From 482a3d63991542e094e4977dc1f39dc90f3f7778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Blue Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 03:39:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] #79 --- drafts/A Good Place-Periscope Magic.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ notes/Notes-Periscope Magic.md | 13 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drafts/A Good Place-Periscope Magic.md diff --git a/drafts/A Good Place-Periscope Magic.md b/drafts/A Good Place-Periscope Magic.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..da3e5ddc --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/A Good Place-Periscope Magic.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# A Good Place-Periscope Magic +- [Notes-Periscope Magic](drafts://open?uuid=480EF899-1228-4751-BFA2-1F197BF1B71A) +- [WTF](https://davidblue.wtf/drafts/4B149084-B41C-4C82-8FD2-0FB7CCF67B6B.html) + +![The Magic of Periscope](https://i.snap.as/3fM96uY.jpg) + +## One livestreaming app has always been a fascinating, generally positive, and all around beautiful place. + +In April, *The Outline* - one of my favorite Web Sites ever - [closed its virtual doors](https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/04/the-outline-an-attempt-to-build-a-bolder-kind-of-news-site-appears-to-have-met-its-end/). I should be more sad about this, but since before they even launched, they never responded to a single one of my emails. I sent them words of encouragement, admiration, spelling and pronoun corrections, and even a few pitches. Some of them were pretty good ideas, but I never once heard back. I pitched this piece, in fact, for their series called "[A Good Place](https://theoutline.com/post/8423/a-good-place-symbolics-internet-history-oldest-website)," which began with the tag "the internet is too much, but this place is just right." In general, it sought the more wholesome, "positive" bits of The Web and detailed the histories of - and some pseudotheraputic uses for - its often-quaint subjects. In my experience, I have not encountered anything more appropriate and yet *mainstream* for this supposition than Periscope, the live streaming app which [Twitter bought before its independent launch](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3) that's quietly taken a place which could only be its very own. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1069117482647076865 + +Through this service, I have watched - and watched with - people from all over the world and met apparently lifelong friends. I've spoken to users in their first 3 weeks trying to learn English and laughed with many more who couldn't understand each other whatsoever. I've streamed out hundreds of hours of live improv piano and had conversations with folks lasting late into the night on just about everything. I have observed Martin Shkreli be a dick and popped into live interviews with celebrities at the beautiful, surreal Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Periscope is [embedded more deeply in society](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/) than one would think, considering how little it's mentioned in media. + + + +In February 2014, [Kayvon Beykpour](https://twitter.com/kayvz) and [Joe Bernstein](https://twitter.com/joebernstein) founded Periscope with a seed round from angel investors "including Adobe executive Scott Belsky." A year later, Twitter [bought it for some $50-100 million](https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-acquires-periscope-for-a-sizable-amount-2015-3) (not even *Business Insider* knows for sure.) The app was briefly in direct competition with [Meerkat](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/meerkat/) - the since-extinct [arguably originating](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/the-inevitable-democratization/) service in the space. + +> By building a [dead-simple broadcasting interface that piggybacks on Twitter](https://beta.techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/meerkat/)‘s interest graph for identity, communication, and distribution, Meerkat made the first mobile livestreaming app that “just works." + +Meerkat was an important rung in the ladder, but it ultimately [died](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37555100) at the hands of Periscope due to its lack of a stream archive. "The [surprise emergence of Meerkat](http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/17/8234769/how-meerkat-conquered-all-at-sxsw) as a social phenomenon this year has been accompanied by a frequent complaint: the links are usually dead by the time you click them," [reported Casey Newton for *The Verge*](https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8293353/periscope-live-streaming-twitter-meerkat). + +> For everything it got right, Meerkat still looks like an app built in eight weeks — which it was. Periscope has been in development for more than a year, and the app arrives showing nice attention to detail. + +Periscope, by contrast, maintains an [archive of past broadcasts](https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/9/11635382/periscope-permanent-broadcasts-search-drone-integration-dji) for a significant period and allows users to [save broadcasts locally](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/save-broadcast) on their phones. We have to remember how much has changed in the past five years in mobile terms. [Dan Frommer in *Quartz*](https://qz.com/365293/it-took-a-decade-but-mobile-video-is-finally-exploding/): + +> What has changed? Almost everything. Mobile phones are faster and more powerful, with large screens capable of displaying beautiful, high-definition video. Mobile networks—where LTE service is available, at least—can now easily handle high-quality streams in both directions. Data service is frequently affordable. + + + +In 2015-2016, I worked afternoons (3-11PM) at a grocery store gas station in a moderately-sized shopping center on the South side of Columbia, Missouri. After work, I'd sit in my old Jaguar parked in front of the laundromat (for the WiFi) chainsmoking cigarettes on Periscope, talking about anything. I found my only real following, ever there. Friends like [Juanita](https://www.pscp.tv/Jquinta) and [Nicole](https://www.pscp.tv/Nicole3) were made. [Ashers](https://www.pscp.tv/OMFGAshers) bought me a pack of cigarettes once (thank you!) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/Notes-Periscope Magic.md b/notes/Notes-Periscope Magic.md index c61348ed..1cf735b0 100644 --- a/notes/Notes-Periscope Magic.md +++ b/notes/Notes-Periscope Magic.md @@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ # Notes-Periscope Magic +- [GitHub Issue](https://github.com/extratone/bilge/issues/79) +- [A Good Place Periscope Magic](drafts://open?uuid=4B149084-B41C-4C82-8FD2-0FB7CCF67B6B) +- [WTF](https://davidblue.wtf/drafts/480EF899-1228-4751-BFA2-1F197BF1B71A.html) + + "[**Meet people, explore the world**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/periscope-live-video-streaming/id972909677)" Turns out, Periscope *does* have a [data export tool](https://www.pscp.tv/account/your-data) and it's actually quite advanced. ## History +- [Periscope: Anglesey man behind video streaming app](bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=E3EE94BE-428F-4EBC-94BB-0A1F5C266FF2-87497-00000954DED1172F) - [x] "[What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope](https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-periscope-and-why-twitter-bought-it-2015-3)" | *Business Insider* +- [What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope](bear://x-callback-url/open-note?id=654E2347-8B75-4587-BF71-7E4F591D06C1-87497-000009555D8DB487) - [ ] "[Twitter Buys Live Streaming App Periscope](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/twitter-in-talks-with-live-streaming-app-periscope/)" | *TechCrunch* - [ ] "[Twitter Confirms Periscope Acquisition, And Here's How The Livestreaming App Works](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/13/how-periscope-works/)" | *TechCrunch* - [ ] "[The Race To Make Everyone A Livestreamer](https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/08/the-inevitable-democratization/)" | *TechCrunch* @@ -43,13 +50,17 @@ Turns out, Periscope *does* have a [data export tool](https://www.pscp.tv/accoun > What excites us most about Periscope is the power of seeing something for yourself. We watched someone rise above the Sonoma valley in a hot air balloon; we witnessed “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” directly from Ferguson, Missouri, a terrifying fire that erupted in San Francisco’s Mission district and a live performance from a pianist who played any song requested from the audience. - [ ] "[Periscope, by the Numbers](https://medium.com/periscope/periscope-by-the-numbers-6b23dc6a1704)" | *Periscope* on *Medium*

You may have heard some news: It involves a blue bird. #YouCanGuessTheRest #WeJoinedTheFlockInJanuary #AreWeUsingThisRight #IsThisThingOn

— Periscope (@PeriscopeCo) March 13, 2015
+ ## Profiles + - [x] [Juanita Ureno Leblanc](https://www.pscp.tv/Jquinta) - [ ] [Greg](https://www.pscp.tv/highhopes) - [ ] [Xanath](https://www.pscp.tv/xanathsp) - [ ] [Ashers](https://www.pscp.tv/OMFGAshers) - [ ] [Nicole](https://www.pscp.tv/Nicole3) + ## Current State of Periscope + - [ ] "[Periscope CEO: We're Growing (And Facebook Doesn't Scare Us One Bit!)](https://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11587300/periscope-growing-livestreaming-facebook)" | *Recode* > “We were thinking about this before it was super interesting to the big players so the fact that Facebook, the 800-pound gorilla, woke up one day and decided that live was interesting is very flattering for us. They couldn’t have been further from this a year ago.” - [ ] "[Cisco: Online video to account for 82% of all Internet traffic by 2021!](https://techblog.comsoc.org/2017/06/10/cisco-increased-use-of-web-video-to-be-82-of-all-internet-traffic-by-2021/)" | *Cisco* @@ -57,8 +68,10 @@ Turns out, Periscope *does* have a [data export tool](https://www.pscp.tv/accoun > Periscope is not dead, and for a small cohort of people, it’s more than a simple platform. It’s the last campfire in the night. - [ ] "[The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/arts/george-floyd-video-racism.html)" | *The New York Times* - [ ] "[The nerve center of the American news cycle](https://www.axios.com/twitter-downloads-george-floyd-misinformation-226ea16c-84a0-4e2e-a85f-dfade902ed01.html)" | *Axios* + ## Competition - [ ] "[Mark Zuckerberg Is 'Obsessed' With Livestreaming, Making Live a Top Priority at Facebook](https://www.vox.com/2016/2/26/11588264/mark-zuckerberg-is-obsessed-with-livestreaming-making-live-a-top)" | *Recode* + ## My Scopes - [ ] [Jefferson City Protest and Closing Prayer](https://www.periscope.tv/AsphaltApostle/1eaJbQjdNlnGX) ![Closing Prayer - Jefferson City Protest](https://i.snap.as/CRfCziF.png) \ No newline at end of file