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Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.


Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera
by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from 
August to October, 2011. All credit goes to them.

HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc.

Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001 
w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by Betke Edition 
janjelinek.com | faitiche.de

Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com

Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, 
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth 
eol.jsc.nasa.gov

Shooting locations in order of appearance:

1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night

MUSIC @ BLACKBERRY

 RIM launches cloud-based BBM Music on BlackBerry App World

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Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) formally launched its cloud-based BBM Music service, enabling the manufacturer's 45 million BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging users to build evolving, community-based music libraries shared among their friends.

BBM Music allows users to share songs with BBM contacts.

RIM kicked off closed BBM Music beta trials in late August. The service touts social and viral discovery tools alongside millions of songs from major labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music, as well as indie distributors like The Orchard and IODA. Users build personal music profiles featuring 50 of their favorite songs, with the flexibility to swap out as many as 25 songs each month--as BlackBerry Messenger contacts join the user's BBM Music Community, music from each new profile becomes available to other community members, meaning a BlackBerry owner with 25 BBM Music friends could expand their library to 1,300 full-length songs.

BBM Music users may cache content for offline access, comment on songs and playlists, create multiple playlists and set all songs in the shared library to shuffle mode. BBM Music also supplies a visual timeline depicting recent updates within the community, complete with a chronological view of new user additions, song additions and subtractions, playlists and comments. RIM previously announced that cloud music service provider Omnifone handles all content management, music hosting and reporting functions as well as compensation reporting for copyright holders.

BBM Music is slated to go live later today via the BlackBerry App World storefront--for now, the service is limited to consumers in the U.S. and Canada, although RIM plans to roll out the application to additional international regions shortly. BBM Music is priced at $4.99 per month, with a 30-day try-before-you-buy offer--for a limited time, RIM is extending the free trial period to 60 days.

BBM Music brings RIM in line with archrivals Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which announced their own cloud music initiatives earlier this year. Its BlackBerry platform continues to fall out of consumer favor in the U.S., making up 19.7 percent of the country's smartphone market as of August (a 5.0 percentage point drop compared to May 2011) according to research firm comScore. Google's Android ended August with 43.7 percent market share, up 5.6 percentage points since May 2011, followed by Apple's iOS at 27.3 percent, up 0.7 percentage points.

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