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Justin.TV: A Site Warhol Would Relish

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A pretty good article. Congratulations on the nice hit to the Justin.tv guys. It definitely touches on the interesting question of whether there will ever be a "YouTube of Live Streaming". My opinion is that the best any of the current sites could hope for in the near future is to be around 1,000th the size of YouTube. That's still a really big deal and I think there's definitely huge potential for more than that in the future.

Wow, congratulations to justin.tv -- great article! Fantastic work to get in the New York Times well after launch.

It also shows that when it comes to getting PR, you can't beat offbeat. Reporters love ventures like j.tv that are doing something way out of the mainstream.

The comparison to the Al Franken SNL skit was very amusing and appropriate. I'm surprised I hadn't heard that before.

I think more interactivity would help. Viewers could have more influence on lifecasters.

Yes, I hope they open an API soon! I want to create some JTV widgets for my channel!

Besides being used to broadcast your life this could be used with some development for video conferencing or group video chat. Video Skype through a browser.

I embedded my friends Ustream video into my JTV channel and we were able to have a conversation, albeit an extremely delayed one.

Congrats on the article Justin!

The question, though, is how does one add API calls to Justin, and, more importantly, Justine...this is not a trivial FFI problem.

My thinking is they would open their platform to the developer community. Like Facebook and Joost, for example.

Somebody help this man...I think he may be dying from a lack of humor (or maybe I'm not nearly as funny as I think I am...that's also possible).

Oh, the plane traveled over me about 64 miles ago!

Im a web/graphic designer, eager to learn some coding skills and now coding humor too :)

Their technology is cool and innovative, but the article suggests users are required to broadcast 24/7? Is that true? Wouldn't it be better to allow people to broadcast only when they think something interesting is going on?

No, people can broadcast just as often as they want.

J.TV & YC's PR skills are awesome. pg, who does PR for YC companies these days? How do you guys manage to get into these amazing publications?

Perhaps it is just because what Justin.tv is doing is innovative? They were featured on the Today Show early on as well.

We don't have a PR firm and I don't think J.TV does either. They're just doing something colorful.

Or not,

but because the medium is perfectly suited to Mr. Warhol's taste..."I like boring things," he once wrote

I guess the site might make its millions by stroking people's vanity (which is why I suggested a while back to rename it to something that doesn't so obviously stroke someone else's vanity, viz, Justin Kan), but it's so wrist-cuttingly dull I don't even want to think about it. I really hope it was more than high costs that marginalized Cinema verite so many years ago--perhaps that viewers want something more than voyeurism.

I thought it was also a clever play on "just in" as in "this just in".

it is

The idea of letting everyone broadcast is colorful, even if the median broadcast is not.

cool

downvoted?!

Well, your comment was almost completely content-free. Perhaps a down-mod is unjustified, but why bother posting the comment in the first place?

in what world is exactly not allowed to show your enthousiam? and what is content-free anyways?

is there a law i must always contribute 2 million paragraphs to show my opinion?

It's not that you're not allowed to show "enthousiam"; the point is that you might get downmodded if your comment doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the discussion. Expressing your opinion is all well and good, but why post a comment if you don't have anything interesting to say?

(And IMHO whining about downmodding doesn't exactly help your case.)

whining? are you really serious? if thats how you realize my comment I don't even have to lose my time reading what you just said.

by the you can downmod me how much you want. i dont care about my karma. i dont say anything here for karma anyway

I guess the NYTimes could find nothing else to report on. I'd rather read about a puppy being rescued from a pipe. Hell, I'd rather watch that happen than watch another "Startup Dot Com" crashing live before my eyes.

I hope this ends up as badly as weliveinpublic did.

Josh Harris, was it you that downvoted me?

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