I second the nomination for Google Hangouts. It's more robust than you
think and there's a lot of untapped potential. You can find out quite a bit
more here: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Gary McGath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 11/15/12 10:10 AM, Mike Smorul wrote:
>
> > Ustream and their more commercial Watershed offering is pretty nice and
> the
> > production software makes it pretty easy to switch between sources
> > (desktop, webcam, etc). The service charges per attendee minute, so if
> you
> > expect a lot of traffic, this may start to get pricy. You do have the
> > advantage us reusing their CDN though.
>
> I wouldn't touch Ustream. They use bots to detect copyrighted material
> and automatically shut off streams that are in "violation." The trouble
> is, the bots have no concept of having permission to stream copyrighted
> material. The Hugo Awards at this year's World Science Fiction
> Convention were cut off in mid-broadcast because of this. UStream
> apologized afterwards, but the damage was done.
>
>
> http://prometheus-unbound.org/2012/09/03/news-copyright-ruined-the-hugo-awards-livestream/
>
>
> --
> Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer
>