Youtube Live coming this year.

[Atomic_Piggy]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901113

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen says the site plans to launch a live video service this year.

In a brief interview videotaped at a New York party thrown by YouTube, Chen told Sarah Meyers of Pop17.com that YouTube had always wanted to offer live video but lacked the resources. That, however, has changed, sinceGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG)'s acquisition of YouTube in 2006.

The video and transcript of the interview were posted by TechCrunch. In the interview, Meyers asks, "When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?"

Chen responds: "2008. We'll do it this year." He goes on to say, "Live video is just something that we've always wanted to do. We've never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually launch something this year."

Live video, which is the ability to use a Web cam to record events and then stream the results in real time to the Web is not new to the Internet.Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched such a service as an "experimental release" this month.

Along with showing Web cam-generated video streams from people's computers, Yahoo Live also offers developers an application programming interface for mashing up live video streams on a Web site or client application. The API uses REST, or Representational State Transfer, an XML-based protocol for invoking Web services over HTTP.

A unique feature in the service is the ability to see people watching the same video, assuming their Web cams are linked to the service. In addition, there's live chat while the video is playing.

Discuss.

 

[Tyguy]

Why is he still involved in the site....take your billion dollars and go to the beach

 

[Rapstah]

Can't wait for the extreme live porn.

 

[Xendance]

Sounds good.

 

[Emporius]

Oh yay, now I get to be spammed with thousands of people bitching about their existence live.

 

[Bad^Hat]

How do you moderate live video? I see mass lawsuits/bannage.

And tits.

In other words, I'm for it.

 

[Phobie]

Oh yay, now I get to be spammed with thousands of people bitching about their existence live.

This.

 

[The Monkey]

I think they should focus on improving the video quality instead.

 

[Druckles]

Some inevitable problems with it. I'd envisage it'd only be accessible by certain people at first. It'd cut out the titty-time at the very least. But it seems to me to defeat the purpose of YouTube. Half of it's existence is based upon the fact that people can come back and watch things any time they want, or pause things similarly. Why bother watching YouTube Live when you can just watch TV? At the very least you might be able to find something worth watching :/

 

[joule]

I think they should focus on improving the video quality instead.

YouTube has already started rolling out hi-res versions of existing user videos.

Try adding "&fmt=6" or "&fmt=18" without quotes to the end of YouTube links to see the difference.

 

[Druckles]

Holy load-load time Batman!

I managed to break YouTube while it was loading :/

 

[joule]

Yea, expect an increase in load time when adding those characters.

 

[TheDude]

yay! Now I can finally bitch to the world about my emo problems.