youtube.com/live

Since I have no life, I had nothing better to do Saturday night than to watch YouTube Live.

If you didn't know already, November 22, 2208 at 8:00 PM Youtube streamed their first live event. A show featuring mostly Youtube stars doing their thing live.

Once again, thank you Dan Rayburn for putting things in perspective.

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/11/youtubes-live-event-as-overhyped-as-the-company.html

RTMP live streaming from:

• Akamai : main CDN (primary and secondary)
• Highwinds : backup CDN (tertiary)

this means they where using:
Flash Media Streaming Server

Low, mid and high quality. Anyone figured out the exact bitrates?

Anyone knows the technical details of this webcast? I'm especially interested in knowing more about the encoding gear they used. 

Not one, not two, but THREE program feeds (on stage, back stage and off stage) that you could select whenever you felt like it.

Web page hosted on:
live.youtube.digitaria.com
Does anyone know about the relationship between Google and Digitaria?

They (obviously) are using the very popular SWFObject now hosted as a Google Code project
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Of course since Geoff Stearns (the guy who wrote it) is now working at YouTube.

http://blog.deconcept.com/about/

The guy on the profanity delay missed Bo Burnham signing the words "shit loads of money". America must have been so offended... Fortunately they corrected the mistake on the on demand clip.

The Visualizing Akamai page showed a peak for live streams over 950K. That close to one million concurrent live streams (picture me doing Dr. Evil here). Of course Akamai streamed other live content at that time but lets agree that the vast majority of it was YouTube's.
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html

interesting to see who gave money for this:

• a big movie company
• a video game
• a flight company
• a camcorder
• special thanks to a large PC vendor