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More meaningful uses for Periscope, Meerkat and the inevitable flurry of rivals will emerge too, however.
Strangely, given that real life is now imitating Eggers' art so closely, little of the coverage for Periscope and Meerkat references The Circle.
"It's very early days for Periscope but businesses as well as individuals are starting to use it in creative ways," he said.
Spokespeople for Periscope, the livestreaming video app owned by Twitter, and WhatsApp, a messaging app owned by Facebook, said their services were live.
Another podcast, Truth and Justice, has dealt with the case and its creator Bob Ruff was in the audience of the Islamic Center filming Chaudry's talk for Periscope as a film crew scurried around.
Live.ly (Free) Lip-synching app Musical.ly has become something of a craze on smartphones, but this new spinoff is different: a direct rival for Periscope, YouNow and other live-streaming services.
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Included among the new goodies for users of Periscope for iOS is teleporting, a feature courtesy of 3D Touch support that will transport you to a random part of the world and drop you right into a broadcast from there.
It's useful for "periscoping," which is to say not actually Periscope live-streaming but acting as a viewfinder while you hold the camera up high at the end of your arm's maximum vertical reach.
Inside are plans for an early communications satellite; a design for a car radio with a readout of the title the music being played; instructions for a periscope for the head; directions for a gizmo that plays music on a bicycle wheel; and specifications for a round checkerboard.
Hence, the rise of Dubsmash and Musical.ly for lipsyncing, Periscope and Facebook Live for broadcasting, Prisma and Artisto for reimagining images and Boomerang and Phhhoto for generating GIFs.
For now Periscope – and Meerkat – is in the clear.
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