Tumblr Is Launching Live Video This Week

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Tumblr plans to compete in the fast-crowding live video space, according to a promotional webpage unearthed by Twitter user David Chartier over this past weekend. The page, livevideo.tumblr.com, features a programming schedule and a launch date of June 21st, though the date may not be set in stone. TechCrunch confirmed today the images are indeed Tumblr advertising material for the new platform. It's unclear how the company's live video ambitions will shape up, and whether it will resemble anything like Facebook Live, Twitter's Periscope, or Amazon-owned Twitch. In April, Facebook rolled out a major live video update allowing anyone to post live streams of themselves to their timeline.

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[Craig Ringer]

I read that as "tinder is launching live video".

Oh god no. If you think unsolicited dick pics are bad...

My word, live video is really taking off.

[TheDarkener]

What I'm seeing here is a rush for the major social networking players to provide live video streaming services to their user bases...but, the question is, why? How does that fit into their business models? I honestly don't see that it does in most cases.

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[TeknoHog]

This might be contrasted with the recent discussion Facebook will be all video [slashdot.org]. I can sort of understand how blog posts and their comments are being replaced by video recordings, though I'm not sure about the "why". In this sense, live video would be a natural replacement for live chat, but apparently that's not what's happening here. It's more like live broadcast, which would tie in with another recent discussion [slashdot.org]. That is, if "what I'm having for breakfast just now" counts as news.

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[Mashiki]

Seems to me that a lot of social media sites know that the vast majority of their users are narcissistic shits who need their ego's stroked, giving them video just helps their self esteem.

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[Mashiki]

Sooner or later, anything will be used to commit a crime.

Back a few years I had a chance to listen to one of Canada's top drug/crimlaw experts talk about social media. Or as he put it, "one of the best tools to catch criminals with evidence in hand." Can't speak for the US, but here in Canada clearance rates have increased because these people are so stupid they brag about what they've done.

Ship it!

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I tried it out in the beta. Emphasis on the beta. Betas, actually, live crying about this or that ship which won't come true.

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[riis138]

Triggered

Suprised

[riis138]

I was really expecting a flood of "IRC is good enough for me" style comments from all of the grouchy old curmudgeons on this board ;)