While I'm working today I decided to do some live casting tests with Ustream.tv.
Here's the video I'm streaming live from my Tablet as of the time of this post. In case, you're wondering, I have the audio turned off. Why? Because I'm listening and watching Jeremiah Owyang (of Podtech.net) broadcast live via UStream.tv from Web 2.0 Expo.
Here's my test feed, which I'll be experimenting with over the next hour or so. Nothing exciting to watch, but I thought I 'd embed a link to it here so I can see how the embed interacts with the layout of this blog as well as what it looks like once I stop broadcasting.

While I'm broadcasting you can click on the link above to start the live feed.
Here are a couple archived screenshots of what I was doing (I'll explain in a bit the software I was using.):

Tablet PC Guy does a "Hello World!" test.

Desktop in Picture experiment. What's the program? It's a version of MathPractice written for the browser using the Silverlight February CTP. I'll talk more about this later soon. It's still under development.
Here's a link to a recording of the broadcast that I was making as I was using the MathPractice browser prototype. The archived video is hosted on the UStream.tv site. Hopefullly I'll remember not to delete it :-). If this link gets lost, oh well.
Yeah, the screencast shown as the Picture in Picture is too small. You can kind of see what's going on, but the icons and the smiley faces are too tiny. There's a full picture mode I should have used.
So how did I get the live desktop feed in the video? I am using a program called WebcamMax ($29 from Download.com) which enables you to broadcast all or part of your desktop in the video. As you can imagine it's possible to create some interesting scenarios here. The program does have some annoying bugs, but for lightweight experimentation it's OK. I've only been using the program for a day now, but as my experience grows with it, I'll pass along some more of my impressions.



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