Threadlife, a video-making app for iPhone from app developer Seedbar, does the thing it does very well. The question is whether anybody will be interested in the thing it does.
Threadlife lets you create a collage of your life in three-second bursts of video the developers call “stitches.” The idea isn’t to create a home movie, but more of an impressionistic thread of the events of your life. You can do this by creating one, ever-lengthening thread of video that you add to (in those aforementioned three-second bursts) in perpetuity, or by creating a new thread for individual, distinct events that you wish to document. Given the three-second limit on video, however, the effect can occasionally seem quite disjointed.
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