Today we’re happy 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. Want to broadcast your life? DJ a live set to a remote audience? Broadcast a nightclub vibe to the Web? Build a 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 the developer preview of our API and embeddable components, as 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@yahoogroups.com , follow our twitter feed, and check out the blog to stay with the conversation.
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
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Comment by sighmon — February 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
nice, but where’s the bandwidth?? i wanna play.
props to the designers though, it looks slick and beautiful. can’t wait to test functionality and usability.
sighmon.
Comment by chandra — February 8th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Not impressed.
I read a few things about Yahoo live today and decided it seemed cool enough to set up my own account. Then, to my horror, I discovered the TWO privacy options.
You give me the option of public or less public? No thanks.
As if that wasn’t enough, I discovered that I could not delete the “snapshot” images from my video.
This is my content. I should be able to delete it along with my chat history - why don’t you give me the option to delete? Google gives me that option and so should you.
So then, I decided to delete my newborn account - but I couldn’t!
I went down to the terms of service and found myself having to login in to several different pages - including an entire page of pre-set opt-in marketing settings (that I wasn’t made aware of at all in the sign up process).
Please spend more time “experimenting” with user controls and settings.
Comment by John — February 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Please add an option of removing an account and possibility to delete snapshots archive from your profile (and option to not to take any snapshots at all) it’s really bad for privacy you can’t do it now.There should an option to lock the channel.
Comment by Ashraf Sharawi — May 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
it’s seems very cute, I will make sure to enter again ;)
Comment by Tyler Norman — May 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I love that I can embed myself on my myspace! My friends love it!!! =P One thing is that there was an error saying its experimental and to come back later or something so Im hoping that doesnt happen ALL the time but I do understand this is still a growing process. Thank you