"Justin.tv publicly launched its live, free streaming services this week, making the power of live video programming available to anyone with a computer, a web cam and an Internet connection.
On2 Flix Publisher Live is an innovative browser based plug-in that renders the user's browser into an encoding and publishing platform without any expertise, installation, or investment required by the user. The videos are encoded directly on the user's desktop and streamed live on the Internet by simply plugging a webcam into the computer and logging on. On2 Flix Publisher Live works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers."
This idea has been around for a long, long time, and I think there's a reason that no one has launched such a service until now.... it doesn't work. In theory, it's a nice concept -- give content hungry internet surfers their ultimate fantasy: the ability to produce their own LIVE programming and broadcast it over the internet for FREE. And as a second added bonus, be able to WATCH other people do it even worse..... for FREE.If you take a look at some of the content that's up right now, it's pretty bad and there isn't much of it. Seasoned youtubers aren't even going to look twice. If people were able to use the site to also air the content from their own websites, social networking pages, etc., I think it would catch on. But for now, just looks like another product that is about 3 or 4 years late.
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