Red Faction: Guerrilla - Exclusive JTV live demo!

I'm really excited to be telling you guys about a broadcast coming to us tomorrow!

Volition Inc (developers of other titles like: Saints Row, Summoner and FreeSpace) is coming back to Justin.tv to demo another game. You saw them before, demoing Saints Row II exclusively on Justin.tv pre-release.

Tomorrow, they plan on doing an exclusive pre-release demo of their newest title Red Faction Guerrilla, which officially launches on June 2nd (many have downloaded and played the Multiplayer Demo which released May 21st).

You can check out their broadcast tomorrow, May 29th at 10AM CST on their channel, only on Justin.tv - http://www.justin.tv/volition

I hope you're as excited as I am to see this broadcast!

Watch live video from Volition Inc. Live Stream on Justin.tv

New Twitter, Facebook and MySpace features!

We've been working hard on improving the 3rd party chat on Justin.tv, and we're happy to release the following improvements:

• Broadcasters can now default their channel to load Twitter, MySpace or Facebook chat. The normal JTV site chat will still exist, just in another tab.
• All the external chat rooms (MySpace, Twitter and Facebook chats) are now based on the same chat servers as regular chat, meaning that messages will appear without any delay (real time!).
• Broadcasters who sign in to Twitter will automatically have their channel status updates pushed to their Twitter.
• Search now has a Recent Tweets side bar, that searches recent Twitter updates from around Justin.tv
• Added a character count for Twitter posts; enjoy Twittering!

Hope you like these improvements. As always, we appreciate any feedback you have on them.

Justin

Keke Palmer, back on Justin.tv for another Fanchat!

You joined us once for Keke's last fanchat on Justin.tv, and now Keke returns to us again for another live fanchat only on Justin.tv.

We're excited to have her on the site again and we're sure that this fanchat will be even better than the last!

Some join us and Keke June 4th 2009 at 4:30 PST/7:30 EST, for her second live fanchat!

In the mean time, check out Keke's official site: http://www.kekepalmer.com/

You can also followe Keke on twitter: @Kekeinaction

Enjoy!

Justin.tv just won a Webware 100 award, so we're all going to Disney Land

Okay, only one part of the title is true. Thankfully, it's the part we're the most excited about.

CNET's Webware blog just announced the 2009 Webware 100 winners and we're thrilled to tell you that Justin.tv made the cut!



While we've done a lot of hard work here at Justin.tv World Headquarters to make the site something everybody loves, we know that when voting is in the public's hands, our users are the ones that make or break us. In the Photo & Video category we were up against great products like Flickr, Boxee, Vimeo and 26 others, and we couldn't be more humbled to find out that so many of our users and fans made their way over to vote--and they chose us!

Thanks to everyone who voted from everyone at Justin.tv!

Community resources just got Wikified!

Good news everybody!

I'm really glad to announce that I've gone through and wikified all of our current site guides, information and et cetera. I've even thrown in a couple of Easter Eggs for good measure.

http://community.justin.tv/

Check it out, and if you're the expert of what you do or know something about Justin.tv and feel that it'd make a great wiki article, by all means make an addition! Check out the way the pages are laid out already, I have already put things in [[Category:Site Info]] or [[Category:Tutorial]] for some help.

Enjoy!

Thumbnails on Justin.tv are doing it live, just like Bill O'Reilly

We know you come to Justin.tv to watch live video from all over the Web, and it's our job to help you find it. Until now, we've been showing you static profile images in the thumbnails for users' channels. Unfortunately, these weren't always a good indication of what was streaming at the time. No more!

Starting today, you'll see constantly-updated screen grabs from each channel in its thumbnail, so you'll know exactly what's on, exactly when you care--right now! The team worked hard over the weekend to get this new feature ready and we just pushed it live.

Go check out the home page, your favorite directory section or a search for whatever strikes your fancy. We think these new thumbnails make the site much easier to use, let us know if you agree.

Here's an example of what our gaming page looks like with the new screen grabs:

Introducing Pro Accounts

We've heard a great deal of feedback from you the Community about the desire to have a "Pro Account" option and we're bringing it to you. Also many of you had told us that you'd love to be able to have a Pro Account option in order to make it so you don't have to view ads on video.

Now you can register for a Pro Account on Justin.tv and view the video ad free. Check out the complete list of features:

• Advertising-free viewing of all video on Justin.tv!
• Five free gifts every month.
• Access to custom Pro chat colors.
• A special icon for your name in chat.
• Custom badges for your profile and channel pages, showing everyone that you're a Pro!

You can check out more information about Pro Accounts here, http://www.justin.tv/payment/pro_faq

Remember, Pro Accounts are completely optional! Every way that you've currently enjoyed using Justin.tv will remain the same if you haven't opted to buy a Pro Account.

Thanks for all of your feedback and thank you for your continued support of Justin.tv!

Wirecast integrates with Justin.tv!

Using Wirecast on Justin.tv just got easier!

Telestream announced with the release of Wirecast 3.5 the full integration of Justin.tv with Wirecast! It's now even easier to use Wirecast than before. Here are some quick easy steps:

1. Download Wirecast 3.5
2. Load Wirecast (If this is your first time loading it, simply click on the Broadcast Button on the upper right hand corner, or you can go into the Broadcast settings.)
3. Click "Encoder Preset" and select Flash Low/Medium/High/HD Bandwidth (dependent on your internet speed)
4. Destination: Click the Justin.tv destination and enter your Justin.tv Username and click "Generate RTMP"
5. At the Prompt, enter your Justin.tv password and click "Okay"

It's just that easy! Wirecast contains a complete tutorial to help get you started and to purchase a license, open Wirecast, select Preferences > Register > Purchase Now and follow the online instructions. You can also purchase Wirecast from their Secure Online Store.