Matt Schlicht, Product
When Steve Jobs talks there is almost a religious feel to his words – people listen and are mesmerized. Whatever Steve says is truth – whatever Steve presents is gold.
The Apple WWDC is extremely exclusive – reserved to those with influence and power. A mere hand full of people actually made it into the much anticipated Steve Jobs keynote thus leaving the masses in the dark.
Ustream.tv solved this.
The keynote was streamed LIVE to nearly three hundred thousand people total and nearly sixty thousand at any given time. That is amazing. Those hundreds of thousands of people did not have to wait a couple hours to find out what was said, they didn’t need to sit alone in their room twiddling their thumbs – Oh no – The masses gathered on Ustream.tv and together listened LIVE to Steve Jobs unveil the 3G iPhone. In the moments leading up to it they nervously talked in the chat room and once announced cheered together. The excitement gave me chills.
We are honored to have provided this. There are so many events world wide that are just itching to be streamed. There are so many people aching to watch. It’s up to you to stream it.
Contact us at events@ustream.tv if you need help with promotion or set up. We want you to have the most flawless live stream ever and we will do everything and more to make sure that happens.
Thank you for creating shows and building this community. It is you, the Ustreamer, who is making live video huge. Now lets step it up a notch.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Nicely done keeping up with all that! I was watching/listening and it was great!
June 11th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Great..so, ¿where is the clip?
June 11th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I was in an airport, stranded, scratching myself like a junkie because I was missing the keynote (plane delayed to SFO). I was linked to the ustream version of it. I felt like I went through rehab. Say no to drugs kids, but say YES to ustream.
-jlb
June 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Yes, very nicely done! Thanks to uStream/staff that was watching over the event making sure things went smooth!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
u Stream really is becoming a gam changer – great work guys
June 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
i wasnt there but it sounded ausome but i did see it at http://www.apple.com
June 14th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Nice Community, Nice Work
Keep it up and Have FUN!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] I know that over the years a few people have asked if there is any way to watch Apple and Steve Jobs keynotes live. Well now it seems that there is a way with Ustream. Ustream is a service that allows users to broadcast live audio and video feeds across the internet, as well as have a live chat as well (basically IRC). For WWDC they had a live video feed of the keynote. Pretty awesome stuff. I’ve used Ustream before, and it is pretty awesome. Link [...]
June 21st, 2008 at 4:52 am
Was it the direct Apple feed or was it a camera in the audience?
January 20th, 2010 at 6:26 am
It was an amaxing event.. look forward to more ustream dates