CRÜHEAD 4- EVER

We need some 24/7 live content. Team up with news sites to offer live news. Live sports would be great. Team up with a major sports league. Team up with amateur sports leagues, even help them setup. Y! Live could probably get the NHL as is not too popular down there. It would be great for the NHL to promote the sport, and it would be great for Y! Live. Team up with a CBS, which already offers their shows online. There is so much potential here, it is mindblowing. Lifecasting is great but gets boring after a couple minutes.

Y! Live is the best Live platform I’ve seen on the web thus far, but competition will be coming from the likes of Youtube soon.

I would like to suggest some enhancement:-

1) Is it possible to have an api that returns aggregates? I want all info about a live channel - user info, channel details and broadcast details in one request? Right now, I have to make various requests to aggregate all these data?

2) Is there a way to get geo-location even for users who have not updated their Y! Live profile? I know, it’s privacy concern but probably some way? It would be great to have most of the users update their location?

3) Can you think of any way to open up your Flash Media Server for a few things like event update (channel status, broadcast status, etc)? It would be great to have server pushing data instead of apps pulling? Would help us creating great apps. I can help you with Flash Media Server API thingy, you can even setup a xmpp based API for these things?

RSS/ATOM feed doesn’t make sense for this kind of stuff, where things are changing every second.. However, syndication can still be thought in some way… The way twitter is doing..

4) When can we expect a nice chromeless player? Kindly check out how YouTube doing their chromeless player, they are providing player API (AS/JS) and also taking care of security. It’s actually two swf - api.swf and player.swf; player.swf is exposed (limited way) via api.swf, api.swf allows all domains (*) to cross-script.. If that is done, I can load Y! Live player in my swf and control it the way I want to… currently it doesn’t work (resizing and various issues).

5) This is not related to API, would be great if Y! Live users can associate various other social-network ids with their profile. For example, Twitter details - once Twitter support openID/oAuth (so you don’t have to ask users to save password in Y! DB - password anti-pattern), so whenever a channel goes live - it sends an update “I am live, come and chat with me” ? I see people doing it manually as of today?

If users don’t want to send it automatically, a button in UI (control panel) would be great - that sends an update when clicked?

Thanks

-abdul

The concert is to raise awareness of the sex trade and prostitution in Thailand. Many of these girls and boys are forced to work as prostitutes, and for as little as ten dollars men can do what they want with them. Over 200,000 women are bound by prostitution in Thailand.

The profits from the evening will go towards the Tamar Centre which helps young women get off of the streets. The concert is free but you can donate money or purchase a CD. All the profits go toward these women and giving them a better life.

There is more about the benefit concert and the organisation putting on the conference at http://www.voiceforthevoiceless.com.au.

Y! Live is going to make it possible for us to broadcast the concert and raise more awareness to people about the sex trade and prostitution in Thailand.

friends lists, better search etc.. just really needs more features. this thing needs to get more popuplar, thx.