Justin.TV

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Justin.tv is building a destination site for broadcasting and watching live video online while chatting with friends. The company’s mission is to enable viewers and broadcasters to interact and exchange ideas in real time through chat and live video.

Their mission, in their own words:

“In the past, live broadcasting was only available to large media corporations who were willing to spend millions of dollars. Today, Justin.tv has democratized live video by shrinking all of the functionality of an expensive TV satellite trunk into a simple laptop or desktop computer.”

Justin.tv began as the crazy brainchild of its founder, Justin Kan, who decided it would be really cool if he could broadcast his entire life, 24/7, to the Internet. To make his idea a reality, he enlisted the help of his friends Michael, Emmett and Kyle, and raised a seed investment from Y Combinator. Together, the team launched “Justin.tv,” the very first lifecast, on March 19, 2007. After gaining the national media spotlight, hundreds of people started asking for the ability to broadcast their own live video. As a result, the team went back to work to build the ultimate platform for broadcasting live video to the web.

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