We always knew politics would be a great use case for Y! Live - we just didn’t expect it to be on our first day after launch! Rob Glaser, CEO of Real Networks, streamed an Obama rally in Seattle to a live audience on Y! Live just a few minutes ago. Thanks Rob for streaming it for us, and thanks to Kent Brewster for providing the audio feed - I have to say, it was an amazing moment for us all.
Kent has some additional screenshots.
Also, Silicon Alley Insider picked up the story and embedded the broadcast on their blog.
Y! Live’s first night was quite a ride. We had some killer performances from JT the Bigga Figga, Sheena Melwani, David Choi, Tilly Key, DJ Buzzkill and more - props to all of you, we all had a blast hanging out with you!
We also saw our site go through some intermittent outages as traffic surged late into the evening. We’ve been researching it and have identified some key improvements we need to make to make the site run more smoothly - we’re working hard to implement those now. We hope to have the site up and running much more smoothly in the morning.
One thing to keep in mind is that although this product comes from Yahoo! (a big company), the team working on Y! Live is only six people deep. We’re a really tiny incubation group which is tasked with building innovative new products and get them out there ASAP. Our mantra is to iterate and build with the community, as opposed to unveiling The Next Big Thing on Day One. We hope you collaborate with us as we shape Y! Live into a game-changing product.
