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November 4, 2008
Yahoo! Live to Go Dark
Yahoo! Live, a live streaming video product build on Brickhouse, will stop broadcasting December 3, 2008. In a statement on the Yahoo! Live blog, the Keith Thornhill said:
Our mission here on the Brickhouse team is to quickly develop product ideas that can add value to Yahoo! as a whole. To do this effectively we constantly evaluate our early-stage products and sometimes have to make the hard decision to move on, in order to continue exploring new territory and developing new products.
I, for one, will always hold dear a Yahoo! Live memory from this past summer. My family had (finally) just gotten a Nintendo Wii and my daughter and I live broadcasted our earliest Wii Sports matches.
On the other hand, I won't miss the creepy people who had less than the best intentions with live streaming.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on November 4, 2008 11:31 AM
Comments
Sorry… but Yahoo is no longer a relevant search engine, by their own choice. Yahoo's ranking algorithm is inferior to Google's, and Overture can no longer matches the Google tools. It seems Yahoo is going to be just another (very good) directory and shopping facility.
Ben November 6, 2008 11:27 AM
No surprises. Yahoo has to terminate its couple services to overcome this crisis. Brickhouse is one them...
MGA November 18, 2008 5:40 PM
