Justin.tv

Justin.tv inc is a website that allows users to transfer videos via live streaming on the Internet. The site was founded by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in 2007. Seat of the eponymous company is San Francisco.

History

Justin.tv went online on 19 March 2007. She walks 24 hours to appear live on the Internet back to the idea of the founder and Yale graduate Justin Kan. About the time his new project also reported better-known media such as the Today Show, CNET Live, Nightline and World News Tonight. Following Justin.tv was founded as a Y Combinator startup. In the same year, Alsop Louie Partners has invested in the company.

In June 2011, the sister site Twitch.tv was founded.

On several occasions, Justin.tv was in the Alexa Internet ranking among the 1000 most visited websites in the world. According to the operator's 300 million videos are viewed with a monthly duty cycle of 50 million hours on the site, every second starts a new live stream.

Technology

The transfer and viewing of videos and for Justin.tv works over Adobe Flash. In addition Justin.tv supports a number of other programs for video transmission, which allow for a higher transmission quality part. The website does not use standard transmission rate but determines this based on the Internet connection of the user to an uninterrupted transmission allow. The maximum data transfer rate is limited to 1000 kbit s / video and 44 kHz for sound. The standard resolution is currently 630 x 353 pixels.

Since 2010, a video transmission using own apps and smartphones running Android and iOS operating systems is possible.

Streamed content can be embedded via HTML snippet and the justin.tv 's own API into your own Web pages and Flash applications similar with comparable features such as YouTube.

Criticism

Justin.tv has been criticized for copyrighted works have also been disseminated through the website. Since August 2009, Justin.tv therefore uses a real-time filter to identify the copyrighted works and to prevent the transfer.

On 19 November 2008, the 19 -year-old Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide and showed it live on the platform.