A while back I made a small tool for Alper to broadcast his thesis presentation live around the world to a small amount of people using flash on a macbook. So when I was listening to the This Week in Tech podcast I was amazed to hear the technical concept of ustream.tv. The concept is basically the same as my little tool: a flash component lets you stream your audio and video to their servers and you can then refer everyone to your own personal page. They even integrated chat (which I didn’t) but it’s a bit sad that this chat is implemented in Java. I think that with all the skills they have they could have done it all in Flash. I also regret the size of the video, but with a capacity of more than 2000 streams at 1 time I think they had to make some compromises somewhere.

Maybe this will open up the ability to others to share their thesis presentations live on the internet? Maybe Oliver or Eelke want to try it out?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 23:57 and is filed under video, webapplications.