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Justin.tv has been a major player in streaming video for over 4 years now. When the website first came online the purpose was streaming mobile video with a web cam, small laptop and a mobile broadband card. Now 4 years later JTV is finally releasing their 1st application on a mobile phone platform. Today the Justin.tv application was released to the android market. Being a lifecaster just became a whole lot easier. Maybe we should start calling is droidcasting since it is coming from an android phone.

Justin.tv Broadcaster Android App

The Justin.tv application is currently available to all android phones running android 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. It is a very simple application to use. Just log into your Justin.tv account, choose which social network you want to share your broadcast with and then hit the giant red record button. Within seconds you are streaming live video to your Justin.tv channel. Also included in the app is chat. Currently you can only broadcast with the application but the guys over at Justin.tv are hard at work building in the ability to watch video on the phone which would make this app so much more epic. The entire Justin.tv experience inside one application would be awesome. It is coming and hopefully it is out very soon.
The following video is narrated by the one and only Justin Kan. He gives you a little demo of how everything works in the new application. Don’t mind his voice. He thinks he could have been a voice over person for movies. After this video I am going to say he has no future is voice work.

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Rumors are flying around the internet that Yahoo is going to offer a “lifecasting” service. It is reported that the service is only open to Yahoo employees for the moment. The url for the new service looks like it will be http://live.yahoo.com/. It is currently giving a 403 forbidden error when you go to that address so we are all blocked out. I’m hoping Yahoo will make a formal announcement about the service. We need more details.

One thing that is kind of annoying me is everyone using the term “lifecasting”. This new service will have very little lifecasting going on. My predictions are that this new Yahoo service will be just another chatcasting site. What I mean by chatcasting is users will be sitting in front of their computer with the web cam on them and they will be chatting with viewers. This is not lifecasting! Lifecasting to me is broadcasting your everyday events. It is about being mobile and letting others peek in to what you are doing for the day. This is going to be just another web cam site where 15 year old girls fire up their cam and dance around while a bunch of horny guys say immature and stupid comments. We will have to wait and see but I don’t think anything new or innovative will be coming from Yahoo’s new service. What do you think about it?

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