Yahoo! Live
Type of site
Live video broadcast
Available inEnglish
OwnerYahoo!
Created byYahoo!
URLlive.yahoo.com
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedFebruary 6, 2008
Current statusDiscontinued

Yahoo! Live or Y! Live was a Yahoo! service that allowed users to broadcast videos in real time.[1] The service was closed on December 3, 2008.[2]

History

Yahoo! Live was launched on February 6, 2008 as a "limited preview" and in spite of Yahoo!'s rejection to Microsoft's offer just a few days earlier, the site crashed the same night it was launched due to lack of bandwidth.[3]

The service was conceived and created by Michael Quoc (Director of Products),[4] Matthew Fukuda (Head of Design), Eric Fixler (Engineering Lead) and others in the Yahoo! Advanced Products Group incubator.

On November 3, 2008, Yahoo! Live announced that the service would be ended on Dec. 3.[5]

It was officially discontinued at 7:07 P.M. EST on Dec. 3 2008 with the message "kthxbai" posted on the main page.

Features

The design is similar to the one on Justin.tv. The chat system and video windows are as portable as with ustream.tv. Users can create a channel, authorize their webcam and start broadcasting to the public. Other people can watch, or choose to participate via video, sound or text chat, which can be disabled.[6] Users can also set up profiles and track how many people have watched them stream live, how many broadcasts they have made, and how long they have been on the streaming. Videos are not archived for playback; once it is broadcast, there is no way of recovering the video, and there is no way of streaming other than live, meaning users cannot pre-record videos and then broadcast them.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Yahoo Launches Live - A Live Streaming Video Service
  2. ↑ "Yahoo".
  3. ↑ Yahoo! Live Quietly Launches, and Loudly Crashes
  4. ↑ Yahoo Live video-streaming site goes live, dies, comes back to life
  5. ↑ Stopping our broadcast…
  6. ↑ Chat control freaks, unite!


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