I realized today, that Adobe promotes us on the product page of Flash Media Live Encoder 3. I've got ambivalent feelings about it. This solution started as an ad-hoc solution for us, to provide better quality streaming possibilities to our broadcasters.

Adobe® Wave™ is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted service that work together to enable desktop notifications. It helps publishers stay connected to your customers and lets users avoid the email clutter of dozens of newsletters and social network update messages.

Consider the runaway success of YouTube. Then think of the potential of a live version of YouTube that enables anyone with a personal web camera or professional broadcasting equipment to deliver live, high-quality video over the web. The result is Ustream.TV ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, ustream.tv proudly presents a new viewer record for a single stream. 

The first Republican National Convention (RNC) to be streamed live online established a new Ustream record for most views of a single event.  The total unique viewers (live and recorded highlights) during the RNC (Sept. 1-4) was 7,016,000.  The convention attracted 1,593,000 unique live viewers and 5,423,000 unique recorded highlight views.