Comments on: On Air: YouTube Kicks Off Its First Live Event

By: alfabet

alfabet — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:12:08 +0000

youtube is amazing.
also this blog.

By: YouTube Premieres its New Service ‘Live’ Directly from San Francisco

YouTube Premieres its New Service ‘Live’ Directly from San Francisco — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:41:33 +0000

[...] and includes “vloggers”, creators, athletes and famous musicians” According to TechCrunch, the act can cost around 21.200 euros and requires the help of Akamai. Moreover, it says around [...]

By: Diamonds

Diamonds — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:21:42 +0000

Live? More like delayed

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:24:39 +0000

I have to admit – the quality of youtube is getting better every day!

By: TELEVISIÓN EN INTERNET « Orezas’s Weblog

TELEVISIÓN EN INTERNET « Orezas’s Weblog — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:50:55 +0000

[...] TechCrunch, el acto podría haber costado alrededor de 21.200 euros y requirió la ayuda de Akamai. Además, [...]

By: Google SearchWiki disappears (updated) | Truckers' Kit

Google SearchWiki disappears (updated) | Truckers' Kit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:01:03 +0000

[...] bug and is working on restoring SearchWiki now (and by “now” they mean right after the Youtube concert): “We’re really sorry that people can’t use SearchWiki at the moment – [...]

By: Mobile Answers

Mobile Answers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:42:26 +0000

From an adult perspective, it was horrible. It was geared towards kids/children – anyone under 20 basically. It felt too much like a really shoddly thrown together attempt to clone the MTV Awards.

It felt dumbed down, and consisted of celebrities like LisaNova, who is basically a ‘celebrity’ – if you can call it that, for the no other reason but for the fact that now and then she flashes a shot of her cleavage.

The only thing worth watching in the sea of nonsense they broadcasted was the breakdance troupe towards the end. There was an attempt by MythBusters to make an appearance, but it was rather bad and long. They had this machine, shameless promotion for NVidia, where they spray the machine at one ofthe guys – but the leadup to it was too long and the result was pretty unsatisfying.

Akon made an apperance, and it was supposd to be the highlight since that was the only real celebrity they could get. It wasn’t very good – I give a B+ for trying, but an F for content – considering the amount of real talent they have, they could have promoted some of the amazing stuff on YouTube – like musicians, performers and stuff. So many people would have done their stuff for free – but instead they chose to take only the most popular youtubers – and that resulted in some pretty boring routines.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:44:17 +0000

Seems to me 700K is far short of the reported “millions” that tuned in.

By: Yasser

Yasser — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:42:52 +0000

I watched from Asia. Technology was great but the show wasn’t on point!

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By: Social networking - All our thoughts on social media

Social networking - All our thoughts on social media — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:04:55 +0000

I guess that this shit hates you more than you hate it.

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Two Geeks and a Blog :: Geek News Starbuck (Bob) :: Quick Hits: Nov. 16 - 22 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:50:43 +0000

[...] YouTube kicks off its first live event – TechCrunch [...]

By: myman

myman — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:20:18 +0000

it didn’t work that bad for me

By: Denis

Denis — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:19:14 +0000

+1
for a sec I thought “wow this is really cool and useless”

By: tou tuhnje

tou tuhnje — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:07:49 +0000

I hate this shit

By: John

John — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:52:15 +0000

“You” “really like” “quotes” “.”

By: onteevee

onteevee — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:01:09 +0000

I was at the event. A couple Three observations: first, thanks to all the performers. Ok so her we go…1) nice try, sort of suprised that it took the tube so long to throw a party for the masses that made them who they are; 2) yes I attended for free, but in the Pavillion, the whole front half of the space was reserved seating and EVERYONE else, the masses, had to watch the monitors. So the whole thing felt like we were just bodies to fill the space so that the wide shots would look good. That plus the heavy movie sponsorships made the thing more like the big three arriving in private jets instead of something that could have/should have been wonderful; and 3) the masses seemed flat, likely because they also sensed the us vs. them vibe and oh yeah, that school teacher serving beer was hot!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:28:40 +0000

Plus gas here in SoCal is under $2.00 a gallon on my street corner.

I hope everything becomes free soon and we continue to have low taxes. This is so much better than Canada and Europe it’s not even funny. Heating costs are next to nothing when it’s 80 degrees year around.

By: john.jones.name

john.jones.name — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:21:52 +0000

this is exactly why EU funded Tribler

https://www.Tribler.org

they have “funding for the next four years to deliver a number of enhancements to Tribler, covering live P2P streaming, an improved user interface, inbuilt friend/taste recommendations and much more.”

they aim to build Mac, Windows and GNU/Linux clients, as well as a dedicated hardware Set Top Box client, to allow them to deliver the core technical goals: an open standards-based “next-generation” internet television distribution system, using P2P and social interaction.

CDN is not a great thing for the internet a P2P system actually is
(but a CDN is something that you need right now)

regards

John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk

By: Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers | American News World - News And Technology

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:02:11 +0000

[...] the last few weeks that Google had to rely on a third party content delivery network to make the YouTube Live live concert stream properly at scale. Despite the fact that Google has it’s own quite impressive CDN, [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:54:32 +0000

sorry, ignore this, I hit the post comment button twice and refreshed.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:53:21 +0000

There it is.

http://lh5.ggph...g/twscrewed.jpg

I got the $50 a month Time Warner 7x high speed for $29 a month through a bridgevine offer, which I found with Google adsense results.

I’m going totally sans cable and using playon with my PS3.

Now all my utilities will be on. Wish me luck. TW wanted well over $100 a month when I went to their site and tried to sign up.

$30 a month for standard high speed Road runner, then I am going to use playon for all my TV stuff with Hulu and Youtube and my PS3 as the player.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:51:08 +0000

There it is.

http://lh5.ggph...g/twscrewed.jpg

I got the $50 a month Time Warner 7x high speed for $29 a month through a bridgevine offer, which I found with Google adsense results.

I’m going totally sans cable and using playon with my PS3.

Now all my utilities will be on. Wish me luck. TW wanted well over $100 a month when I went to their site and tried to sign up.

$30 a month for standard high speed Road runner, then I am going to use playon for all my TV stuff with Hulu and Youtube and my PS3 as the player.

So 30x 6 months, then $46 for the other 6 months. I use my G1 as my phone and that’s $25 for the data plan and $29 + 5 for international calling @ $0.09 a minute for the TMobile G1 phone so my total yearly TV/Phone/Internet w/3G will be

30*6 = 180 // 6 month RR offer
46*6 = 276 // other 6 months of Road runner 7x high speed
59*12 = 708 // T-Mobile Google HTC G1 Phone w/$25 unlimited data plan + $29 400 SMS + phone plan +$5 reduced international rates

So $1164 per year

If I had the TW 3 in 1 HD package @ 125 a month plus the AT&T iphone pacakge it would be $1500 a year for TW 3in1 + the base iPhone package @ $80 a month * 12 = 960

So it would be $2460 a year if I was somebody like Scoble or something.

So by using YouTube/Hulu/Netflix watch online ect.. I save roughly $1300 a year plus taxes and applicable fees. AT&T and TW fees are not insignificant.

I think this is going to be the way of the future. People are sick of monopolies. I’m not supporting Time Warner.

By: Sinha

Sinha — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:31:56 +0000

It was a nice way to start the Sunday morning from India watching it without much of latency issues ! (thanks to Akamai?!)

http://www.glob...lvideoworks.com

By: DNA

DNA — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:30:29 +0000

Yup, the whole point was to showcase non-professional talent, which is what makes youtube such an awesome thing.
Time to end the Read-Only culture and bring in the Read-Write culture. Larry Lessig will be a happy man, if he’s watched this:)

By: Insider

Insider — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:16:40 +0000

@Mogulus CEO- You sound kinda pathetic in my opinion.