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Time-Lapse Video - How Techmeme Change Over Time

It’s amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news.

This Techmeme video clip captures 50 hours of Techmeme activity and replays it in 50 seconds. So you get a good idea about how the Techmeme homepage changes over a period of time.

Related: How to Get Your Blog on Techmeme

This Time-Lapse video was created using 600 screenshots of Techmeme website taken at an interval of 5 minutes (starting January 3, 12:00 AM EST until January 5, 02:00 AM EST). It took around 2-3 hours to shoot and edit the video - I will be soon sharing the full procedure on how to create such a time-lapse video.

If you are looking to download a high-res version, click here [QuickTime, 13 MB].

And the main inspiration for producing this video is John Udell.

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Published on January 6, 2008 under Blogging, Internet
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Reader Comments

#1 Aniq Rahman 01.06.08

Awesome video, Amit! Very cool to see (and funny how Scoble makes such big news throughout the day for running the little Plaxo bot)…

#2 Howard 01.06.08

really good idea. like watchinga formula or puzzle being worked out

#3 Eric Friedman 01.06.08

Very cool video. I would be interested to see how it was done - I feel like this could be an automated process. Thanks for taking the time.

Ed: Eric, you are right - this was an automated process and took less than 2 hours to achieve including screen capture and producing the video. Will post a detailed tutorial on creating a time-lapse video in the coming days.

#4 marc 01.06.08

very cool. Looking forward to seeing the tutorial on how you were able to do this (hopefully) effortlessly. :)

Ed: Thanks Marc. It will be up soon.

#5 Baher 01.06.08

Great video, I applaud you for this innovative and fun idea!!!

And since you’re on the subject, another meme tracker “Megite” is overtaking Techmeme recently according to compete.com:

Maybe you could do a similar video on Megite, and let’s compare the two of them :D

Could result in some interesting notes, don’t you agree?

#6 anon 01.06.08

That was an atypical fifty hour period. Try again on a Tuesday after CES and Macworld.

#7 Niyaz PK 01.06.08

Cool…

#8 Steve Mills 01.06.08

Great video, thanks for putting the time in to produce it.

Goes to show that a short, illustrative video says a million words.

#9 vasudev 01.07.08

Thanks Amit! Nice !
Story also appeared on Techmeme also.
Your story also appeared on TechMeme.
Time-lapse Techmeme!
http://news.techmeme.com/080106/time-lapse

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