Reaction blows hot and cold to YouTube’s first live event

YOUTUBE has broadcast its first live event, an extravaganza which was part concert and part variety show and which drew comments from viewers ranging from “awesome!” to “train wreck”.

The popular video-sharing internet site streamed a two-hour live broadcast on Saturday in San Francisco at youtube.com/live featuring some well-to-lesser-known singers, dancers and video bloggers who became online celebrities through YouTube.

Filmed before a live audience at the Fort Mason Centre near San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf, the show opened with a scantily clad Katy Perry performing her song Hot and Cold, a title which pretty much summed up the evening for the tens of thousands of users of the comments board.