Livestream Selected for Its Live, HD-Quality, Multiple-Camera Streaming

NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- TechWeb and O'Reilly Media Inc. have chosen Livestream, the leading live Internet video platform, to broadcast select sessions from the three-day Web 2.0 Summit 2009, which started yesterday in San Francisco. Livestream is the first company to provide a live webcast of the exclusive Web 2.0 Summit.

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Web Squared defines the theme of this year's annual invitation-only Web 2.0 Summit. In its sixth year, the event investigates how the Web is making business more efficient, culture more vibrant and society more tolerant. Web 2.0 Summit will outline ideas for how the Web is evolving according to Web Squared, and takes place Oct. 20-22 at the Westin Market Street in San Francisco. For more information visit http://www.web2summit.com.

This year's Web 2.0 Summit will include the Webcast by Livestream, providing an online extension to thousands of viewers, who can provide immediate interaction. Those watching the Web 2.0 Summit broadcast can participate in the Summit Twitter stream, adding a social dimension to the live event broadcast.

Those that can't catch the milestone event live can watch it on demand at http://tv.web2summit.com

About Livestream

Livestream (www.livestream.com - formerly Mogulus) provides everything needed to easily Webcast live, build an engaged audience and monetize these efforts. Founded in 2007, the company is based in New York and includes Gannett Co. as a minority shareholder and investor.

Producers can use Livestream to create live, linear and on-demand Internet television to broadcast anywhere on the Web through a single embeddable player widget. The service comes in two flavors: Free (ad-supported) and Premium (ad-free, white-label, higher-quality). Unique features include the ability to mix multiple live cameras, overlay graphics, and desktop streaming with 3D effects.

About O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future.

An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism. O'Reilly conferences bring together forward-thinking business and technology leaders, shaping ideas and influencing industries around the globe. For over 25 years, O'Reilly has facilitated the adoption of new and important technologies by the enterprise, putting emerging technologies on the map.

For more information, visit: http://www.oreilly.com/. O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Other products mentioned may be trademarks of their respective companies.

About TechWeb

TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market.

Today, more than *13.3 million business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines.

TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

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