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TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is adding video capability to Instagram, which will be announced at the former’s press event on June 20th. According to The Desk, the videos would last between five and 10 seconds, but there’s no word on if the photo-sharing app’s litany of filters would feature in the new service. Presumably the move has come in response to Vine’s popularity as Facebook and Twitter square off against each other — a fight which would make Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD look like playground squabbling by comparison.

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It’s common for Twitter regulars to get a stream of new followers, but it’s not always clear why they should follow back — how do you summarize a person’s post history in a few seconds? Twitter wants to solve this by launching its #FollowMe tool. The service uses Vizify to build a short, HTML5-based highlight clip from a person’s followers, photos, tweets and Vine videos. Most of the legwork is automatic; users only have to edit the clip if they want to fine-tune the results, and any tweet with the relevant link will show the animation in-line. The #FollowMe rollout won’t guarantee any additional popularity in the Twittersphere, but it should at least make for a stronger sales pitch.

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This morning the Twitter-friendly 6-second-clip app known as Vine was launched for Android, but not without its own tiny share of summoning sickness. When pushed, this app first saw the inability to be installed on a variety of smartphones and tablets, this causing a miniature outcry on Twitter from those without iOS devices who’d been waiting for weeks to see this app come to Android.

Users who’ve not yet been able to access the app should take comfort in knowing that they’re not alone. Though support groups were jokingly planned by publications such as Android Community, the back-end problem seems to have been resolved here in the afternoon. Vine for Android is – for most users who’d previously reported problems to SlashGear – ready to be downloaded and installed for all Android devices.

If you are amongst the few who still see the message shown above, please feel free to let us know: “Oops, we could not determine if this item is compatible with your device. Please try again later.” The app can indeed be installed on most – if not all – Android devices that’ve been released in the past several years. If you’ve got a new smartphone or tablet and Vine doesn’t work, there’s something odd going on.

Vine has been promised by its developers to be receiving frequent updates now that it’s official for Android, especially in the face of the Apple device-tied version of the app’s relative success. Vine’s Android iteration does without front-facing camera support, search, mentions, hashtags, and the ability to share to Facebook for now, but the developers responsible for the project have promised each in the near future.

Vine for Android sees initial launch hiccup is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here (as previously suggested). For those using Android that are just dying to get in on recording your own 6-second looping videos, Vine is now available for your perusal. However, the app is launching with limited features for now, but the dev team says that “frequent updates” will be coming soon.

We’re not seeing the app in the Google Play store just yet, but we’re guessing it’s making its rounds so you should be seeing it at some point today if you’ve haven’t already. The app also only works on Android devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher, so be sure you’re up to date with your handset.

Vine says that new features will be making their way to the new Android app, including front-facing camera support, search, mentions, hashtags, and the ability to share to Facebook. No timeline was given as to when we can expect these updates, but hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later. The team says that they have “exciting plans for features that could exist only on Android,” so our expectations are high.

Vine launched back in January to much fanfare. It was an interesting way to share moving images, allowing users to record only up to six seconds of video that was put on a constant loop, similar to an animated GIF. Of course, it was bombarded with controversial issues, but it remains a unique solution for sharing animated content quickly and easily.

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Vine finally comes to Android for 6-second video fun is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Chandeliers add a certain flair to any room you put them in. They can be colorful or glittering with crystals, long or short, and wide or narrow, and fitted with lamps so they can aptly illuminate the room.

Forms of Nature is another chandelier, but it’s more of an art form since the light sculpture does more than just light things up when you turn it on.

Flicking that switch on will cast shadows of twisty and thorny vines and branches on your walls that looks the outline of a very creepy patch of woods. Kind of like the ones Red was running around in when she was running from her wolf of a grandmother.

Forms in Nature was created by Hilden & Diaz, which is a collaboration between artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz.

The light sculpture is described as resembling and being inspired by Darwinist Ernst Haeckel’s drawings and plots of nature. It is described by its creators as “artwork with a light source surrounded by a dense and unruly tree and root system created in minature sculpture. The forest is mirrored around it’s horizontal central axis and forms a circle 360 degrees around the light source and thereby leads one onto the notion of a real world versus an underworld.”

Forms in Nature has been such a hit that Hilden & Diaz are currently working on launching a Kickstarter campaign to produce 100 pieces of the light sculpture.

[via Geekologie]