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This is wonderful. The effect of switching between videos from all over the world of people doing all sorts of things sounds like it could be dehumanizing — I find it anything but. It reminds me a little of our admin view at Beme, where we had a live feed into videos people were sharing publicly all around the world in real time. Really cool to see the sunset and the sun rise at the same time.

These videos are wonderful, great execution on the project.

I never heard of Beme before now, interesting concept, but it looks like it had a fiery beginning (a million uploads in the first week) and then... ?

Sold to CNN in 2016 for $US25M

Was a pump & dump by Casey Neistat. Lacked true popularity and network effects as it turned out people don't want to share unedited, raw footage. Social media is about looking good. So Casey just used his YouTube/influencer popularity at the time to pump metrics and then managed to sell it to CNN. No idea what CNN did with the tech or people but not much later they shut it down entirely.

The keming got me, I totally read that as Berne and wondered what you were admining in Berne with video streams. Nvm.

That’s an extremely unfair characterization. It was an honest attempt to make a product; the product didn’t catch on; CNN acquihired the team.

You are just describing a regular startup, that’s not a pump & dump which makes it sound like a scam.

Are you still in touch with Casey? I’ve watched him for 10+ years now so always fascinating to hear about his work.