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Source: Google teaming with Ustream for YouTube Live event — long-term partnership to follow?

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader

Nov 08, 2008

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Online video site YouTube will be partnering with the live video streaming service UStream for YouTube’s live event on November 22, an anonymous tipster tells us. If true, the ramifications of the partnership are interesting for a number of reasons, most significantly the potential for a YouTube live-streaming service.

Here’s what we know: YouTube’s event, called “YouTube Live“, will feature popular video bloggers, famous musicians, comedians, athletes and more, all gathered together in an outdoor pavilion in San Francisco. In terms of coverage of the event, we received the same official line from YouTube as Silicon Alley Insider got a few days ago: “We’re working with a third party to live-stream our event called Live. We have no product to announce at this time.”

That third party, according to our source, is Ustream.

More interesting is the rumor that YouTube could use the event to launch a live-streaming service of its own. If that is true, it seems unlikely that YouTube would go to all the trouble of partnering with Ustream for the event if it’s just going t

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