March 2010
1 post
12seconds Roundup: Twitter - we're over it
It’s been a while since we sent out what used to be our weekly roundup. To be honest, we’ve been pretty busy making some dough doing side projects in order to keep the servers running. We’ve been exploring where to take 12seconds and could use your input.
Twitter is so 2009
We originally built 12seconds to be its own video community and then we integrated it closely with...
November 2009
1 post
12seconds launches on the new TweetDeck for iPhone
We are super stoked that TweetDeck’s new iPhone app (which launched earlier today) includes video recording supplied by 12seconds. We’ve been working with the fine blokes over at TweetDeck world headquarters for a long time. They have created an amazing application on the Desktop and incredibly ported the same feeling and environment to the iPhone. As iPhone developers...
October 2009
1 post
Get Crackin' 12seconds!
You might have noticed there’s a new awesome, amazing, campaign on 12seconds - the Get Crackin’ video contest. This is perfect fodder for the 12seconds crew! Take 12seconds to show you crack a pistachio (with or without an actual pistachio) and be entered to win a Macbook Pro, a Flip Camera as well as a bunch of other super rad prizes. If you haven’t seen the campaign yet,...
August 2009
1 post
12cast iPhone app for the 3GS & Contest
12cast for iPhone 3GS! Today we’re stoked to announce 12cast, the simplest way to get your videos to Twitter using the iPhone 3GS. It’s free and available on the app store right now, click here. Login with your Twitter account, tilt the phone to the left and you’re recording! Title your post and your video is on Twitter. Our goal was to make getting a video to Twitter as...
July 2009
1 post
New Twitter Features + Happy 1st Birthday!
Tomorrow is 12seconds first birthday. What was going on back then? Did you know that Jacob was actually at Summer Camp? Beach was growing his “funding” beard (he finally had to give up and shave it). and I was so excited that we got on TechCrunch! Many others (too many to list!) helped launch 12seconds and get it going. Both technically and emotionally, the support we’ve...
June 2009
5 posts
Seesmic, 12seconds and Social Video
Normally I wouldn’t do this but given that Loic mentions 12seconds in his Seesmic video post to the community, I thought I’d give some quick feedback on the state of social video. Given that many friends on Twitter and 12seconds have been pinging me about our “flat growth” (as described in the video) it seemed appropriate.
First of all, as a business, it really helps to...
12up at TechKaraoke in NYC
Hello friends! Sol and Jakey are off to the Big Apple to get extra nerdy at the 140Conf. If you still would like to go we have 50% discounts still available. Hit me up on Twitter.
We’re really excited to invite everyone to join in at the TechKaraoke event on Wednesday night at a place called Pulse. Seems like Pulse is a serious TechKaraoke kind of place and we’re pretty...
Announcing Privacy and Special Deals for the...
First of all, did you notice that we redesigned the entire site? Yep, the whole thing. We announced it last week. Check it out. When’s the last time you took the daily challenge? Every day there’s a new wacky challenge. As a matter of fact, today is: Would You Rather Wednesday (WYRW)! Just click on the daily challenge button in that top action bar for all the fun you could possibly...
Changes to the Daily Challenge
We forgot to include this in the roundup…..
Changes to the Daily Challenge We’re going to try doing the challenge for a while without voting. We used to do it where we picked the winner at around midnight every night so we’re going back to that. It really allowed us to interact with folks more and we miss it. Also, Daily Challenges end/start at midnight starting tonight...
We redesigned 12seconds - all of it.
Hello 12ers,
Check out the new, improved and awesome 12seconds.tv Last week we added further Twitter integration and made your feed real-time. This week we were finally able to finish a redesign that has been a long time in the planning. We think it’s beautiful and hope you do too. Things that are coming up very soon:
privacy
direct video messaging
new focus on the daily challenge
...
May 2009
3 posts
Real Time Twitter Conversation and a Big Favor
This week 12seconds is busting a move (or two)! - addition of twitter @replies and DMs to your feed - everything on 12seconds is going to happen in real-time (auto-updating) - you can now register using just your Twitter credentials Okay, what the heck does that all mean? Twitter @replies and DMs into your real-time feed If you’ve connected your Twitter account to 12seconds...
Happy Memorial Day weekend message!
Announcing Facebook Connect!
We’re excited that we just launched a pretty big feature… Facebook Connect! Our singular goal at 12seconds is to make sharing those short blasts of video easy. We recognize that just about everyone has a Facebook account. Connecting your 12seconds account to your FB account does some awesome things… 1. Your FB friends can watch your 12seconds posts in the FB news feed 2. If...
April 2009
6 posts
WatchBawling because you are so phucking awesome. on 12seconds.tv
I’m very sad to relay that our dear friend, Pasha passed away today after a long, courageous fight with cancer. This is a great loss as Pasha was a great man. We knew him through his tweets and via his web cam. He was funny, intelligent, encouraging, caring, fascinating and interested in the well being of others. He’d...
Alerting us to inappropriate content
Hey everyone,
Happy Friday! - Just wanted to mention the little update to the site today. You’ll notice little flags in your video feeds to the very left, as well as flags next to comments and the video itself on the main single video pages. These flags are there for you to alert us to inappropriate content that may be on the site. As we grow and gather more users, we’re bound to have...
This Week: 12omercials!, Statistics, and a site...
Here’s the latest updates from the 12osphere:
Site Status
We’re now 100% operational (including our API) and should actually be running even faster and smoother than before. Thanks for your patience as we delt with our hosting provider’s outages yesterday.
12omercials - the first “tweet-able commercial” Need to get rid of that old couch, sell that bike for some...
12seconds Maintenance Issues Bulletin
Just wanted to provide some updates of what is working and what isn’t. As many of you know, we suffered through a full data center outage this morning as our hosting provider was literally wiped off the internet for several hours. This happened while we were performing upgrades for this mornings (which then became this afternoon’s) new feature launch. Because of the unfortunate timing,...
Fessing Up
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12seconds Roundup! Procreation! 12for12!
Dear 12ers, It’s Spring and just like cute, furry animals in the forest we are spawning new 12ers! Documentally had Kidumentally, DudetoDad is now completely a Dad and Jeremy had himself a little mon (spelled correctly, trust me, click it). Congrats to all! The Good Stuff Neil Patrick Harris and Joss Whedon (among others) made an appearance on 12seconds at the Streamys - check it out!...
March 2009
9 posts
Watchrabbithole:
Angie and I always find a way to get into trouble, but this time it was thanks to @thesolster, who was able to sneak us back to his dressing room for a pre-show cocktail and quick 12sec vid.
WatchLast night I was at the Streamys with a lot of really cool people. Anyway, the Streamys asked 12seconds if we wouldn’t help out with some backstage interviews. I wasn’t sure what it was all going to be like but it turned out to be pretty cool. I met a bunch of people from Kodak and Ketchum (their PR firm). They were promoting their new camera, the Zi6 (it’s a Flip...
superbadass12er update
We’re still compiling the list - the superbadass12ers will rise soon! SBA12rs4LIFE!
A special message for the superbadass12ers
Wordpress Plugin for 12seconds →
sol12seconds:
This is a quick and easy way to add 12seconds to your WordPress site. Thanks Chandimac!
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By Sol
12seconds needs you. We need you to not only utilize our service when convenient but to participate in the growth of 12seconds. Without the enthusiasm that a community brings, we’re just another site that has a cool twitter tool. But that little spark of community makes all the difference. It creates friendships and jokes. You start to care about people, real people and their...
Changing up the bloggy blog
Sol here. When we first started 12seconds we were using Tumblr to blog and then we switched to WordPress for a while. As soon as we made that switch, we seem to have started to blog less. So, we’re going to make a concerted effort to blog more. The crappy thing is that in addition to blogging less we were seriously less responsive to comments and community interaction. This is why video...
WatchThis is a cool video of Sol and Jakey hanging out with Mike Sugarman who is the technology correpondent for CBS news in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was a lot of fun!
