Wayne D's Blog

If you read my blog with any regularity you will know that I have become a bit obsessed with Yahoo! Live. One thing noticed was that it was sometimes difficult to find the rooms of people I know in the pages of people who had their camera online. Yahoo has very helpfully allowed access to the live servers and the current broadcasting information through a defined API. After searching one night and finding out that the people I knew had congregated in a room with a private URL I decided to put together www.myyahoolive.com. This site allows users to keep a list of their favourite channels and tell very quickly who is online and who's room if active among their friends. I know a number of people have told me that they have browser bookmarks for the rooms they visit but that seems not be a sustainable way of doing things as the number of available channels grows,

I know that this site fills a hole in Yahoo Live functionality that I wanted, I hope that others find it useful too. I have grand plans on where I want the site development to go but I'm going to hold off until I find if other people find it useful too. Some of the things I have planned is a click to expand list of who is in a particular channel and an interface that lets people organize their favorite channels.

The easy part is done, the initial site development, now the hard part begins, getting the word out. Please spread the word to any Yahoo! Live user you know.