Yahoo Live was a short lived project that let users broadcast live video on Yahoo. It was very similar to other live streaming services like Stickam, Justin.tv and Ustream and Blogtv, and it deadpooled less than a year after launching. Today the site has a message saying “kthxbai.”
Now someone is trying to bring back Yahoo Live as an independent service at Y!Undead. There is little information on the site, other than a sentence on the about page saying “From the ashes of Y!Live… [Insert cliché about Phoenix rising etc etc].”
We’ve heard speculation that former Yahoo employees who worked on Live are behind the new service. We’re looking into that, and trying to get into the service itself, which is in private beta, to have a look. If you have an account, please let us know.
Update: The site now says “1/20/09: Looks like we got TechCrunch’d. Just as a small note– we’re not affiliated with Yahoo or the Yahoo Live service in any meaningful way. We’re working with TokBox to roll out a webcam chat service similar to the likes of what died in December. We’ll keep you posted.”
To Yahoo: “Cant you see? anything you touch dies”:))
if you assume the double negative, nothings changed
Too bad Yahoo Live didn’t work. Yahoo fails again.
Mike,
Any thoughts on the new whitehouse.org web site, give us your take.
thanks
He has a really big bobble head!
Very important that they bring Yahoo Live back. I’ve often wondered where Yahoo Live’s 90% racist, homophobic user base has gone to demand “Tits or GTFO!!”.
This is definitely not owned or affiliated to Yahoo.
whois shows someone else, it isn’t yapache, and the sourcecode is from tokbox.
I don’t know where you get your information from dude, but you’re WAY off base with this being brought up by Yahoo! Live people. The site was set up to replace Yahoo! Live after it died by a small but close community of friends that met on YLive. We are in no way affiliated with Yahoo or any of it’s subsidiaries. We just have a simple webpage that uses an embedded tokbox page. That’s it! Nothing special.
Arrington just got soooo PWned by these video peeps.
Would love to see that live! Boooooooooyaaaaaaabababa
how?
ok dude, thanks for the information.
and just to be clear, nobody who worked on Y Live is affiliated with the product?
Hi Michael,
I am the person who set up the site. I set it up after learning about Tokbox’s video conferencing feature to create a home of sorts for some of the y!live “regulars”. I haven’t been in contact with anyone related to Yahoo, so nobody who worked on y!live is affiliated with the project.
Please send me an email if you’d like to chat.
ylive coming back from ex-yahoo employees?
that’s news to me, considering i was the lead dev on the project.
how’d that work out for ya?
Keith, this article says Eric Fixler was the lead developer on Y Live.
http://www.adob...&loc=en_us
“I can’t imagine having gotten this far this fast without Adobe Flex,” says Eric Fixler, lead developer for Y! Live.”
given how short lived the product was, it doesn’t seem likely there’d have been a change. explain?
i took over for eric when he left yahoo
Amusing. By ‘taking over’ Keith must be speaking pseudo-code for ‘in charge of shutting down the service and turning off the lights’. Sucks when people take credit for work they didn’t actually do!
IT’S NIG WINZ DAY ON NIG WEDNESDAY
the site sucks ass anyways
Fuck those idiots at yundead
Too bad everyone in yundead is a fucking homo.
thats nice but all the people i see on the yundead.com/blog are the repetitive idiots that made ylive into 4chan part 2 with their lame “jokes”. too bad ylive had to die, all other cam sites suck and i havent been on any one since.
how did he fail?
Warren Buffet once said.. if you are playing poker and you don’t know who the sucker is. Get up and leave because you are the sucker…
Arrington already asked, now youo David did too… I leave the conclusion up to you