7th AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford

Calling all innovators! Tune in here tomorrow, Wednesday July, 29th at 9 am PT/12pm ET for the 7th AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford. This two-and-a-half-day executive gathering features the most innovative companies, eminent technologies, influential investors and journalists that the world has to offer. The all-star speaker line up includes Mitchell Baker and Chris Beard from the Mozilla Foundation, Joe Kennedy from Pandora and many, many more. Click here for a complete list.

PT Walkley Live Music Session

Our music series continues with a live music session with PT Walkley this Wednesday, July 29^th at 2pm PT/5pm ET.

Recently, PT released his solo debut album album, Mr. Macy Wakes Alone, which Time Out NY calls “an ambitious work in the mold of a ‘60s double LP, with recurring characters and musical themes.” Additionally, PT has opened for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden and his music has been featured in many television commercial campaigns. So join us and PT Walkley here tomorrow at 2pm PT.

Justin.tv Channel Page Switchover

Thanks for everyone's great feedback on the new Beta channel pages and redesign. Based on your suggestions, we've made a number of changes, including the new Producer Spotlight on the front page and a hide button on the Producer channel on the directory. We've also made a bunch of changes to the new chat, making it fit more lines, hide timestamps to preserve space, and compress multiple lines from the same person into one.

Starting next Monday (August 3), we'll be defaulting all channels to the new design. The old design will still be available for some time at www.justin.tv/channelname/old. For those who want to easily move their old background and colors to the new channel layout, there is an "Import your Channel" tool located here http://www.justin.tv/settings?section=channel&subsection=channel_beta.

Thanks,

Justin

Justin.tv is opening up: API, Camtweet and more

We want to make live video ubiquitous across the Web. We know there are dozens of use cases that live video would be perfect for: customer support, pay per view entertainment, remote education, collaborative gaming...the list is expanding every day. Unfortunately we can't build all of them, there are just too many.

Instead, we want to let all of you build these applications. We know how hard it is to do, so instead of asking each of you to pay for servers and bandwidth, we just released our open, free API to the public and I am extremely excited to be the first to tell you about it. That's not all though, we're also open sourcing some of the apps we've written to show off what you can do.

The API
The API itself comes in two main pieces, REST and Flash. In short, we've giving away access to several pieces of our technology and infrastructure. The REST API was built to provide information about already existing Justin.tv data and broadcasts. The Flash API includes the live player and the broadcaster, each of which are fully customizable in appearance and behavior. Finally, our chat, along with our social chat channels, is available as well.

The possibilities for live video applications are really only limited by your imagination. Want to create a custom-skinned player? You can do it. Integrate with your own service's existing profile and identity system? No problem. Think you can make a great live video search engine, if only you had access to the stream data? Now you have it. We're hoping to see all these applications, along with the ones mentioned above, and more.

The apps
We've been using the API ourselves for a couple of weeks and we've made a few applications to show what you can do. One you might recognize is Camtweet, the Twitter-integrated app we showed off at TechCrunch's Real Time Stream event a few weeks ago. Camtweet was actually built in just a few hours (thanks, Emmett) using an early version of our API. Today Camtweet is not only open for you to use, but also open sourced. You can find the code here to see how it works and even create your own Camtweet. Take it, play with it, change it, do whatever you like. We're giving it away for free.

We hope you like some of the apps we've made, and maybe even use one or two. Personally, I'm really enjoying Kevin B's Mac OSX dashboard widget.

We're not satisfied yet though, so we're also going to open source a few more apps to help get you started. Check out the applications gallery on our API wiki for info on those.

Thanks to the entire Justin.tv team that made this happen.

And the Band Plays On...

Thanks for coming out to watch the Dan Black broadcast on Wednesday morning! He'll be back on for a Q+A session soon. Be sure to check out clips from the broadcast here.

Next up for the music series we have alternative artist Outtasite. Outtasite really has worked with everyone in the business from Sir Mix Alot to the Presidents of the United States of America. You might have even heard his music on "Pimp My Ride" or "The Bad Girls Club."

Join us for a live Q+A session here at 2pm PT/5pm ET on Sunday, July 26.

Updates, Bug Fixes and Tigers - Oh my!

Earlier this month, we pushed out some changes to the site, some popular and some not so much. We got a great deal of important and great feedback from the Community and we took that feedback to heart.

Something you'll notice on the front page now is a "Top Producers" section, a section that's sole intent is to feature our best Community content on our front page so that everyone coming to justin.tv can see it! Also remember that if you have an event coming up or have a clip of something interesting that had happened on your channel, let us know and we'll feature that on our front page too! It is really important for us that we're highlighting you as the community for the great things you do and are!

We're also releasing some bug fixes to some issues that community members were having with the site after the redesign and search has gotten a spruce up too!

Feel free to let us know how you feel about the changes!

Exclusive Saw VI Trailer Preview from Comic-Con

Watch live video from Saw VI on Justin.tv, today straight from Comic-Con, Lionsgate will be bringing an exclusive live preview of the trailer from their movie Saw VI, the sixth installment in the horror Saw film series.

Saw VI began shooting this March and is set to be released in theatres October 23th 2009. So join us today at 5PM PST on: http://www.justin.tv/saw_vi - to check it out!

"Up and Coming Artists" Series Continues Tomorrow

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch Streetlab on Sunday.

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 22 at 11am PST/2pm EST, the music series continues with pop artist Dan Black, who splits his time between London and Paris. Dan's album, "Symphonies" just released last week and he just returned from the huge Glastonbury Music Festival over in the U.K. So tell all your friends and remember to tune in here tomorrow at 11am PST for a great acoustic set with Dan.

Our very own Justin on PC Hook-up show tomorrow!

If you've seen our previous announcement about the PC Hook-up show, you've probably been watching it. Tomorrow night, everyone's favourite Justin Kan will be a guest on the PC Hook-up show.

Don't forget to check Justin out and give him your support on the PC Hook-up show, Wednesday at 9:30PM PST here - http://www.justin.tv/pchookupshow

Camtweet: Get ready to tweet live!

Some of you might have already heard that we've been brewing up a live broadcasting application to work with twitter and today I'm really excited to be writing this post letting you know that we're launching this today!

Camtweet gives you the chance to broadcast easily, quickly and most importantly live over twitter! Camtweet is really simple to use, simply log in with your twitter username and password, set your camera and microphone preferences and set your video/audio quality and broadcast.

Camtweet is by invitation only right now, but we're giving you a first shot chance at getting in on using camtweet.

If you want to start using Camtweet to broadcast and tweet live, simply follow this special URL invite code: www.camtweet.com/account/login_with_invite_code?invite_code=JTVBLOG

Log in with your twitter username/password and get started!

Got something awesome planned? Perhaps you'd like to feature your awesome!

If you've got something awesome planned and are broadcasting on Justin.tv we want to give you a chance to have it featured on the front page.

If you plan to be doing a gaming marathon for charity, broadcasting yourself exploring a new area for a vacation, have a show that you plan an interview or have a conference or show that you're going to - Just let us know!

Make sure to let us know as much as possible about what you're broadcasting: Date and time, channel URL, description of what you're broadcasting and include a graphic (will be scaled down to 150 x 113) to go with it and we might feature this on our front page! All you need to get started is checking out this page: http://www.justin.tv/p/featured_event - And filling out the form here about your event!

Music Series Broadcast

Join us here on Sunday, July 19 at 1pm PST/4pm EST for a live broadcast with electronica/hip hop group Streetlab. You'll be able to get a glimpse of their awesome spinning skills as well as the opportunity to ask the guys a few questions. Don't forget to catch their debut single, "NY Sound", later that night at 10:30pm EST on HBO's hit show, "Entourage".

Meebo downtime, coming back up shortly

UPDATE: This looks like it's been cleared out. Just log in like you normally have on the Meebo bar and it should work.

Hey guys,

We're aware of the issues with the Meebo IM client not logging on for many people, this is something on Meebo's end and they are working to get this issue resolved. We're told that everything should be back up fully operational again shortly.

Sorry for the problems!

Makeover time with Justin.tv

Great news everybody!

We've gotten a scrubbing on site and you're going to notice some changes, improvements and all around good things.

Beta Channel Design: You can choose to opt in to have your channel always display in the new beta format, simply go to your Channel Info Settings to do this. You should do this to give it a shot!

• Pre-Made Channel themes to help people make their channels look awesome: Design (Beta)
  
• Note: Your channel will otherwise display in the old style for now.
  

Meebo IM Integration: We worked together with Meebo to bring better IM support to Justin.tv. You'll see the Meebo IM client persist across the site and your Justin.tv friends are loaded into it. You can also set it up so that you can use other IM services from your JTV IM now too.

Live broadcasting in one click: We've made it even easier to broadcast, you can now get yourself set up with a channel and broadcasting easier than before!

Directory Improvements: We've made some tweaks to the directory to improve it's look and feel.

• Producer's Spotlight is now video
• Mouse hovers over live thumbnails brings up Channel Icon, Category info and channel description.
• Cleaner look and feel

Front Page changes: The front page got some cleaning up too!

• Highlighted upcoming broadcasts
• One click broadcasting
• Justin.tv Twitter feed
• Cleaner look and feel
  

New Music Series Premiere!

Get ready to rock out! Justin.tv is proud to announce its “Up and Coming Artists” music series. This series, which starts tomorrow-July 15, features live music, Q+A sessions and a lot of fun for both the musicians and fans. You can chat live with your favorite singers. This great series is going to kick of at 12:30pm PST/3:30pm EST with Honor Society live from backstage at Izod Arena. They’re currently on tour with The Jonas Brothers

Be sure to check back often for more live sessions with these great artists:

Chester French: www.chesterfrench.com
Dan Black: www.justin.tv/danblacksound
Kristinia DeBarge, on tour with Britney Spears and Ciara: www.kristiniadebarge.com
Serena Ryder: www.serenaryder.com
The Phenomenal Handclap Band: www.myspace.com/phenomenalhandclap
PT Walkley: www.ptwalkley.com
Jersey Budd: www.jerseybudd.com
Honor Society, on tour with the Jonas Brothers: www.justin.tv/thegentlemensclub
Streetlab: www.streetlab.net
All the Day Holiday: www.myspace.com/allthedayholiday

Microsoft and Justin.tv bring you PC Hook Up Show starting July 15th

We're excited to announce that we're working together with Microsoft to produce a new show for Justin.tv. The new show, hosted by Christian Lander of "Stuff White People Like," will air Sundays and Wednesdays at 9:30pm PT starting July 15th, only on Justin.tv.

The show will be in a late night talk show format, starting with a monolog from Christian and followed by interviews. There will be a special guest on each show, such as Alex Albrecht from Diggnation, Ben Huh from I Can Has Cheezburger and Justin.tv's very own Justin Kan. Each episode will be broadcast live and offer real time interaction with viewers at: http://justin.tv/pchookup. The PC Hook Up Show will host celebrities from around the technology, media and entertainment worlds. That's not it though, you can call in or chat and be a part of the show. You'll even have the chance to win a free PC. Sign up now at the PC Hook Up channel page.

We hope that you'll join us and Christian on Wednesday and Sunday nights.

PC Hook Up Schedule, all episodes 9:30pm PDT:
• July 15
• July 19
• July 22
• July 26
• July 29
• August 2
• August 5
• August 9
• August 12
• August 16

Watch live video from PC Hookup on Justin.tv

Watch the TechCrunch Real Time CrunchUp...in real time!

We're broadcasting the TechCrunch real time event today. There are some great panelists, and I will actually be demoing an unreleased app from Justin.tv this afternoon as well.

As a live video site, we know and think a lot about real time. Having a TechCrunch event devoted to it is really exciting for us.

Check out the feed here or click over to the channel page. Thanks to Sun Startup Essentials for working with us on the broadcast!


Watch live video from sunstartupessentials on Justin.tv

Justin.tv inside your Facebook

Good news everybody!

One of our ultra-secret awesome projects is finally finished and I'm really excited to announce that you can now broadcast on Facebook through Justin.tv. Using Live, you can broadcast to Facebook. Most importantly it's free and there is no signup approval process.

It's really simple to use! Just like on Justin.tv, all you need is a webcam and an internet connection. It's just that easy.

You can even add the Live tab to your facebook page so that all your friends can find it easily! Adding a Live tab to your Profile is the same as adding any other application; click the "+" tab and select Live. To add a Live tab to your Facebook Page, you'll need to install the app first.

So join us and your friends to watch, chat and connect on Facebook with Justin.tv!

Beta Chat changes based off of your feedback

Hey guys,

We have been looking at your feedback and we're going to be pushing some changes to the beta chat based off of some of your concerns about space. Here is what we're doing:

• Multiple chat lines from the same person will be put into one block
• Timestamps only appear on history now

Thanks for the feedback!

Michael Jackson's memorial service today

We'll be working with E! Online today to bring you live coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service today. Coverage from E! starts at 9:30am PDT and the services begin at 10. You can see it all live on Justin.tv's front page, at E! Online's channel page, or right here in this blog post.

If you want to chat with other MJ fans or just won't have access to a TV this morning like most of America, head on over to the broadcast and say goodbye to the King of Pop.

Watch live video from E! Online - MJ Memorial on Justin.tv

Pssst we got a secret... Beta Channel Redesign Released!

Good news everybody!


See that screen capture? That's what you'll see when you go to channel pages, click on the (Beta) link and you'll see a sneak peak of what we have coming to the redesign of the Justin.tv Channel pages. You'll see some snazzy new things:

• Cleaner looking channel pages
• Links to channel information is much more predominant - Badges, fans, description and status, so that you don't have to scroll away from the video to look at this info.
  
• Channel clips are more prominently displayed now
• Chat notifications get a sleek update
  

Also, we know about the chat sizing issue from the previous roll out, we're going to be taking care of this later in the week.

Rock Out with The Bay Bridged and Justin.tv this July 4th!

Can’t make it out to San Francisco for a great concert this weekend? Well no fear! On Saturday, July 4th, the city by the bay’s premiere indie music site, The Bay Bridged, is streaming their summer concert live starting at 2pm on the front page of Justin.tv and at The Bay Bridged's channel page.

This great outdoor concert is being held at the El Rio in the Mission District of San Francisco featuring great music from:

Murray the Thief 2-2:30
Writer 2:40-3:10
Birds & Batterie - 3:20 - 4
D Numbers - 4:10 - 4:50
Finn Riggins - 5 - 5:40
Low Red Land -5:50-6:30
Two Sheds - 6:40-7:20
Birdmonster - 7:30-8:15

New header, logo and much more to come

There are some exciting changes to the features and look on Justin.tv coming up. You'll hear much more about them soon, but today we're releasing a sneak preview with a new header that you'll see on the website soon. Before it makes its way into the Justin.tv world, we wanted to show it off here and run through a few key pieces to check out.

The new header


First, along with the new header comes our new logo. We've had a good run with the Justin.tv monkey. He watched us take our first steps, grow and find our balance--but it's time to part ways and move on. Today we welcome the new Justin.tv logo and JTV favicon onto the site.

We've also added some new menus to the header to make navigating the site much easier. Networks, Headlines and Help areas are all organized them under the main dropdown menu next to the Justin.tv logo.



We've also added category navigation to the header under the Live Channels menu, so you won't need to go back to the front page to find your favorite categories.




We've got lots more improvements coming soon that the tech and design teams are hard at work on. Until then, enjoy these changes today and let us know what you think.