Miley Cyrus alone in heavy Facebook streaming
It’s been a couple of months since Facebook launched its streaming video pages powered by Ustream. Is it catching on? TechCrunch used the feature to simulcast the TechCrunch50 event week before last. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg used it to stream a speaking appearance in Brazil. Reggae singer Matisyahu did a show from Twitter’s office.
Ustream’s aggressive (in a good way) marketing department called yesterday to let me know that Facebook streamers have racked up 4 million… Continue Reading
Ustream expands to pre-recorded video, iPhone video uploads
Video streaming service Ustream.TV has adopted a two-pronged strategy for growth. The company, founded in 2006, now mixes top-tier TV brands and celebrities with its do-it-yourself video tools for the masses.
The company has landed $13 million in funding so far, much of it through DCM, and fought its way out of alt.video obscurity with a deal in June to host CBS’ live news reports. In addition, Ustream has hosted a Jonas Brothers appearance and this… Continue Reading
Facebook debuts live chat pages, Ustream live video
Facebook’s new Live Stream Box is a cut-and-paste HTML widget that can be added to a website to let Facebook users chat alongside a live event. Updates to the stream post quickly and then wash off the screen, to maximize the live-event feel.
In the example shown below, Mashable founder and poster boy Pete Cashmore has set up a Live Stream Box next to a video window.
At the same time, Facebook and Ustream have integrated Ustream’s… Continue Reading
Roundup: Spreadtweet, Windows Live, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Tungle launches web service for scheduling meetings — More on Web Worker Daily.
App lets Tweeters fake a work ethic – What’s better than scheduling meetings online? Tricking your boss into thinking you’re working on an Excel spreadsheet when you’re really using Twitter! This productivity feigning app looks like columns and rows, but it’s really a stream of Tweets. Paul Boutin has a closer look at this new app, cleverly named… wait for it… Spreadtweet.
rPath introduces new version of its… Continue Reading
Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream’s iPhone app launches
True to its word, live streaming video site Ustream, has released its iPhone application into Apple’s App Store in time for people to watch President Obama’s inauguration on their iPhones live tomorrow.
The app, which I’m using right now, works great. I’m watching the famous Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, and the picture quality is very good. Unfortunately, the streaming video will only work over Wi-Fi and not a 3G connection, a limitation also found in other… Continue Reading
Source: Google teaming with Ustream for YouTube Live event — long-term partnership to follow?
Online video site YouTube will be partnering with the live video streaming service UStream for YouTube’s live event on November 22, an anonymous tipster tells us. If true, the ramifications of the partnership are interesting for a number of reasons, most significantly the potential for a YouTube live-streaming service.
Here’s what we know: YouTube’s event, called “YouTube Live“, will feature popular video bloggers, famous musicians, comedians, athletes and more, all gathered together in an outdoor pavilion… Continue Reading
YouTube Live not just an event after all, but a live-streaming service?
On November 22, YouTube is holding an event called “YouTube Live!” — this has been known for a while, it’s just an event that will feature people hanging out together, in the flesh. But the event may also be the platform from which YouTube will launch its own live-streaming video service, a company source tells Silicon Alley Insider.
YouTube will only say that it’s working with a third-party live streaming service to stream the event live… Continue Reading
14 ways to broadcast yourself…live
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Thanks to the meteoric rise of YouTube, anyone with a video camera and an internet connection can be a star. More recently, they can live stream themselves to you 24/7, even from a mobile phone. Here we take a look at 14 companies competing in this sector.
Justin.TV, featuring a live cam of a guy named Justin in San Francisco, helped spearhead the new wave of popularity, but a host of other companies are battling for… Continue Reading
Roundup: Andreessen’s tips, Revver’s shakeup, Xing’s move, Yigg.de and much more
Here’s the (updated) latest action:
Marc Andreessen getting taste of what it’s like to be a blogger – The Netscape co-founder launched a blog last week. The NYT ran a story about one of his earliest posts. Then he did a good piece about how to hire. And now all the attention has him racing out more posts, including a three part series on The truth about venture capitalists, all very good reads (here, here and… Continue Reading