Yahoo! Live

Yahoo! Live

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File:Y! live.jpg Yahoo! Live as of June 20, 2008
URL	live.yahoo.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Live video broadcast
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	English
Owner	Yahoo!
Created by	Yahoo!
Launched	February 6, 2008
Current status	Discontinued

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

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.

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

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. 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. Unfortunately, videos are not archived for playback, once it’s broadcast, there is no way of recovering the video, and the is no other way of streaming unless it's live, meaning users cannot pre-record videos and then broadcast them.
IAMGOD and Matrix PWNED! the platform

External links

• Yahoo! Live (Official Homepage 404)
• Yahoo! Live Blog
• Yahoo! Live's twitter feed