Justin.tv Sticker Spotted In Vienna!

Saw this recently taken from Vienna, Austria!




Have Justin.tv sticker shots? Email them to phil [at] justin.tv!

Video Playlist is here!

Under Bill's leadership, we've just released a new feature: Video Playlists. Now, any broadcaster can setup a playlist of their past episodes and any videos they import from Youtube that will be played on their channel when they aren't broadcasting. Broadcasters check it out by going to your settings and clicking "Playlist"!

Other features added:

• Twitter for broadcasters! We added a feature that automatically twitters for you when you go live! Broadcasters put you twitter username and password into your Settings.
• Create episodes directly from the broadcaster! You can now easily create episodes by clicking record when you want to start, and then clicking stop and giving the episode a title, all from the broadcaster. 100% of your broadcasted video will still be saved like before, but with this tool you can easily create more episodes.

Have a great weekend!

Justin

Friday, which means another release!

It's Friday, which means we just rolled out another release. Here's what we did this week (well, the things you can see... we're working a lot of things in the background to make JTV run more smoothly):

• Fixes to the Good broadcaster - This should work much more consistently on OSX computers now.
• Notifications - We moved chat notifications up to above the chat box, and added a few more. Now, you'll get notified every time a favorite channel goes live. Finally, a reason to add more favorites!
• Admin badges - Justin.tv employees now have a badge that says "Staff" next to their name. Members of the JTV Volunteer Response Squad now have "Admin" next to theirs. Take that all you fakers!
• New Highlight Player - Our highlight player is much improved and should be much quicker now. Check it out!
• Block friend requests - Don't want non-stop friend requests from Emmett? Block him!
• Per Language Directory - Now sort channels by language in the directory!
  

Like what you see? Tell us at info [at] justin.tv or in the Help channel!

Tech talk (hackertv)

There will be no tech talk on hackertv this week. Instead, Ethan Herdrick of The Biographicon is going to talk about running a startup on Scheme next week.

Here's the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7721873963

Justin.tv Music Week!

This week starting Monday bands will be descending upon the airwaves of justin.tv for live performances, interviews and chat sessions. Justin.tv is quickly becoming the destination for watching live music, chatting with your favorite bands, and participating in cool giveaways.

Want to be a part of music week? There's still time left! Email phil@justin.tv to get featured!

Here's the initial lineup. More bands and times will appear as they are added.

justin.tv/thehighstrung / myspace.com/thehighstrung

Coming out of Detroit Michigan and getting ready to record their new album, the High Strung will be playing and chatting live with fans from all across the universe. Tune in Tuesday at 7:30pm pacific.

justin.tv/theruse / myspace.com/rusemusic

Indie rock band from LA and featured musicians on MTV's The Hills, the Ruse will be live Wednesday at 7:30pm pacific to chat with you. They're recording new songs in Santa Monica and will be there live to give you an update!

justin.tv/killola / myspace.com/killola

LA rock band Killola are about the release a new album available for pre-order right now. Pre-ordering immediately gets you a downloadable single available on killola.com/preorder! Come chat with them on Friday the 18th at 8pm pacific.

justin.tv/thejwayshow / myspace.com/warnerdrive

The guys of The Jway Show will be interviewing Jonny, lead singer for LA-based rock band Warner Drive on Thursday the 18th. The Jway Show happens every Thursday at 7:30pm pacific featuring local artists and entertainment.

justin.tv/pigeonjohn / myspace.com/pigeonjohn

Hip hop artist and TV host Pigeon John will be live to his fans before a show in LA on Friday the 18th. Come see what's up and check out his latest album, The Summertime Pool Party, available in stores now!

New Video Server Beta and Chat Features!

We just rolled out this week's release. From chat you can now do the following awesome things:

• An archiver that actually works! We re-did the archiver so that you can now actually find and make highlights easily!
  
• Change your chat color! Now you can finally make your username pink.
• /find people on the network! Type "/find justin" to find where I'm at on Justin.tv!
  
• /invite your friends. Type in "/invite friends" to invite all your friends on JTV to the room you're watching.
• Many more chat features! Check them all out in the chat guide.

You can also now help us out by trying out our new video server. A link to it is available on the broadcaster. If you have any problems with the new video server beta, please let us know by emailing info [at] justin.tv.

New Channel Page Layout

First off, this post should have been written before we rolled out the new features. My bad :(

We've enlarged the video on everyones channel and in doing so have widened the pages to 950 pixels. Your headers should have scaled on their own but if they did not, you can re-upload or create new ones at that size.

Enjoy the new page!

Update: we also have switched from .PNG to .GIF for all channel headers. The size of the files was slowing page-load and bogging down the servers!

New Front Page for Justin.tv

We've just released a bunch of new features to the site! Check them out:

• New Front Page - We built a system to allow us staff to easily feature and highlight interesting content around the site, as well as get some more attention to some of the features you might not have seen before, like Challenges and Schedule. If you are a broadcaster who wants to be featured, fill out the form at the bottom of the front page and let us know!
• Private Channels - Broadcasters who create a new account will now be able to add a password to that channel. That channel is now private, and won't show up on any lists on the site. Share the password only with people that you like.
• Extended Viewer Profiles - Viewer profiles now include all highlights and challenges created and events subscribed to by that viewer.
• Pick your Top 8 fans - Broadcasters can now show their love to their fans on channel pages.
  
• Forum - Express your views and talk to staff at the Justin.tv Forums.
• Badges - Get a badge like the one in the right column of this blog!

More site improvements will be coming soon!

Improving Audio Quality

In order to get the highest quality audio you must use either the "Good," encoding option utilizing Sorenson, or use Flash Media Encoder 2 and select mp3 as the audio codec.

Adam Beguelin (Truveo.com) talking at Justin.tv tomorrow

My good friend Adam Beguelin is giving a talk at the Justin.tv office tomorrow as part of our series of live tech-talks.

These talks are open to anyone. The Justin.tv office is at 36 Clyde Street, San Francisco. If you can't attend in person you can watch the talk live on the HackerTV channel, where you can participate in the live Q&A session via our on-site chat. If you don't catch the talk live, you can see it archived on that channel page later.

The event has a Facebook page.

Post Exit Startup Wisdom Adam Beguelin, PhD

Starting a company is an exciting, frustrating, and sometimes rewarding endeavor. I've done four startups, founding two. I've been through IPOs, acquisitions, near acquisitions, and the Venture Capital Nuclear Winter of 2001-2003. This talk covers some of the lessons I've learned along the way. I'll talk about raising money, spending money, and some opinions on how to build and release software in a Web 2.0 world.

Adam was the CTO and co-founder of Truveo, a leading video search engine acquired by AOL in December 2005. He is currently retired and living with his family in his wife's native country of Vietnam.