Yahoo Live Launches – Online Video, Um, Live

Techmeme is all abuzz with news of the Yahoo Live launch. I’m thinking Yahoo’s doing online video? Again? But weren’t they closing Yahoo Video? No, that was Yahoo Podcasts — it’s hard to keep track of the closures. But still, what’s special about Live? Then I hit the official Yahoo blog post about it and […]

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Techmeme is all
abuzz
with news of the Yahoo Live
launch. I’m thinking Yahoo’s doing online video? Again? But weren’t they closing
Yahoo Video? No, that was
Yahoo Podcasts
it’s hard to keep track of the closures. But still, what’s special about Live?
Then I hit the official Yahoo blog post about it and it all became clear (and
potentially cool). Yahoo Live lets you broadcast live video. From

the post
:

Broadcast the concert you’re at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast.
Build your own live video speed dating application. We’ve created a website and
an API that lets you do all these things and many more.

Ready to get going? Apparently, plenty were — and the "experimental" site
crashed. It remains down at the moment, but check out the posts below for some
screenshots:

You can also find more related coverage
on Techmeme, plus
stay tuned to the new Yahoo Live Blog.


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Danny Sullivan
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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