We’re excited to share with you Yahoo! Live, a new experiment in live video from the Advanced Products team at Yahoo!. Y! Live was dreamed up as a way to make it possible for anyone to create their own live video experience. Broadcast the concert you’re at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast. Build your own live video speed dating application. We’ve created a website and an API that lets you do all these things and many more.
For viewers: How is Y! Live different from other online video sites? That’s simple: it’s live. What you’re watching, right now, is what other people are watching, right now. We wanted to create an experience that takes us back to live television, where things are happening now, in real time.
For broadcasters: You’ve been posting your stuff to MySpace and YouTube. Now, connect with your fans in real time on Y! Live. There is something intangible about a live performance – an excitement that you can’t replicate in pre-recorded format. Broadcast a performance, interact with your fans with video and chat, embed your broadcast anywhere - it’s all possible on Y! Live.
For developers: Check out our developer preview of our API and embeddable components, and well as a sample app and tutorial we threw together. We’re looking for your feedback at this point, and will be incorporating it as we get to version 1.0 of our API in the coming months. Play around with it and let us know what you think. We’re always interested in seeing what you’ve built, and we’ll feature cool stuff you build on our site.
Keep in mind that Y! Live is an experimental release. The Advanced Products team is a small incubation team at Yahoo! – our mission is to build stuff and launch it quickly, and respond to market feedback. Y! Live is a limited capacity release, so bear with us as and we may reach our limits in periods of high traffic. Our top priority now is to hear your feedback – send your comments to ylive-contact (at] yahoo-inc (dot] com, and follow our twitter feed to hear about headline broadcasts and notable things happening live.
Special thanks to JT the Bigga Figga of Mandatory Business and Ricky Montalvo putting that Y! Live intro video together. And big props to the Y! Live team: Eric, Matt, Keith, David, and Premshree - these guys seriously cranked to get this thing built and launched in six months.
Michael Quoc
Director, Advanced Products
Dangit. I wanted to try it. Ran out of bandwidth?
Awesome I love YLive, i wrote some things about it on my blog site. My channel is myspace
Yahoo Live ? Dont you think it clashes with Windows Live ?
I like the interface, its look and feel Can’t wait until it functional.
Cool website really seems interesting thanx guys for creating it
Awesome!! But facing prob with the “maintainence”. Hope that gets out of the way soon
Lots of people talking about Y! Live and it is a shame it is down at the moment. Why didn’t you guys have a private beta to test it out more? I’m anxious to see this service when it is running properly.
I can’t find a page on Y! Live that lists channels that are currently broadcasting. Rapidly growing tired of clicking each channel at random to see if it’s broadcasting or not.
I’ve clicked dozens and none of them are broadcasting.
I would like a channel for my site. How do I get that?
This will be so much fun. This was a great idea.
Congrats to those who conceived it
Hey — Interesting product, but what’s with the fascination with giving “props”? Two posts, two sets of props-giving. I think the 90s called..
Your life video presentation has a video filter effect to make it look like old film.
…wow.
Y’all are getting ready for the msoft buy, I guess?
Fantastic tool !!! Congratulations for the development…
how do you change channels on live i cant get to themain list of channels
Will you be publishing a list of the features you’re wanting to add in the near future? I can certainly see this being a very cool site in the future. Thanks for sharing, good luck keeping up with demand. I’m looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
With no TOS it sure looks like a haven for the porn bots ..”live on cam now” and I just imagine what’s going to be on those live cams
I won’t be joining YLive but I’m sure plenty of naked women and men with their pants down will be, Yahoo just made then their own little haven
You do realize, of course, that the phrase “The world is watching” is also used by LiveVideo which officially launched their web site last night after being around for over a year?
I am looking forward to that.How canI be a part of it?
Ngcobo
Hey just wondering if the ‘live’ broadcasts can be recorded and then offered as ’saved content’ or ’sent to youTube’ or use a ‘video podcast’.
Was not sure where I could ask this question so i thought here might be a good place.
Nice…i like the concept!
I wish we could make room private. I don’t think it can be…
can people call in to my show? How does that work?
For Developers: A snippet that I could place on my homepage to indicate if I am broadcasting or not would be a useful addition.
As it is, its still a killer service. Thanks
Uh, yeah…
I’ve got accounts on those other video sites. I don’t have the latest version of IE, because it doesn’t run on Windows 2000. The absolute latest SeaMonkey build works on ALL of those other sites just fine. So does IE6 for that matter. This looks all very exciting and neat - but how about some idea about when it’s going to even be functional for everyone? I see no help links anywhere on any Y! Live page.
Sadly, I’m not impressed. I would hope for far more from the ‘old hands of the internet’ that you would expect Yahoo to be. I believe in choice, so I would actually like to see more functional options. Competition is good - but to compete your stuff has to work.
Oh, and being greeted in Spanish? Hola? My account info places me squarely in the United States, where English is the primary language - and the one I chose when I made my account over 10 years ago. No part of Yahoo seems to allow you to adjust this anymore.
Come on folks.
If nothing else, stick the “beta” next to Y! Live where it ought to be.
are you blocking live feature on some IDs? i cant activate live on my id now. it was working fine before. i can broadcast using a friend’s id on my machine. so its not a hardware problem.
Please add an option to remove an account and snapshots archive,it’s impossible to delete it now which is really,really bad.Possibility of the locking the channel would be highly welcome.
I’m trying to “go live” with my Intel iMac (Leopard) but the site doesn’t recognize my internal camera. It says the camera is in use by another application.
But I can watch others people videos without any problem.
Regards
Mario
There are a few features that would make this service better.
1) A way to save channels as “favorites”
2) Give me the option to NOT have the featured channel automatically broadcast to me when I hit the front page.
3) A SEARCH function.
I’m assuming that these basic features are in the works, but it seems that they should have been implemented before this launched.
Hi,
I am trying to implement the skinless player but without success … I am using the sample you have in the documentation, however I cannot communicate with the flash variables (i used the source code of the example without modification), so could you tell me how can i have some information about authorization required or any source library i need, besides de code that is in the sample …? the normal player works without problem .. the problem is with the skinless … no playerready() activation until now…
I have tried to run from my site … and from the client, with no success.
thanks