Justin.tv has opened its network, which means that anyone can now use its platform for broadcasting live video across the web. With its partnership with On2 Technologies, you can create your own Justin.tv experience. As a user you’ll get a personalized channel page, where you can customize the header, background, add widgets, etc.
As with most webcam communities, you can post a schedule of your upcoming shows and events. What hasn’t caught on with all webcam networks however is the ability to embed live video, which is a feature now offered on Justin.tv. This is something that will gain steam over the next year.
This move has been expected since the initial launching of Justin.tv, and it’s finally arrived. The next steps? Well, we’ve seen a growing trend of premium content being streamed live to other networks like Ustream. I imagine this ongoing merging of premium and amateur content in the online market will continue through to the webcam world.
While it was supposed to be Britney Spears’ comeback performance, MTV.com was the big winner after the falling star’s abysmal performance at the channel’s annual Video Music Awards.
The music site saw its traffic surge to record numbers as people visited to watch the ‘trainwreck‘ in action. MTV.com logged 2.6 million visitors on Sunday (remember the awards were held at night, so that wasn’t even a full day), making it the site’s highest-trafficked day ever. The following day the numbers reached a staggering 7 million streams.
Aaron Greenspan made the front page of the NY Times business section recently. The story written by John Markoff said Aaron claimed to be “the one who created the original college social networking system,” which eventually became Facebook. Aaron was interviewed by Vator.tv where he explains the “influence” he had in the early days of building Facebook. Aaron also shares a little about his new venture called Qubescape, which he calls a “Facebook for companies.” Aaron said it launches at the end of this month.
It seems, second season of video sharing is shaping up real well. France based Dailymotion has raised $34 million in venture funding. The investment round was participated by Advent Venture Partners LLP of London and AGF Private Equity of Paris.
Dailymotion had earlier raised $9.5 million last year.
