Add Y! Live to your Sidebar!

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!

Y! Live Sidebar

Code for Y! Live in the Sidebar

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>

This entry was posted in Marketing Videos, Mobile Marketing and tagged by Douglas Karr.

About Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is the founder of The Marketing Technology Blog. Doug is President and CEO of DK New Media, an online marketing company specializing in inbound marketing leveraging social media, blogging, search engine optimization, pay per click and public relations. Their clients include Webtrends, ChaCha and many more. Douglas is also the author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies.
  • http://www.modifoo.com modifoo

    Nice work. Did you let Yahoo know? If you keep up this pace, soon Microsoft will buy you as well ;)

    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.

    • http://marketingtechblog.com Douglas Karr

      Hi modifoo! I looked for a link for contacting Yahoo! all around their development tools but couldn’t find any.

      I’m not going to broadcast during working hours – you’re right, this could really interrupt my productivity!

      Doug

  • http://www.techwebmedia.com/about/about-me/ Sergey Rusak

    It is great but harmful for my weblog because I am in SEO industry. Many spammers contact asking to exchange links when they see that i am online.

    • http://marketingtechblog.com Douglas Karr

      I’m not an SEO guy (though I do pretend) and see the same thing, Sergey! I did find that if I didn’t ‘publicly’ display myself on Y!Live the spammers didn’t come, though.