12seconds.tv Partners with Current TV and Flixwagon to Cover the US Presidential Election

Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) October 30, 2008

12seconds.tv, the video sharing site known for short form content, is partnering with Current TV and Flixwagon on Election Day to bring user generated content to millions of households worldwide. Current TV is a media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute media that informs, enriches and inspires, and Flixwagon is a live mobile broadcasting provider. 12seconds.tv is known for its twelve-second limitation on all videos that greatly lowers the barrier for consumers to share thoughts, moments and activities, and also makes it easy for viewers to consume content.

On November 4th, Current TV will receive a feed of all election-related content from 12seconds that will be incorporated in Current’s election coverage. Beginning 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on election night Current will bring the best of the Web to television with a real-time stream of the most important results, facts and information, creating a comprehensive newsfeed that gives viewers a completely new way to experience election night.

“We want to feel the pulse of the election so we’re asking our 12ers armed with mobile phones and webcams to document their experiences on Election Day,” says Sol Lipman, 12seconds Co-Founder. “We hope to gather content from parties, experience the emotions and hear plenty of opinions.”

12seconds members submit video using webcams, mobile phones and now through the live streaming service Flixwagon. Flixwagon provides high-quality live video broadcasting from mobile phones to the Web and TV. Flixwagon users who link their account with 12seconds will have the first twelve seconds of their content published to 12seconds.tv. This content will then also be available on Current.

12seconds.tv was founded by a team of passionate entrepreneurs, developers and designers. It is based in Santa Cruz, CA.

About 12seconds.tv

12seconds is the best way to share video moments from your life, using your web cam or mobile phone. Show your friends where you are, share your thoughts, or tell the world how you’re doing. 12seconds was conceived and developed by a small team, mostly from Santa Cruz, CA. Why only 12 seconds? Because anything longer is boring.

About Flixwagon:

Flixwagon is changing how people and organizations capture and share video on the Web. It provides an application to easily stream live, high-quality video from a mobile phone directly to the Web and TV. With Tier-1 customers such as MTV, Flixwagon’s scalable solution powers largest mobile broadcasts worldwide. Flixwagon is privately held with offices in Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.flixwagon.com, http://blog.flixwagon.com, and http://twitter.com/flixwagon.

About Current:

Current is a cross platform media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute media that informs, enriches and inspires. The company is comprised of Current TV and Current.com, the first fully integrated online and broadcast platforms that help users determine the news and information that is relevant to them. Current connects young adults with what’s going on in their world through its unique blend of citizen journalism and viewer participation, offering programming and content that’s authentic, often surprising and consistently compelling. Current pioneered the television industry’s leading model of interactive viewer created content (VC2) that comprises roughly one-third of Current’s on-air broadcast. The network has also advanced advertising models via Viewer Created Ad Messages (VCAMs).

Current is now viewed in the U.S., U.K., Italy, and Ireland in more than 58 million households through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107 nationwide), Time Warner (nationwide), DirecTV (channel 366 nationwide), Dish Network (channel 196 nationwide), Verizon, AT&T, BSkyB (channel 183), Virgin Media (channel 155) and Sky Italia (channel 130). For more information, please visit http://www.current.com.

Useful Links:

More about 12seconds: http://12seconds.tv/

12seconds blog: http://12seconds.wordpress.com/

Current: http://www.current.com

Flixwagon: http://www.flixwagon.com

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12seconds.tv Partners with Current TV and Flixwagon to Cover the US Presidential Election

World Population May Hit 15+ Billion by 2100 Says Author, More Than Twice Current Global Population: Disaster Looms

(PRWEB) June 04, 2012

Projections from the United Nations suggest that humans may number 10 billion by 2050 and 15 billion by the year 2100. Both of these statistics spell serious problems for a world having difficulty meeting the food and water needs of its current seven billion inhabitants, according to Canadian academic and author Steve Bareham.

Until recently, said Bareham, an instructor at Selkirk College, Nelson, B.C, the UN cited about nine billion by 2050 (see footnote*), then a levelling off and gradual decline, as global prosperity spread and as developing nations followed the lead of the developed countries toward fewer children per family. Evidence now, however, indicates fertility rates are not declining as expected in the developing countries, so the revision to the higher ranges has a lot more credence. If those come to pass, its difficult to imagine a better world for todays young people by 2050, let alone 2100.

Bareham discovered the little-known UN statistics while researching courses in cross cultural communication and conflict management. The research led to the release of two eBooks that draw attention to an issue that could be absolutely catastrophic within four decades. The books are titled PROGENETER, an acronym for progenetic enhancement & entropy termination. They are published through Summa Publishing.

In addition to food and water disparities, its likely that people will face worsening pollution, more dramatic climate change, socio-economic strife, growing inequities between developed and developing nations, and the extinction of thousands more animal species. While 15 billion is unfathomable, even the 10 billion number by 2050 is the equivalent of another China and another India, he said.

The epicentre of growth will be Africa; its population now stands at about one billion but is projected to reach 3.6 billion by 2100, and that continent already has problems supporting its peoples. Conversely, he notes, the Italians and several other European nationalities, are theoretically on their way to extinction because their birth rates have dropped below the 2.1 replacement ratio.

Many statisticians believe the higher population projections are likely to transpire, given the exponential growth of humans over time. Consider, said Bareham, that it took from the beginning of time until the year 1804 for one billion people to inhabit the earth. Then, human numbers exploded:

World Population May Hit 15+ Billion by 2100 Says Author, More Than Twice Current Global Population: Disaster Looms