Live is going to be big!

Top it off with the API coming. It will quickly move from the incubator to one of the main products for Yahoo.

I agree there should be the same or better functionality including recording a show, friends, etc… It will happen.

Right now there are 1,325 people watching 121 live channels. Except to see these numbers double quickly as the word spreads.

Or complete lack thereof!

Back to CS 101 for you!

Site launched, saw a lot of traffic, went down. Yes, it’s an error on Yahoo!’s part, but it’s isn’t detrimental in the long-term. It’ll be fixed and soon forgotten and it won’t affect the future of the property.

Please find quality content that keeps me coming back to TC. This post just isn’t it. Focus more on reviewing the service than showing your knowledge of cloud servers.

Comparing to other still small Valley startups with no brand name is kinda weak. When a company like Yahoo launches anything they will beyond doubt see a lot of traffic and the traffic is not users who know who Kevin Rose is… There is a world outside the Valley… NO excuse for not scaling well. But it is pretty brave to open a service like this to everyone.

Btw… I’m pretty sure Yahoo has engineers that can scale!

The error message was clearly ill-chosen - something that pointed at the experimental nature of the site and invited people to try again later would have been a lot better - but trashing an experimental release for not scaling is just wrong.

I doubt it’s really a scaling problem - Y! has plenty of experience with scaling…

This attitude - internally within Yahoo - and - externally from naive (and muckraking) bloggers like the one above - is what punishes creativity -

First you trash people who have the balls to experiment on this scale - (And they are clearly experimenting here)
And then when they dont because of rubbish from you or their fat ass VPs you trash them again for not doing so

Tough world we live in

The real problem with your moronic post is that you suggest that Yahoo! doesn’t know how to scale! (and also in your comments that they do not know how to compute in a cloud).

Basic knowledge of Yahoo!/Engineering understands this:
1) Of course they know how to scale, they keep the largest e-mail and web service running through 100s of millions of users per day.
2) They use a wonderful open source (lilkely with proprietary extensions) tools like Hadoop to run their massive operations.
3) Sometimes things break …

Now, why would Microsoft and Google engineers come in and “save the day”.

Clearly, Yahoo! can do this in house, they have demonstrated clearly through their highly available highly scalable e-mail service that they know how.

Also, Yahoo! owns broadcast.com (an insight I should have gleaned from your superficial post), and has a tremendous amount of in house know how in terms of scaling it.

If you have been paying attention to the internet for more than the “web 2.0″ years, you would also know that Yahoo! has more experience doing video broadcast than any of these upstarts (who simply use a flash streaming server).

So…

You merely should have said.

Yahoo! Your beta was not ready for release. Go back and fix it and come back live when you are ready!

Duncan, I’ve said this before, and I’ll say this again.. Your articles are useless.

Yahoo should be able to scale if these little guys can .

Definitely should have launched a slow private beta first and work out the kinks in my opinion

Check out the yahoo home page, it loads in 1.5 seconds. Now look at msn.com: 8.5 seconds. And you think yahoo needs help from microsoft to scale?

El nuevo servicio Yahoo Live lanzado ya no se encuentra accesible debido a la gran saturación de sus sistemas….