Mashable Mistake: No Live Streaming of Child Birth
by John Jorgensen on September 2, 2008

- Mashable reported UStream.tv user Stephen Heywood made history today by being the first to live video stream the birth of his daughter, Samantha
- tinyMash has learned no live streaming of the birth took place.
- Heywood: “I didn’t stream the actual birth.”
- According to Heywood, speaking live on the same stream embedded in the Mashable post itself, he turned off the camera during the birth process.
- Child births have been live-Tweeted in the past, but Mashable claimed this was the first time live video has been streamed.
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