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Justin.tv Opens Its API For Free, Hopes Live Video Will Explode
- amichail 17y agoI would use Justin.tv to broadcast demos live if there were a way to do live screencasts without a camera.
- kd5bjo 17y agoYou can, there are several programs that make your screen show up as a webcam. Also, we're currently working on getting VLC support up and running.
- amichail 17y agoIs there anything currently available for the Mac? Googling led to this for Windows: http://www.pcwinsoft.com/screencamera/landing.asp http://www.pcwinsoft.com/screencamera/landing.asp
- kvogt 17y agoyes, try camtwist: http://allocinit.com/index.php?title=CamTwist http://allocinit.com/index.php?title=CamTwist
- Mazy 17y agoHere's a great video tutorial made by CamTwist explaining the basics to using it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMUTvI3NAo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uMUTvI3NAo
- Mazy 17y agoCamTwist is fantastic for screencasting on a mac. Works great on http://ustream.tv http://ustream.tv
- amichail 17y agoWhich is the better service for live demos? Are they both free for commercial purposes?
- evansolomon 17y agoYou should try both and see what you like best. Mazy works for Ustream, I work for Justin.tv.
- michaelfairley 17y agoHow about Linux?
- Mazy 17y agoucanvcam should do the trick: http://code.google.com/p/ucanvcam/ http://code.google.com/p/ucanvcam/
- nopassrecover 17y agoI know I'll probably get downmodded for this as it's a bit tangential but I'm of the view Justin.tv should rename and rebrand itself. It sounds like someone's homepage and it's origins are based around the founder's personal video channel. It just doesn't sound like a site where people can share video themselves and doesn't reflect what it has really become. Just my 2 cents anyway.
- emmett 17y agoI can see where you're coming from, but we've built up a lot of brand equity in the Justin.tv name now, with tons of people coming to the site, links, etc. For more and more people, it's just a name, like "Fox" or "Warner Brothers". Most people don't even know about the original Justin.tv show, or who Justin is.
- fallentimes 17y agoBeat me to it by a minute :).
- dantheman 17y agoAhh, I always thought it was like Just In TV; with the emphasis on live, up to the minute broadcasts.
- nopassrecover 17y agoYeah I understand that but from a complete layman's perspective I still thought you might get a different category of person visiting (rather than those with an interest in tech). I thought you might need to rebrand to cross the chasm so to speak. I was concerned the name sounds a bit too gimmicky? I guess. But I wouldn't pretend to know more about your company than you though so if it's working out and you can build the brand name go for it!
- fallentimes 17y agoIt does if you consider it JustIn.tv. There's nothing wrong with having a brand name that doesn't explicitly say what the company does (reminds me of the Forest Gump quote "We invested in some apple company"). Their site get millions of visitors per month; they'd lose staggering amounts of brand equity at this point by changing names. Besides, I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of its users don't know the origins of Justin.tv.
- pegobry 17y agoIf they've found a way to stream video so incredibly cheaply why don't they just offer everything for free and make money as a CDN?