If you're unable to make it out to Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA this evening for the Boston Brightcove User Group Meeting "New Enhancements in Transcoding," don't worry!

New Brightcove Alliance partner, Livestream, today announced the availability of their new API and a Brightcove player plug-in that they developed with it. At its simplest, the new plug-in allows joint Brightcove and Livestream customers to broadcast live web shows within their Brightcove players. 

Facebook released the 'Live Stream Box' to their developer community last Wednesday. As you may recall, this was used by CNN for the presidential inauguration - I wrote about it here.