JTV translated to Italian!

Justin.tv has been translated to Italian, thanks to fkvllaznia, juveforever, john_lennon, and surianam. Thanks, guys!

New Friday, New Features

One cool new feature this week is a feed of recent actions on user profiles. You can now see a short summary of what someone has done recently, with awesome links! I think this will really help give a better sense for what my friends are doing around the site.

We added a new broadcasting feature from SeeToo which lets you broadcast any movie file from your desktop straight to Justin.tv. You can scroll through the file at will and switch files on the fly. Budding VJs, take note!

I've also put in a number of performance fixes, and I'll be releasing more throughout the week.

Justin.tv invents a second job title: Scalability Engineer

From the team that brought you "lifecaster", we bring a new job category: Scalability Engineer.

We made up "Scalability Engineer" as a job title while brainstorming about how to describe the next person we wanted to hire. I hope it does become an established category, because maybe then it would be easier to find one!

We're regular readers of highscalability over at Justin.tv, so I'm flattered to see our new job posting linked to from there.

Justin.tv is Hiring a Producer!

Justin.tv is looking for a Producer! The job description is below; if you know someone who is in to music and other live content, and would be good at working with partners, let them know!

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Justin.tv is the biggest Flash live video site online. We provide free live video and chat channels to anyone who wants to easily broadcast something to the web. We serve hundreds of thousands of video streams a day, and get millions of visitors a month. The site is rapidly growing, and in order to continue to bring awesome bands, events, and other content on the site, we're looking to hire a Justin.tv Producer.

As a Producer you will be the team member responsible for bringing interesting and entertaining live broadcasts to our site (music stars, movie stars, major events, etc.). Connections in the entertainment/music industry, good overall technical knowledge, the ability to create visual and print media, and the will to work 10x harder then the competition are a must.

The producer will be expected to:

- Attract top musical talent to the site
- Work with major record labels
- Attract large venues to broadcast performances live
- Attract popular radio stations to broadcast live
- Plan, coordinate, setup, and promote online events
- Deliver large audiences to the site
- Track and optimize web traffic to online events
- Effectively create and manage relationships with all Justin.tv content partners

Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and manage others
- Exceptional work ethic, independent, and the ability to learn quickly
- Desire to work in a fast paced environment where job requirements sometimes change
- Ability to build out and lead the production team at Justin.tv
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Located in the SF Bay Area

Justin.tv is still a small company (<10 people), and we are looking for someone who will be a core member of a fun, fast paced team. We believe in building awesome products that normal people like to use, and need you to help bring amazing content to the site! We're located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, one block from the Caltrain station. We have an NBA Jam machine, Xbox 360, 100" projector, all the free energy drink you desire, and catered lunches.

To apply, please email arram[at]justin.tv with your resume and a cover letter with some thoughts on how you would be effective at the role of Producer. Justin.tv is an equal opportunity employer.

Welcome JTV Interns!

Justin.tv has two new interns who started this week. Arram comes on board as a Project Manager intern (helping me with everything from hiring to planning products), and Kenny is our Programming intern (he'll work on video, chat, and search). Also, we'd like to welcome my friend Kevin to JTV, who has joined us as a full time member of the team! If you see any new staff around the site, say hi!

Weekly Featured Release

Just rolled out our weekly release. This week we got the following things done:

• Broadcasters can turn links off in chat
  
• Search now indexes tags
• New and improved bug report form to help us better track down problems!
• Many random improvements and bug fixes behind the scenes...

Ok, I know it was a little light this week, but that's only because we're prepping for a big release next week... JTV'ers, get ready for Networks!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend,

Justin

Newest Justin.tv Staff

Hi there! As you all probably saw, last week Justin.tv announced they were looking for a Community Manager to join the JTV team. They found that person and it happens to be me! Hurray!

I'm really excited to be apart of the JTV team and I'm even more excited to start the process of getting to know all of you. I have a pretty open door policy, I will try to do as much broadcasting on my channel as possible and I'm hoping to be lounging around the office cam channel and help. I'll be taking over Office hours for Phil and looking to do a new line up.

So to tell you a little about myself, I'm a geeky 26-year-old lady living in the SF bay area. I'm a gamer, musician, artist and kind of all around jill-of-all-trades. Oh, I'm also an Esperantist! If any of you JTVers happen to be into it or are learning, hit me up!

If you want to get a chance to know me better feel free to hit me up on my JTV Email tia-marie@justin.tv. Don't get offended if I don't respond right away! I want to hear from you! Do you have a suggestion on how we can make JTV better? Great! Send me your questions, comments and concerns. l will do my best to get back to you in a timely manner!

--Tia Marie

Thanks JTV for Bay to Breakers!

This year we had an awesome time at Bay2Breakers with the JTV team. Not all of us (or even most of us) finished the race, but we definitely showed up in style! Thanks Krystyl for organizing!

New Release: Privacy Controls, Inbox Controls, and more!

We just rolled out our weekly Friday release a day early! Here's what's new today:

• Inbox Controls. Select all your messages, mark them as read, or delete them with many fewer clicks!
• Hide Chat and Chat History. Now you can hide chat and/or chat history from your channel if you'd like.
• Fixed Bandwidth Detector. The bandwidth detector on the broadcaster should work now, yay!
• Turn off your live embed. You can now choose to make your content not embeddable.
• Many, many bug fixes. Now when you update your settings, things should change immediately.

Have a great weekend,

Justin

Improved Search / Video

This week we rolled out some of Bill's improvements to Search - it now suggests when words are misspelled and includes all imported video clips - and we also moved our video entirely over to our new cluster, which should decrease load times significantly.

Here is a note from Kyle about the video improvements:

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know about the new video code that we released last night. I'm very proud of the improvements we've made to improve the quality of your broadcasts.

The big fixes are:

1. No more pink pixels / video distortion.
2. Audio / Video sync is much much better with the Good broadcaster. (Video sometimes lagged behind audio by about 90ms)
3. Video is running in our own data center, which means faster load times.
4. Fixed the "Not Broadcasting" message that sometimes appeared when you were actually broadcasting.

Known issues:

1. As of this morning, FME was not working for some users, and a very small percent of users could not broadcast at all. I found this bug (thanks to Jmann) and patched it, although it may continue to affect some users throughout the day.

2. Some users have reported that the Best broadcast will not broadcast audio. The Best broadcaster is an ActiveX plugin written by On2, so we can't fix it immediately but we have filed bug reports with their developers. In the mean time, you can use Flash Media Encoder to get the same great quality.

Please comment here if there is anything else you'd like me to take a look at or need help with!


Update: After the new updates we had a new high with over 45,000 simultaneous viewers today!

Justin.tv is hiring a Community Manager!

After getting all your valuable feedback, we're starting our search for a Community Manager. If you know someone who lives in the SF area and would be a good fit, pass this along:

Justin.tv is the biggest Flash live video site online. We provide free live video and chat channels to anyone who wants to easily broadcast something to the web. We serve hundreds of thousands of video streams a day, and get millions of visitors a month. The site is rapidly growing, and in order to meet the needs of our growing community, we're looking to hire our first Community Manager.

As our Community Manager you will be responsible for user support, community events, and making sure that Justin.tv is a fun experience for all members of the community. You will define priorities and figure out better ways to communicate with and engage the community. Success will require strong communication and task management skills, creativity, responsibility, follow up, and a good understanding of users' motivations online. Interacting with a community online and working with new and interesting broadcasters and viewers should be fun!

Job Responsibilities:

Manage the Community
- Organize and manage community admins
- Become a well known figure in the Justin.tv community
- Always be available to help users, answer questions, and address user concerns
- Be aware of happenings within our community, promoting user events and moderating disputes
- Keep track of and distribute Justin.tv broadcasting hardware
- Police content where necessary; respond to content takedown notices

Inform the Community
- Keep the community updated on site changes, outages, events etc...
- Host weekly live "Justin.tv office hours", where you will be on camera helping members of the community
- Answer all customer service emails quickly and thoughtfully and gather condensed feedback from the issues presented
- Regularly search for blog and forum posts about us and other live sites. Politely correct misconceptions and encourage people to give us a try.
- Creating both text and video for the Guides, Tutorials, and Help sections for the site

Creatively Engage the Community
- Regularly look at directory/new and spend a few minutes chatting with each new broadcaster to welcome them to the site
- Be passionate about thinking of new ways to engage the community
- Plan and host community events and contests

Showcase Content
- Keep the Justin.tv homepage updated throughout the day with fresh content
- Highlight top Justin.tv content on our blog
- Organize our regular broadcasts, including HackerTV

Work with the Developers
- Present user feedback in condensed, weekly reports during team meetings
- Work with the development team to create tools to make community management (your job!) easier
- Always have a general understanding of current development plan and outstanding bugs and bug fixes

Requirements:
- Strong familiarity with online consumer facing websites (You should know how to use Youtube, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook, etc; active engagements in online communities is a plus)
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and manage others
- Outgoing personality; comfortable enough to be in front of a camera occasionally
- Exceptional work ethic, independent, and the ability to learn quickly
- Desire to work in a fast paced environment where job requirements sometimes change
- Ability to build out and lead the community management team at Justin.tv
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Located in the SF Bay Area

Justin.tv is still a small company (<10 people), and we are looking for someone who will be a core member of a fun, fast paced team. We believe in building awesome products that normal people like to use, and need you to help us do it! We're located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, one block from the Caltrain station. We have an NBA Jam machine, Xbox 360, 100" projector, all the free energy drink you desire, and catered lunches.

To apply, please email justin[at]justin.tv with your resume and a cover letter with some thoughts on how you would actively make Justin.tv better. Justin.tv is an equal opportunity employer.

This week's release

You can now block bulletins with just one click! If you accidentally block someone you didn't mean to, you can go to your account settings to unblock them. We also pushed a whole bunch of small tweaks to the site that should make it faster and help accommodate our growing community. Let me know in the comments if there are any other small features that would make your life on Justin.tv easier!

Downtime

Sorry everyone for the down time this morning. Our connection to our bandwidth provider broke, and it took several hours to figure out what the problem was. We're looking into getting a backup bandwidth provider so that this won't happen again.

Justin