Ustreamメンバーが11月に来日予定。Ustreamの日本語化もあるかも？
の「John Ham さんと Brad Hunstableさんという方がどれぐらいのポジションの方なのかいまいちよく分からないのです・・・」ですが、 2名とも創業者の方です。John Ham さんは何回か日本に来たことがあるそうです。
以下 Wikipedia より引用。
Ustream.tv is a website built to be a platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can use Ustream to broadcast to a global audience. Ustream allows you to create your own live TV show with a chat interface. With Ustream.Tv leading the competition of life streaming and general show production platform out there, regular people without much professional video production experience are able to start out their own LIVE online stream.
The founders' story
The two American founders of Ustream, John Ham and Brad Hunstable, were classmates at West Point, where they studied engineering. After graduating, they were deployed together as junior officers, where they discovered that they both had the urge to be entrepreneurs. Together, they started a digital photo and photo printing Web site, focused on the local market in Ohio, where they were stationed. Just when it began to take off, however, John was deployed to Iraq, and they were forced to shut down the company.
After they finished their 5 years in the U. S. Army as decorated officers, they returned to the civilian world, but with the entrepreneurship bug still calling to them. This time, they decided to set their sights higher. They got together with the offshore developers who had developed their photo site, Gyula Feher and Adam Katona, and started Ustream, this time as partners and co-founders.
The Ustream team bootstrapped all the way, taking no outside money until a number of angel investors led by Chris Yeh and Jeff Clavier invested a small amount to allow Ustream to launch.
Ustream launched on March 26, 2007, and took off based on strong word of mouth. Key appearances at the Web 2.0 Conference, key early adopters like John Edwards, Chris Dodd, and Chris Pirillo, and key events like the launch of the iPhone all contributed to Ustream's growth.
Today, Ustream has over 20,000 broadcasters and produces over 2,000 hours of original programming every day.
