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Yahoo! Live video streaming service is dead
Yahoo! Live has been around since early this year, and represented one of the first efforts from a major web company to get involved with live, social video streaming. While it's tempting to read into the company's decision to shutter the service, the truth is that Yahoo! never really promoted the service widely and it doesn't appear to have been very popular. It's quite possible that companies whose sole purpose is to make this business model work will have an easier time coming up with a way to make live video streaming profitable.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Todd said 12:51PM on 11-04-2008
Brickhouse has always said Live was an experiment, so something that was never "alive" cannot "die"...
You can keep up to date with the experiment's results and how the usage data collected may be used in future Yahoo products on the Next blog:
http://next.yahoo.net
( If you use Qik, you can probably guess )
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Cupcake said 1:47PM on 11-04-2008
Oh well, it was kinda good while it was alive :p
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bssam100 said 6:33PM on 11-04-2008
it`s well it was kinda surprise while it was alive
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