Jan 24
Twitter just got more GIF-friendly, by introducing Vine, a new video-sharing service for clips that are six seconds or less. More »
Jan 24
Twitter has launched Vine, a video sharing service that echoes the brevity of the 140-character limit by only allowing users to share up to six seconds of looping footage. Vine, launching initially on iPhone and iPod touch, is a free download, and is the result of an acquisition by Twitter of the Vine team. Basically, think adding movement and audio to your usual tweet brevity, for those times when actions speak louder than words.
“Although we’ve joined Twitter, you don’t need a Twitter account to use Vine (but signing up is a little quicker if you do!)” the team responsible for Vine said today. If you’ve already logged into your iOS device with your Twitter account, you can register – with the same username – with just a couple of taps. Vine asks for a cellphone number, but it’s not mandatory.
Clips support both video and audio, and automatically loop. It’s also possible to share them not only on Twitter but on Facebook, too. Recordings don’t have to be all of one scene, either; Vine only captures video when your finger is held on the preview screen, so you can quickly join a few different scenes together for a mini-movie.
You can download Vine from the App Store here [iTunes link], and Twitter says it’s currently hard at work readying versions for other platforms. No word on when that might result in an Android app or software for other phones, however.
Vine arrives: 6s video sharing for Twitter and Facebook is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 24
Why it seems like only yesterday we were telling you about Twitter’s new video tweeting feature, courtesy of a tweet from CEO Dick Costolo. With the bird out of the bag, Vine’s just made its way to iOS, so those with an iPhone or iPod touch looking for the video equivalent to 140 characters can pick it up for free now, courtesy of the App Store. Or, if you just want to bask in the adorableness of others, check out Twitter’s short video-filled blog post below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Software, Mobile, Apple
Jan 23
Twitter is preparing to launch Vine, its video app designed to do for personal movies what social photo apps have done for images. According to AllThingsD, sources have stated that the app could arrive as early as tomorrow, although nothing is official at this point. There’s bad news for Android users though – Vine will only be available in the App Store.
Vine is a pretty straight-forward app, allowing mobile users to take a maximum six second video and share it easily with other users online and on social networks. Sources say that the app allows users to compile multiple short clips into a single video by activating when the screen is touched and stopping when it is released. Users can then essentially take individual snapshots and compile them into a video.
Twitter recently acquired the start-up, which had planned to launch Vine solely on iOS before the social network came into the picture. Things are going to continue on as they were originally planned, and according to the sources, the app will not be pushed to the public as Twitter’s video service, but rather just as a video service. That could change in the future, of course.
Vine does support publishing the video clips to Twitter, however, as the social network’s CEO demonstrated on his Twitter feed earlier to day with a six-second video tweet. For now, the Vine.co website reads “Coming soon.” Nothing official has come from Twitter or Vine in regards to when we’ll see the app, but all signs point to “soon.”
[via AllThingsD]
Twitter set to launch its video Vine app in the App Store is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 23
In October of last year, Twitter picked up a little video clip company called “Vine” before it even got the chance to launch. Now it’s finally being folded into Twitter, and CEO Dick Costolo is showing it off. More »
Jan 23
Twitter took Vine under its wing late last year, and it looks like that new relationship is bearing its first fruit. Earlier today, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed Vine’s new capabilities with a single tweet earlier today with a Vine video embedded. Like Twitter’s card implementation, the video appears as a link in the tweet, and users need only click the “View media” (instead of “Show summary”) link underneath for that tweet to expand and show the embedded vid. Once played, the clip loops until you tell it to stop. The video Costolo shared is only a few seconds long, so we don’t know if there’s a time limit for embedded Vine videos, nor can we say when the rest of us will be able to start using Vine. However, we can surely point you to the source to see the service in action.
Filed under: Internet
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Jan 23
ESPN signs with Ooyala’s video embedding service to bake touchdown videos into tweets
Posted in: Today's Chili 
You may not be able to share those retrograde pictures of your dinner direct to your Twitter worshippers any more, but at least you can commemorate Kobe’s latest slammed-dunkings. ESPN’s taking advantage of its deal with video sharing service Ooyala that’ll see highlight videos embedded inside tweets so you never have to leave the warm embrace of your live feed. Ooyala’s also offering its SDK for others to follow suit, and while the press release below talks of “monetization” and “optimized engagement,” we prefer to think the pair are doing it to fill that Instagram-shaped hole in our tweets.
Ooyala Delivers In-Stream Video Viewing on Twitter
Twitter Video Card solution creates new ways to discover, share and monetize video; ESPN first to adopt
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ooyala, the leading video streaming and monetization platform provider, today announced that it has developed a Twitter Video Card solution, in close collaboration with Twitter, that enables Ooyala customers a turnkey solution to embed videos directly into their Twitter streams for instant playback. Previously, users were only able to include a link to a video in Twitter. This solution inserts a thumbnail of the video directly into the stream so followers can click and play directly without leaving Twitter.
“Consumers today are at the intersection of social and mobile, and demanding easy and fast access to video content. Our ability to deliver video directly into the Twitter stream is a major step forward for publishers who want to drive viewer engagement in real-time.”
First deployed by sports broadcaster ESPN to better serve its 24 million online video viewers, Ooyala’s Twitter Card solution provides media companies, broadcasters and brands a new way to distribute and monetize video content delivered via Twitter across desktops and mobile devices. In addition, the solution can increase the discovery and sharing of video content and optimize engagement through social and mobile by eliminating the barriers to view content directly on Twitter.
“Twitter is a growing source of inbound referral traffic and outbound content distribution for online media publishers and broadcasters,” said Jonathan Wilner, senior director, business product management at Ooyala. “Consumers today are at the intersection of social and mobile, and demanding easy and fast access to video content. Our ability to deliver video directly into the Twitter stream is a major step forward for publishers who want to drive viewer engagement in real-time.”
As a result of the close collaboration with Twitter, the Ooyala solution has been certified by Twitter, meaning customers can quickly and easily integrate and distribute video content directly into their streams across all platforms — including desktop, mobile web and native smartphone and tablet apps for both iOS and Android — and trust that the player will work seamlessly within Twitter. The solution works via an Ooyala Twitter SDK and automatic hosting for Twitter Cards. The turnkey API from Ooyala automatically generates the necessary Twitter tags so that a video can be inserted onto a video landing page to enable Twitter Cards.
Powerful Solution when paired with Discovery
The technology works seamlessly with Ooyala Discovery, which enables video content providers to increase view-related revenue by algorithmically recommending highly relevant content within the Ooyala Player. For example, if a user watches a highlight from a football game within the ESPN Twitter stream, they could receive a recommendation to also watch highlights from the post-game press conference. Personalized content recommendations can further drive user engagement and monetization for each video share in Twitter.
Opening Revenue Streams
In addition to benefiting consumers, this technology opens up new revenue streams for Ooyala customers. It enables the distribution of ad-supported video content across client-owned and consumer Twitter properties, magnified by sharing tendencies of Twitter users. It also opens the door for video integration into Promoted Tweet advertising campaigns across Twitter.
Customers that take advantage of Ooyala analytics will also have extensive data on the performance of their videos through Twitter Video Cards, in addition to the data they already receive on their websites and/or apps, allowing them to further optimize their video content.
About Ooyala
Ooyala delivers personalized video experiences across all screens and is the leader in online video management, publishing, analytics and monetization. Our integrated suite of technologies and services give content owners the power to expand audiences through deep insights that drive increased viewer engagement and revenue from video.
Companies using Ooyala technology include Telstra, ESPN, Pac-12 Enterprises, Miramax, Bloomberg, Telegraph Media Group, Telefonica, The North Face, Rolling Stone, Dell, Sephora and Yahoo! Japan. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Ooyala has offices in New York City, London, Sydney, Tokyo and Guadalajara, Mexico. The company works with premier reseller and technology partners throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. For more information visit www.ooyala.com.
Via: TechCrunch
Jan 22
Last June, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman published a scantly-worded analysis of Estonia’s “incomplete” economic recovery on his NYT blog. Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves was not amused. Now, a Latvian composer has set Ilves’ Twiraide to music. More »
Jan 22
If you’re a frequenter of blogs (or maintain a blog yourself), chances are you’re no stranger to embedded tweets. They pop up all over the place, and today Twitter is making them better by rolling out a new update. This update adds all sorts of functionality to embedded tweets, making them faster and adding more content with the goal being to increase engagement.
With this update, embedded tweets will show article summaries, photos, and video, just as if you were viewing the tweet on Twitter. That’s probably the biggest improvement Twitter has made, but that’s not to downplay the other new features. After all, the fact that embedded tweets will now show retweet and favorite counts is pretty great as well.
Embedded tweets should be loading faster now that the update has been applied, and Twitter is also looking to make it easier to embed tweets on your website. Now, all you need to do is click the “More” button on any tweet and then select the “Embed This Tweet” option. Once you’ve done that, you’ll have a code to enter into your post, so Twitter has really streamlined the process of embedding tweets.
That seems to be it as far as new features go, but then again, embedded tweets already offered a number of cool features before this update was even announced. Once such feature is the ability to follow users through embedded tweets, which proved to be quite handy. It probably won’t be much longer before Twitter is back at improving embedded tweets, so stay tuned.
[via Twitter Blog]
Twitter rolls out update for embedded tweets is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jan 22
Our dreams of downloading entire Twitter archives has finally come true, but they pretty much become stale the minute they hit our hard drive. Plus, unless you have access to some sort of webhosting, there’s no real way to share your every thought, complaint, and witticism from the past 5 years with the adoring masses. More »
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