Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Live UGC update

A while back I posted a few notes about Live UGC.
http://philpatrice.blogspot.com/2008/07/live-ugc.html

I've had the chance to meet with Arjun Saksena, Yahoo's Sr. Product Manager, Video Platform at the latest Streaming Media West conference in San José. Arjun is always surprised to see the enthusiasm that this Yahoo! Live experiment generates without any real advertisement.
http://live.yahoo.com

This week Yahoo! announced they would can their Live project.
http://yliveblog.com/blog/2008/11/03/stopping-our-broadcast/

I guess they haven't been able to figure out any real business model around it.