I'm glad they are killing this one.......Yahoo Live was PAINFUL compared to Ustream and Stickam.
Jay Neely
· 1 year ago
Could just be a Yahoo! problem, because of the layoffs and reorgs, but even so, I think that this shut-down, combined with the others Yahoo! has done over the past few months, clearly shows that Yahoo! has been taking a shotgun approach to creating new services. Some have been big hits, but a lot simply haven't gained traction.
I'm a big fan of Brickhouse, the division in Yahoo! charged with creating new services for Yahoo! the way a startup would. But I think their strategy so far has been to create services that they see a lot of interest in, from the web in general. That's not the right way to do things as a startup. If they really want to approach it like a startup, they need to ask, "What problems do Yahoo! users have, that we can solve?"
Yahoo! Live didn't solve a problem. None of their social network attempts solved a problem. Yahoo! Music and Yahoo! Auctions didn't solve problems that weren't already solved better by other companies.
Yahoo! has a huge userbase. Surely there are segments that have problems that Yahoo! can solve better than anyone else.
Adam Bateson
· 1 year ago
Not to worry, the internet will only get faster and cheaper and then we can all get involved.
get real
· 1 year ago
those compete numbers are extremely misleading. justin.tv is traffic by the boatload. take a look at comscore
JB
· 1 year ago
Justin.tv is getting sued for all its copyrighted content...
** Sob ** Bye Justin. LOL
Alan Sanders
· 1 year ago
JTV es KeWl man doun't nok it - I luV JTV Bro - I lik the soccer gamez on ther
Anrkist
· 1 year ago
The problem was they kept banning nudity. Who really wants to watch someone on Webcam just sitting and picking their nose.
Avatarx
· 1 year ago
The problem was that they didn`t anticipated how expensive the project would be and that Flex was not the right way to do it. i remember getting into a yahoo live channel packed with people and seeing all the resources of the PC getting eaten up completely to a point where i had to kill the browser in order to left the yahoo live room.
Judy Shapiro
· 1 year ago
Streaming video is no more a niche than cell phones might have been over a decade ago. The use of rich media -- video, audio, text in our social and communications lives will become more ubiquitous as bandwidth and the technology platforms that support them expands.
The fun part for people is that now they can easily apply whatever rich media they want within their social networks – text, audio or video. And they can easily choose to interact with people they know or with people they don’t with these new tools. These are powerful new choices that consumers are beginning to apply broadly within their lives.
In this sense, the video streaming space is no more a niche than Skype is a niche. I won’t speculate why Yahoo shut this down – but it can not be because the market is too small. Smart companies, like Paltalk are doing a fine job of monetizing streaming video (see article http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/seesmic-vs-...) so why Yahoo couldn’t make it work is anybody’s guess.
Judy Shapiro VP, Marketing Paltalk
Avatarx
· 1 year ago
Yes. Paltalk express is a perfect example of what yahoo live tried to do. but unlike yahoo. paltlak dev team knew that Flex alone would not cut it. that is why Paltalk Express uses a Flex/java implementation. so i think the problem was the Flex only backend. more because back when Yahoo Live got out. Flash 10 was not out. that alone would have meant 20% better performance.
Yo
· 1 year ago
Today (12/3/08) was the day it was to be shutting down. And, today, right now, at 3:40 EST Yahoo (main) and Yahoo Mail are having some serious problems. Conincidence, I don't think so.
All Comments
I'm a big fan of Brickhouse, the division in Yahoo! charged with creating new services for Yahoo! the way a startup would. But I think their strategy so far has been to create services that they see a lot of interest in, from the web in general. That's not the right way to do things as a startup. If they really want to approach it like a startup, they need to ask, "What problems do Yahoo! users have, that we can solve?"
Yahoo! Live didn't solve a problem. None of their social network attempts solved a problem. Yahoo! Music and Yahoo! Auctions didn't solve problems that weren't already solved better by other companies.
Yahoo! has a huge userbase. Surely there are segments that have problems that Yahoo! can solve better than anyone else.
** Sob ** Bye Justin. LOL
The fun part for people is that now they can easily apply whatever rich media they want within their social networks – text, audio or video. And they can easily choose to interact with people they know or with people they don’t with these new tools. These are powerful new choices that consumers are beginning to apply broadly within their lives.
In this sense, the video streaming space is no more a niche than Skype is a niche. I won’t speculate why Yahoo shut this down – but it can not be because the market is too small. Smart companies, like Paltalk are doing a fine job of monetizing streaming video (see article http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/seesmic-vs-...) so why Yahoo couldn’t make it work is anybody’s guess.
Judy Shapiro
VP, Marketing Paltalk