Mazy

Nice, where is your list of celebs coming from?

By the way, the tweets don't scroll up correctly in chrome, and I think it'd make more sense if new tweets showed up on top and the list moved down.

Everything featured on the top half of the front page on http://ustream.tv/ is live. Below that there are highlights, and upcoming events, both clearly marked. When watching a live stream, the watermark in the top right corner says Live, if it's a recorded video it says Pre-Recorded. The thing is, you are not going to find this content on youtube, as it was all captured live on either service.

Soulja Boy has monetized extremely well - he sold a _lot_ of ringtones, has had 3 number 1 singles now, and has said that he has over 25 million dollars in the bank. He turned a viral video into a career, and it's amazing. And remember, he's only 18.

Facebook has over 200 million users. It's more than just "twenty somethings".

Ustream won, too. Nice to see live video breaking through.

I think he's referring to the bandwidth needed on the broadcast side. It's not much, 300 Kbps up will do, but there are plenty of times where people do these events on shared connections etc. Always frustrating.

The problem is that if there is this cheaper version for netbooks that's good enough, OEMs will just buy that and put it on all their boxes.

Summary: Everyone received 1 year in prison. They plan to appeal, which means the final verdict could take years. The website and tracker are staying up.

how is the Comcast 50? I am considering getting it, but I'm worried because they advertise it as "up to" 50. What speeds are you getting from it?

Comcast recently rolled out (last month) 50 Mbps down / 5 Mbps up, they call it Extreme 50, it's $140/mo.

I may have missed it, but why do you think this has to do with the Xmen movie?

I don't think it's possible to register a 2-letter .me

We will definitely be putting an explanation on the site. A good explanation can be found here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_retweet

Basically, when you see someone tweet something you find interesting, something you'd like to share with your friends/followers, you copy and paste their message, and usually put RT @username at the beginning. This helps ideas spread through twitter. We're taking away the need to copy + paste, and putting the retweet request in the URL itself to help with the 140 character limit.

retweeting is something already done by the twitter community. At the moment if you have something that you want to encourage your followers to spread, the most you can do is say "Please Retweet!" (which a lot of people do - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=please+retweet ). We are just trying to make an action that people already do, easier.

The way we did it makes it more useful for the whole community, and helps ideas spread through twitter. It lowers the friction to retweet. Also, most users are not likely to go to a twitterpedia site, pleaseRT.me is viral by definition, and gets the idea right in their face.

Retweeting is something the twitter community has invented; there is still no built in functionality for it. As more and more people sign up for twitter, they have to continuously be educated on what retweeting is and how to do it. We are trying to make retweeting easier.

Private trackers all fight to get the torrents up as soon as the shows pre. I'd recommend http://ninjavideo.net - They fight for pre, but are public, and offer direct downloads as well as letting you watch via the DivX web player. Firefox/chrome/google are now labeling it as malicious, but I haven't seen any evidence of that.

Are you including the cost of storage when calculating the cost of serving static video?

It is very cool that so many people are using the site, the problem though seems to be that the majority of the traffic is for illegal content. They have shown cases of big legitimate use, like the Jonas Brothers web chats, and the Keke Palmer web chat, however day-to-day it seems to be for sports, TV shows, and movies.

Justin.TV is quantified: http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv

including embedded players: http://www.quantcast.com/p-16uNVwiyGoWyg

Also, some real-time data: http://live.justin.tv/

I highly doubt comscore is claiming to be tracking embed/widget traffic. Those numbers are supposed to be for the site itself.

They are quantified, and quantcast shows the vast majority of their traffic is to their destination: http://www.quantcast.com/scribd.com

see scribd.com vs The Scribd Network

This is absolutely relevant to entrepreneurs and HN. This is a real web business with real revenue really going public.

Tinyurl has a way to show you the domain before sending you there: http://preview.tinyurl.com/69buwm

I'll definitely be there, that's right across the street

I'll go if you give me a ride.

While I love this talk, it's pretty old. it was posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100821