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- Videolicious For The iPhone Helps You Edit Quality Videos, Fast
- Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second
- Twitter Does Not Supplant Other Media, It Amplifies It
| Videolicious For The iPhone Helps You Edit Quality Videos, Fast | Top |
| Videolicious for the iPhone and iPad is a free app designed for those of us who aren’t professional video editors but still want to have our important moments preserved in quality video. By walking people through the step by step combining of video footage, photos and music, Videolicious lets users create their own documentary style clips and share them to Twitter, Facebook and email. Users who want to create a video simply choose the already existing shots or footage they want to include, in the order they want them to appear. Then the app records the user telling the story behind the photos or video, then asking them to select accompanying music from either within the app itself or iPhone playlists. Once all elements are selected, the Videolicious technology analyzes and fits together the components, taking less than a minute to process. The quality of the finished product is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. While the format definitely doesn’t have the versatility of customizing and editing something with Final Cut Pro and can get cookie cutter after awhile, the system is meant to provide discrete units of video for users who want to create something good, quickly. Founder Matt Singer tells me that the app is designed specifically for those that want to “get the best possible result in the least amount of time.” On launch Videolicious has partnered up with Martha Stewart, SELF magazine, Lucky Magazine and ReadyMade who are using the app to further engage with readers by letting them upload custom Videolicious video content. Stewart, for example, will be asking viewers a question every month and culling some of the best Videolicious responses for MarthaStewart.com . “A lot of media companies are looking for a way to get their audiences involved with editorial,” says Singer “This empowers readers to participate.” We shot a Videolicious video in the TechCrunch offices (below), and head of TechCrunch TV Jon Orlin was into it. “It’s impressive. It’s not going to put professional video editors out of business. But, for videos you shoot with your phone and don’t want to spend time to bring into iMovie or Final Cut, this software is great. By the time you imported all the clips into a separate editing program, Videolicious would have a finished video,” he said. The Videolicious app is an outgrowth of Talk Market , a company that built custom automatic video editing systems for Fortune 500 retailers and media companies. Talk Market has $2 million in seed funding from former Bloomingdales CEO Marvin Traub and Amazon. CrunchBase Information The Talk Market Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second | Top |
| Twitter has just revised its preliminary measurements of 4,000 tweets per second from last night’s announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death , tweeting out the new measurements below. At the event’s peak (11pm EST) there were 5,106 TPS, beating out Super Bowl 2011 (with 4,064 TPS) but not NYE 2010 (with 6,939 TPS). The event had the highest sustained rate of tweets ever according to Twitter, reaching 3,000 tweets per second between 10:45 and 2:20am, raking in 38,7 million tweets in 3 hours and 35 minutes. At its peak it averaged 3440 TPS from 10:45pm to 12:30pm EST, at an average of 12,4 million tweets an hour. For comparison, this year’s Super Bowl had sustained 20 minutes at 3,000 TPS. From Twitter PR : “Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 – 2:20am ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second. At 11p.m. ET, there were 5,106 Tweets per second. At 11:45p.m. ET, when Pres. Obama finished his remarks, there were 5,008 TPS. Note: The TPS numbers we reported last night were incomplete” The timeline of the event on Twitter was as follows: At 1:00pm EST last night, Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual) unknowingly liveblogged the helicopter raids that eventually killed Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. At around 9:45pm EST White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer notified the press corps that Obama would make an impromptu announcement at 10:30 EST, then tweeted out the same information to his followers. At 10:25pm former Donald Rumsfeld Chief Of Staff Keith Urbahn tweeted, "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn." ABC, NBC and CBS then followed suit, announcing the death of Bin Laden on television at 10:45pm EST. Obama’s speech began at 11:30pm EST and by 11:35 EST the President had confirmed Osama’s death. At 11:45pm EST the announcement was over. For perspective, here is a list of other notable TPS event records: * The all-time record is still NYE 2010 in Japan, with 6,939 TPS at its peak * On the day of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (On March 11th) Twitter usage reached 5,530 TPS. (Passing the 5,000 TPS mark five times that day). * The 2011 Super Bowl reached 4,064 TPS * Japan’s victory over Denmark in the World Cup reached 3,283 TPS * Final game of the 2010 NBA finals peaked at 3,085 TPS * Last Friday's Royal Wedding reached a peak of 3,966 TPS at 4pm London time @twitterglobalpr Twitter Comms Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 – 2:20am ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second [1/3] about 9 hours ago via web Reply Retweet Favorite @twitterglobalpr Twitter Comms At 11p.m. ET, there were 5,106 Tweets per second. At 11:45p.m. ET, when Pres. Obama finished his remarks, there were 5,008 TPS [2/3] about 9 hours ago via web Reply Retweet Favorite @twitterglobalpr Twitter Comms Note: The TPS numbers we reported last night were incomplete [3/3] about 9 hours ago via web Reply Retweet Favorite Graph: @miguelrios CrunchBase Information Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Twitter Does Not Supplant Other Media, It Amplifies It | Top |
| Last night, many of us learned about Osama Bin Laden’s death on Twitter . And in fact, the first credible report from Keith Urbahn, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s chief of staff, was also on Twitter. And while the White House kept pushing off the official announcement for an hour to inform different parties, the news was already being analyzed and spread on Twitter. So did Twitter supplant mainstream media as the best source of news about Bin Laden’s death? Yes and no. Yes, many people first heard about the news on Twitter, but more often than not the original source of that news could be traced back to mainstream media. Although some unwitting on-the-ground reporting occurred on Twitter as well, Bin Laden’s death was confirmed by mainstream media (CNN, NYT, etc). Even Keith Urbahn notes that his source was not someone in the military or government, but a “connected TV news producer:” @keithurbahn Keith Urbahn My source was a connected network TV news producer. Stories about "the death of MSM" because of my "first" tweet are greatly exaggerated. about 18 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Reply Retweet Favorite Urbahn doesn’t believe his Tweet is evidence of citizen journalism “supplanting traditional media.” @keithurbahn Keith Urbahn As much as I believe in rise of "citizen journalism," blogs, twitter etc supplanting traditional media, my tweet isn't great evidence of it. about 17 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Reply Retweet Favorite And yet, he was able to break the news before the TV producer who told him could air it on traditional media. Twitter is not in and of itself a news source. Whoever is Tweeting is the source. But all it takes is one person to Tweet out news for it to spread faster than through any other medium. The person doesn’t have to be a journalist. Urbahn scooped everyone. Twitter does not supplant other media, it amplifies it. During the President’s announcement, people were Tweeting at a rate of 4,000 Tweets per second , not an all-time-high, but a close second or third—about the same level of Tweets as during the last Super Bowl . Twitter also drives people to traditional media. Last night, news that the President was going to make a surprise announcement certainly drove people to TV. For instance, I first heard about the news conference on Twitter, and then I turned on CNN. Much of what people were Tweeting was what they were hearing on TV, thus passing the news instantly to people who may not have been in front of a TV at the time. But what that means in practice is that if you are following the right people, you don’t have to actually turn on your TV. You can learn most of the salient facts from watching your Twitter stream. It can be such an efficient way to get information that people mistake it for the source of the news itself. For an increasing number of people, it is becoming the first place they turn to find out what is going on. However, it also points to other media (much like a news search does) and people click on those links to find out more. We certainly saw a huge spike from Twitter traffic here on TechCrunch last night, and we are just a technology blog. Related TC posts : First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter Here's the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden Bin Laden's Compound Gets A Bum Review On Google Maps CrunchBase Information Twitter Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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