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Well, it was fun while it lasted. Yahoo Live went, er… live earlier this evening, and promptly keeled over and died<\/a>. At last check (10:20 p.m. EST), a featured “performer” named JT The Bigga Figga was actually moving on camera, but the audio sounded like someone playing a 78 rpm record at 33 and 1\/3 rpms — although I know some of my younger readers probably won’t even know what I’m talking about with that analogy. <\/p>\n Just before the super slow-mo audio feature, there was a big popup saying “we’re experiencing heavy traffic and have run out of capacity,” and also suggested that users come back “when our servers have stopped smoking. Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read\/Write Web tried to broadcast live<\/a>, but was also brought down by lack of bandwidth and\/or server space. As Valleywag noted<\/a>, maybe Brad Horowitz shouldn’t have said on Twitter that Live was up and to “help us crush it with load<\/a>.” Consider it crushed, Brad.<\/p>\n While it was up and running, though, it looked like a pretty killer “life-streaming” product (although the videos aren’t stored anywhere, as TechCrunch notes<\/a>, which is kind of a big drawback). It’s slick-looking, and easily as polished as Mogulus.com or Stickam or Ustream or Blogtv.com. If it can stay up, that is. I have to wonder though — as a commenter did on one of the blogs I read — how long it will be before YouTube launches something similar. It’s not rocket science.<\/p>\n![yahoo-live.png](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/yahoo-live.png?w=525\")
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