We were honored to have an illustrious guest make a cameo appearance on Yahoo! Live yesterday and today - Jordin Sparks logged in as J-Speezy and chatted it up with her fans, and even did a few renditions of No Air and Tattoo for us all! It was a great broadcast - Jordin, we hope to see you online again soon!
Earlier this week, we rolled out a new feature which enables you as a broadcaster to temporarily turn off your chat room. Why would you do this? Well, as some of you more popular broadcasters know, things can get a little crazy when there are hundreds of people trying to talk at once. This feature will enable you to at least broadcast in peace momentarily while things settle down a bit. All you need to do is click the “Disable Chat” button in your Broadcast Control Panel, then click it again once you want to restart your chat. We’re working on additional features which will give you more granular control of your channel, but we thought you’d appreciate this tool in the meantime. As always, we’d love your feedback, so please leave your comments on this blog.
Wanted to also give a shout out to the Y! Live engineering team (you can see the team roster over in the right column of this blog). They’ve been working hard on some major nuts and bolts improvements to our streaming and communications infrastructure. Most of this is behind-the-scenes work you don’t see, but it’s critical stuff that will help keep the site running smoothly as it grows. We’re looking forward to soon being able to shift our focus to bringing you some brand new features which you can actually touch and feel and teach new tricks and stuff - so stay tuned!
Can’t make it out to South Beach for the annual Winter Music Conference this year? No worries, this year you can join the fun from the comfort of your own cube by checking out Y! Live’s Winter Music Conference streaming site. We’ll be there next week (starting Tuesday 3/25 and ending Sunday 3/30) and will bring you the biggest DJ’s, live interviews, and poolside cams (in between margarita breaks, of course).
What will you see? Some live sets we’ll be covering: Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Paul Van Dyk, Satoshi Tomiie, Adam Freeland, Mark Farina, Roger Sanchez, Armand Van Helden, Steve Lawler. Some concerts and parties we’ll be at: Oakenfold Bourne Sessions, X-Mix Productions, Marine Parade, Ultra Music Festival, Remix Hotel Beatport pool party, SAW Recordings, Stealth, Defected in the House, CR2 Live and Direct.
We’ll bringing you this live coverage in partnership with Birago Jones from the SAW Recordings XM Show and the Syndicated Beats podcast, and with special our special Y! Live guest host Tilly Key.
Catch all the the action at http://wmc.live.yahoo.com, this page will be dedicated to WMC all week and will feature the top WMC streams along with a schedule of upcoming events.
Also, drop us a note at ylive-contact (at) yahoo-inc (dot) com if you’ll be at WMC and would like to broadcast while there, or otherwise just hang out. Look forward to seeing you all in South Beach and on Y! Live.
The annual Winter Music Conference in South Beach is coming up in the last week of March. It’s the largest annual gathering of industry professionals and artists in the electronic music scene. With some big DJ’s like Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Paul Van Dyk, and Tiesto, and an endless list of parties across South Beach every night - WMC is going to be a non-stop party. For those you you who won’t be there - don’t worry, the Y! Live team will be on-site, bringing you the best parties and music, streamed live on Y! Live.
For those of you who WILL be there, we want to hear from you! We’re looking for any Y! Live broadcasters who are interested in streaming from the event with us. We’ll work with you to get equipped and will be promoting our featured broadcasters during the event. We’ll be streaming all week, from Tue March 25 through Sat March 29. Drop a comment here or send a note to ylive-contact (at] yahoo-inc (dot] com.
Just finished a great recording session with the Trackrunners - we spent about 3 hours with them live, giving them ideas and feedback as they composed a new track. The Y! Live audience chose the topic (pickup lines, heh), and the Trackrunners put down the beats, melodies, rhymes right there as we watched. The result is a brand new mp3, available for you all to download - just head over to myspace.com/thetrackrunners and download the opening track, “What I Gotta Say.” Nice job Trackrunners, hope to see you guys on again soon.
For the fortunate few who caught Rob Glaser’s brief Y! Live stream from an Obama rally in Seattle, you know what a cool moment it was. We made a last minute decision to hop over to Dallas to catch one of Obama’s final rallies of this primary season, and will be streaming the event citizen-broadcast-style in its entirety for you all at the Y! Live Obama08 channel. Provided we make it through tightened security with enough computer parts to put together a broadcast, we’ll be live - hope to see you there.
Come to the Trackrunners channel on Sunday, March 2 at 7pm PT / 10pm ET - they will be in-studio, and ready to lay down a track, together with you. The Trackrunners and Inhouse Records came to us with this brilliant concept for a collaborative, social recording session:
We think this will be a lot of fun, as well as a chance to experience truly collaborative, social music creation. Come join the good times! Join the Y! Live twitter feed to receive alerts for this and other live events.
Amazing broadcast today from the Hyper Island art school in Stockholm. They streamed a live interactive mural painting session, where they took feedback and requests from viewers on Y! Live and created the mural in real-time with the audience. They also took off one piece of clothing every time the viewer count passed a new milestone. Thankfully, we only got down to no t-shirts.
Starting at midnight, for the next 24 hours, random people and celebrities alike will get married, in Vegas, in front of a worldwide audience on the interweb. Yahoo and Dr. Pepper are inviting anyone to come to the Hard Rock Hotel this Valentine’s Day to get married or renew their vows in proper Vegas style. The event will be streamed at the Yahoo! Valentine’s in Vegas website, and a special social broadcast on Y! Live will be run in parallel. So come on in and join the party, it runs all throughout the day!
Thanks to everyone who’s been broadcasting with us! The last 5 days have been great - we’re amazed at the talent and interesting ideas we’ve seen all over the site. Singers, guitarists, DJ’s, comedians - it’s been hard to tear ourselves away from watching you to get some real work done! Shout out to hotpuppets for the best dancing skills in the puppet category. Lavalamp - very cool idea and nice visual impact. And congrats to Aquarium for being the first aquarium broadcast on Y! Live (we’re sure you won’t be the last!). Some screens from the past few days:
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