players in the live video biz and who have developed their own Python Media Server - “a custom built live streaming video server cluster. The network can support thousands of live broadcasts and over 100,000 simultaneous viewers and is 100% owned and operated by Justin.tv”.
Plus Justin.tv are currently leading the way in reducing bandwidth charges. “For most in the industry, live video streaming tends to be expensive - with costs ranging between 15-30 cents per user hour of live streamed video. The Justin.tv video network streams live video at 1/4 cent per user hour - by far the most cost effective live streaming ever built.”
So it looks like Flash Player 10 might help the ‘cutting edge providers’ of live streaming services to reduce those high bandwidth charges even further and maintain an edge over the mighty Yahoo who probably don’t care quite so much about bandwidth as those who actually need profits in order to survive this battle.
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