Add Y! Live to your Sidebar!
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I’m pretty excited about Y! Live - fantastic technology! So I decided to go ahead and put it live in my sidebar! When I’m broadcasting, you can see me working at the ol’ laptop right in my sidebar. How did I do it? It took a little bit of work, but I figured it out.
The biggest hurdle to get over was that Yahoo!’s documentation had the URL incorrect to point to the actual broadcast!
Code for Y! Live in the Sidebar
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ylsp" width="180" height="135"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab">
<param name="movie" value="http://live.yahoo.com/swf/v1/ylsp/douglaskarr" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#869ca7" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<embed src="http://live.yahoo.com/swf/v1/ylsp/douglaskarr"
quality="high"
bgcolor="#869ca7"
width="180"
height="135"
name="ylsp"
allowScriptAccess="always"
align="middle"
play="true"
loop="false"
quality="high"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>
Will be an interesting experiment to see; what will overweight: the gain in communication or diminished productivity? Isn’t there a fair chance that you get interrupted more easily while at work?
but that said, this is exciting technology, for now I think best suited for the home market.
I’m not going to broadcast during working hours - you’re right, this could really interrupt my productivity!
Doug
have you tried this link:
http://developer.yahoo.com/register/