Is YouTube's Future: Live Video

YouTube's live coverage of the 2012 Olympics has given us a glimpse into the future of the popular video sharing website. YouTube designed and built the live platform for the Olympics, and they have every intention of using it elsewhere. YouTube's director of software engineering, Jason Gaedtke, says that "While it's true we built this platform for the Olympics, a better way of characterizing it would be to say we used the Olympics as an opportunity to challenge our capabilities and set some high quality-of-service and streaming goals going forward,"