Yahoo! Live Closing up Shop - Dec. 3rd

It is with much sadness that Yahoo! Live will be closing for good come December 3rd, 2008. For what has seemed like a success from the beginning, will end completely come early December. A blog posting on the Y! Live blog reads “Stopping our broadcast…” talking about the closure of the social webcam hangout that showed so much promise.

Be sure to catch the live townhall meetings on Wednesday at 3PM PST for more info. Here is the official posting about the ending of Yahoo! Live:

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.

So it is with great sadness that I share the news that Yahoo! Live, a Brickhouse project in social broadcasting will be going off the air on 3 December 2008. We’d like to thank everyone who has participated. Without all of you, Y!Live would not have built the strong community that it has. It has been really interesting (and entertaining) to see all of the ways broadcasters have used Live, developing it into a place for all sorts of social interactions.

We hope you can join us in our town hall this Wednesday to toast Yahoo! Live.  For more out of Brickhouse, check out the recently launched fire eagle, and keep an eye on next* to stay posted on what we’re doing next.

November 3, 2008 | Filed Under General | 13 Comments