by Lee Mathews on April 11, 2011 at 08:35 AM

Not content with limiting its dominance in streaming uploaded videos, YouTube is now ready to take on competitors like Justin.TV and Ustream. The new YouTube Live service is being rolled out to select YouTube partners and will enable real-time broadcasting. In its official announcement, Google states that "The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on October 22, 2010 at 04:45 PM

Online live video streaming service Ustream has announced a couple of new features today: Open Pay-Per-View and Ad-Free Broadcasting. Both are coming soon.
If you're a Ustream user, Open Pay-Per-View will allow you to charge people for viewing your content. You will have to apply to Ustream to be able to take advantage of this feature, and once you're approved you will be able to charge for the ...
by Sebastian Anthony on September 13, 2010 at 04:30 AM

From the oh dear Lord, it's about time department: YouTube, over the next two days, is conducting a trial of its new live streaming platform.
This first test will see live content streamed by four of its partners: Howcast, Next New Networks (Barely Political), Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. Admittedly I haven't heard of any of them -- and I'm more interested in watching the season finale of ...
by Jay Hathaway on December 9, 2009 at 04:30 PM

Ustream, the popular streaming web video service, has just won the race to bring live streaming video to the iPhone. There have been a few almost-there attempts. People got their hopes up about Qik, but its video uploads weren't live. Ustream launched an iPhone app, but it was a viewer, not a broadcaster. Then, an app called Knocking made 1-to-1 video streaming possible. None of these previous ...
by Jay Hathaway on November 26, 2009 at 06:30 PM

Android users have been able to broadcast video to Ustream.tv for a couple of months now, but there was no way to watch Ustream shows on your Android phone until now. Ustream Viewer has just hit the Android Market, allowing for free, unlimited on-the-go viewing of the popular video site.
Ustream Viewer will work over either wi-fi or 3G. The iPhone version of Ustream Viewer has been around since ...
by Jay Hathaway on November 16, 2009 at 04:45 PM

TinyChat has evolved from an ultra-light chatroom service (no sign-up required) into a quick way of setting up video chats. Now it's going one step further, launching a stream video service similar to UStream. This new project is called Tinychat.tv, and anyone can use it to start their own web-based broadcast.
Tinychat.tv pages are customizable, and bandwidth is free and unlimited, making ...
by Paul O'Brien on September 18, 2009 at 09:00 AM

uStream.tv have just released 'uStream.tv Android Broadcaster' on the Android Market.
The new application - a free download - allows you to stream video directly to the uStream site via 3G or WiFi, or alternatively record higher quality video offline for uploading later.
Additional features include support for GPS location, embedded chat with users watching the stream on the uStream ...
by Brad Linder on November 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Yahoo! is pulling out of its quest to bring live video streams of mundane things to the masses. The company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo! Live on December 3rd. Much like startups Justin.tv and UStream, Yahoo! Live provided anyone with a webcam with the tools to stream video over the internet and interact with large groups of people. Yahoo! Live has been around since early this ...
by Brad Linder on March 27, 2008 at 05:00 PM

Comcast has agreed to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. Well, kind of. What Comcast is really promising is to develop a "capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic." In other words, Comcast still reserves the right to limit your downloads, but hopes to develop a method that will do this whether you're using a web browser, FTP client, or BitTorrent software. Gee, that makes us ...
by Chris Gilmer on April 18, 2007 at 12:00 PM

Conferences for free, remote meetings at minimal costs, and personal tv shows for nothing, that's what the future of video is about. We covered Ustream earlier this month, but now is the chance to check it out in a live test. Ustream is a free online service that allows users to create and watch live streams, as well as chat with other viewers online. It is extremely simple to setup, and only ...
by Grant Robertson on April 3, 2007 at 10:00 PM

Pretty soon we'll all be live on the web. If you're aching to stream every moment of your day live to shut-ins internet users, Ustream.tv may have you covered. Recently, and for reasons that are totally inexplicable, Justin.tv has shown that there might be a market for the live streaming experience that is one mans daily life. Watching Justin.tv is just so, two weeks ago; With Ustream, you can ...