Yahoo Live May Live Again As Y!Undead - TechCrunch
Tue, Jan 20th, 2009
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Yahoo Live was a short lived project that let users broadcast live video on Yahoo. It was very similar to other live streaming services like Stickam, Justin.tv and Ustream and Blogtv, and it deadpooled less than a year after launching. Today the site has a message saying "kthxbai."
Now someone is trying to bring back Yahoo Live as an independent service at Y!Undead. There is little information on the site, other than a sentence on the about page saying "From the ashes of Y!Live… [Insert cliché about Phoenix rising etc etc]."
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