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New Year’s Eve Live CountdownThe official live feed of the countdown in New York’s Times Square is on Livestream! The Times Square Alliance brings you six hours of entertainment including a performance by platinum recording artist Taio Cruz. The action begins with the Confetti Test on Wednesday December 29 and continues to the Giant Switch Test on Thursday December 30, while the ball-raising ceremony starts at 6pm EST on the night. You can watch the festivities anywhere you are with our Times Square App, now available in the App Store and the Android Market! Be there as New York rings in the New Year, only at http://livestream.com/2011! |
By Charlie White [from the original posted on Mashable on December 21]
Can’t be in Times Square for New Year’s Eve? The Times Square Ball App for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android could be the next best thing. The free app features a live video feed of the New Year’s Eve festivities from Times Square, offering six-and-a-half hours of bands, frolic and festivities without any commercials in between. There’s also a customizable countdown clock to 2011, situated front and center on the main screen of the app and adjustable for the time zone of the user.
Users can check in to Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter through the app, which will show them precisely how far they are away from Times Square. The app also invites users to submit photos of their revelry and debauchery, and then vote on photos submitted by other users. The photos with the most votes will be shown on the huge video screen atop One Times Square, just underneath the Waterford Crystal ball that makes its annual descent at midnight. [see below for a demo video of the app]
Produced by Monday Sessions Media, developed by HAAS/créa, and streaming components developed by Livestream LLC., it’s available now on the Android Market and App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and it requires iOS 3.0 or later.
