Democratizing broadcast on AIR
Y! Live lets users display, hack, and mashup live video streams on websites or client applications and embed them into blogs, websites, and social networking pages. On Y! Live, there are limitless channels for many-to-many broadcasting and for tuning into other people’s channels. The video and audio are in real time, so as a user is watching someone’s channel or broadcasting their own, they can interact chat-room style with other co-viewers.
“Our plans for the Adobe AIR Y! Live application are that it will give users that precious ‘always-on’ experience that we want to offer to the semi-professional target audience. People won’t inadvertently close the application or navigate away from it,” says Quoc.
With the persistent presence of an Adobe AIR application, not only does Yahoo! better seal its brand, but users benefit from desktop notifications to stay constantly aware of when a Y! Live connection starts a broadcast or undergoes a change in status. “The notion of combining live TV and social interaction beyond the confines of a browser is paramount to us,” says Ted Chen, Senior Director, Business Development, Yahoo!.
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