's rejection to Microsoft's offer just a few days earlier, the site crashed the same night it was launched due to lack of bandwidth.

[3] The service was conceived and created by Michael Quoc (Director of Products),[4] Matthew Fukuda (Head of Design), Eric Fixler (Engineering Lead) and others in the Yahoo!

[5] It was officially discontinued at 7:07 P.M. EST on Dec. 3 2008 with the message "kthxbai" posted on the main page.

Users can create a channel, authorize their webcam and start broadcasting to the public.

Other people can watch, or choose to participate via video, sound or text chat, which can be disabled.