Broadcast the content of a Channel you create to Twitter, automatically and instantaneously.

For all you Channel admins, just go to the brand new Twitter tab in the Channel settings menu. Enter the username and password of the Twitter account you want to represent your Channel, hit Connect, and you’re off and twoadcasting.

We’ve taken the liberty of creating a selection of some of our best Channels to give the Twittersphere a taste of Redux-style entertainment, available below:

KittyCatLinks
iLoveShortFilms
FeedTheTrolls
BestOfTopGear
FailChannel
EpicMusicVideos
TechGeeksFTW
M0VIEtrailers
Four4DanceMusic
EpicAds
LOLHAHAComedy
EpicMovieScene
LOLOLTweets
WhatTheFtweets
GetSomeAweSome
internetComedy
WhatArtIs
MusicFavorites

Next time you carve out a new Channel, grab a matched Twitter account and see how big of a net your niche can fetch.

Preface- This post is a bit different than that which we normally blog about.  We’re considering adding more categories to this blog with a greater variety of posts ranging from highlights of awesome content and memes to analysis of industry trends, and possibly even featurettes of awesome users who share really cool things on Redux. This first post will be about The AC Transit Bus Fight and we’ll try to sum up all the related content into one easily digestible form.

The AC Transit Bus Fight

Description:

The video of a Vietnam veteran (Thomas Bruso) and an intoxicated African American gentleman (Michael) blew up the Internets after it was posted to YouTube on February 16, 2010. It proceeded to go viral, making its rounds via forums, postings to Facebook, tweets on Twitter and emails/IMs to friends. The amazing thing about it is the timeframe in which it all happened, after being posted it immediately went viral, garnering 1 million views by the end of Feb 17^th or 24 hours after it was first posted.

On Redux the clip received thousands of views (AC Transit Bus Fight on Redux), and this does not include all the meme related content that was shared on Redux (which was substantial).

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What Happened?

Details vary depending on which party you want to believe; however, from what I gather comments by Tom were taken out of context as being racist. Tom had been talking about going to a funeral on Friday and how he was going to have his brother shine his shoes up. Michael proceeded to say “why does a brother have to shine your shoes?” An argument ensued. When Tom tried to distance himself from conflict by going to the front of the bus Michael followed and eventually physically struck Tom. Tom then rained down a hailstorm of flurried blows in self defense.

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Reasons Why It Exploded?

1. Everyone likes a good fist fight (search YouTube, there are hundreds of them)
2. Racial tensions locally (in Oakland) and possibly nationwide/globally
3. Tom’s back story/personality and his shirt (which read “I am a motherfucker”)
4. Multiple subplots:
   1. The girl videotaping the fight egging Michael on.
   2. The girl videotaping the fight then seen taking someone elses bag (some people accused her of stealing, which she denied).
5. Frictionless distribution mechanisms (Twitter, Facebook, Redux, Digg, etc)
6. Mainstream press picked up the story pretty quickly.
7. The Aftermath (see below)

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Spinoff Memes Generated:

1. “Epic Beard Man”
2. “Amber Lamps”
3. “Bring Da Ambalamps”

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The Aftermath:

After The Fight – Outside The Infamous Bus

Description: Vietnam Tom goes off.

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The Day After – Videographer Explains Her Side of the Story

Description: The girl who videotaped the fight makes a video claiming she didn’t steal any bag.

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Post Fight Interview with Tom (a.k.a. “Epic Beard Man” a.k.a. “Vietnam Tom”)-

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“I Am A Motherfucker” – Two Part Film
Part 1 -

Part 2 -

Description:  A two part film documenting Thomas Bruso (infamously known across the internet as Epic Beard Man) and the days surrounding the release of an internet video showcasing a fight on an Oakland public bus.

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Post Fight Interview with Michael (aka the drunk guy)-

Description: Michael claims in a radio interview that Tom’s comment was in fact racist.

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Pre-Fight – “Vietnam Tom” gets tazed by Oakland Police Department-

Description:  Months earlier Tom had been in the news for another incident. Tom was attending an Oakland A’s game where he was asked to leave by security, when he refused they proceeded to taze him in order to force him to cooperate, this was all caught on tape.

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Raw Video of “Epic Beard Man” Being Tazed at an Oakland A’s Game-

Of course, the website is only half the battle – today, we’re going after the big enchilada – your TV set. This morning we’re releasing the Redux Boxee App, a game-changing way to sit back and put you and your friends in control of what you watch on your TV. More importantly, we’re democratizing TV, giving you the power to watch only what you like, and only the best of what’s out there on the web. Avner Ronen, Boxee CEO is a fan of Redux and the new app (and we’re a featured app on the Boxee home screen).

“I love Redux on Boxee,” said Avner Ronen, Boxee CEO. “It takes the pressure off me to decide exactly what I want to watch, and gives me channels of content around some of my favorite subjects like WTF videos or great music.   Redux is pushing the limits of the space and really experimenting with what TV could be.”

We’re huge fans of Boxee here as well. In fact, it’s no accident that we chose to launch our first Redux App on the Boxee platform. Because Boxee supports the latest version of Flash (critical for web video on TV) and is based on python, the Boxee app development platform is extremely developer-friendly and easy to work with. Boxee also has a robust and growing community, with nearly 1 million people using Boxee to connect their computers to their TV – a huge resource for any service built around finding and delivering the best content on the web.

So, here’s the deal:

REVOLUTIONIZING CONTENT DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY

To put it simply, content discovery on the web is a miserable experience. We waste hours out of our day searching and sorting through tons of web clips to find that one 30-second nugget of joy that will get us through the day. That problem becomes even worse when you hook your computer up to your TV. You can’t flip, you can’t visit your favorite channels and just watch, you are stuck fumbling around with your remote trying desperately to find anything worth watching. Well, we’re changing all of that.

CROWD-SOURCED CHANNELS

• Redux on Boxee has hundreds of channels, all built around your specific interests and fed by people who share those interests. Forget NBC, CBS, or FOX – those channels aren’t built for you. With Redux on Boxee if you want to watch nothing but music videos from the ‘90’s, you can. If you love nothing more than to just watch people FAIL over and over and over, we’re not gonna judge. If you’re a movie buff who wants to relive your favorite scenes all day long – go ahead, punk. Make our day. Just flip through your favorite channels, find one you like, and let us entertain you!

JUST SIT BACK AND WATCH

• Redux on Boxee gives you great web content in a great TV experience. When it comes to TV, we’re all lazy. That’s the point, right? We just want to sit there and be entertained. With Redux on Boxee you can kick back and watch a constant stream of personalized content, constantly fed to you in real-time by your friends and the Redux community. Only what’s good, what’s new, and what you want to watch.

Here’s how you get Redux on Boxee:

First, if you haven’t already downloaded the latest version of Boxee, do so HERE

Once you install and launch Boxee, just go to “Applications” and then “App Library” – find Redux and hit “Add to my Apps”

Once Redux is in your “My Apps” directory, just hit “Start” and you’re ready to go!

1. Share a minimum of five things and you’ll get a custom email stats report as often as every week. We’ll tell you how many total Views, Comments and Props your top items received, how many people they touched, and which item was able to outshine the rest.

Total views, comments, and props!

2. You can now link your account to Google Analytics. Just drop by your settings, paste in the tracking code for your Google profile, and be served heaping piles of data about all of the traffic your Profile and shares receive. Fun for amateurs, and “mission-critical” for bloggers and entertainment pros expanding their audience on the ‘dux.

Google Analytics

Happy optimizing!

New Image Uploader

Wanna share a Border Pic fresh from your imagination? Snap a picture of near-pornographic beauty that needs to be oogled? Everything you need to get it live before your fans is all in one place – streamlined, as it were. The images are stored safely on our servers, so your photographic punchline shall remain forever timeless, at least on a technical level. We are an equal opportunity format supporter as well, and we won’t discriminate based on size, color, or aperture. Check it out, and go up yourself.

A Prouder Profile

We’ve emphasized your own shares above all other activity, and have given it a blog-like feel. The result is something that proudly displays what you’ve collected online, and tells your friends and fans what you’re about. Since we feel that what you do on Redux is totally a reflection of you and your identity as a virtual entertainer, and we want to make your profile a more powerful means of sharing that identity with others.

Emboldened as you now are, take this tool and proudly go forth in making the world a more entertaining place, as only you can do.

Now, you can be the one to decide what Channel(s) a post belongs in. This allows you to assign something to as many relevant audiences as you want, and lets others decide other places where your posts can be enjoyed too. Because something can very well be Awesome, LOL, FFFFFFUUUUU at the same time.

Add To Channel

I hope you appreciate is as much as I and the rest of our anal retentive office has. If chaos and disorganization is the enemy, than this little addition is a powerful weapon for the homeland.

Super Props!

I think you already get it from my pastry example, though there’s even more to it than you may think. Unlike freely-available normal props, Superprops can only be given by those who have been awarded Superprops from others. Indeed they are a rare and delectable honor, allowing others to vault your finest Redux moments accordingly, and for you to return the favor should you be so endowed. We think it’ll be a pretty fun feature for the community, and a good way to “mix it up” as it were.

Good luck earning a Superprop or two yourself, and happy ‘duxing.

It is in that spirit, as we close out the first decade of the new millennium, that we present the first annual “Worst of the Web Awards” for 2009 – (we’ve also got some of our “Best of the Web” awards, just to play nice)

So here they are, the worst of the worst. Those things that, once seen, cannot be un-seen. They crush your soul, they make angels cry, their creators should experience a slow death with a spork. In a word, these web finds encompass all that is “FAIL”.

5) Calvin Grows Up, Does Taxes, Kills Hobbes

for those of us who were kids with Calvin and Hobbes, this one hits a little too close to home.

Calvin Grows Up

4) Cheetah Lady

The labored breathing, the insane ranting, the final plea for a condo. Grab your weapons, folks, time to do some exotic game hunting.

Cheetah Lady

3) Brokencyde Makes us Want to Commit Homicyde

Did that 14 year old pile of streaked blonde hair and neon actually just CHOKE a girl? Are the lyrics just “let’s get freaky now” over and over and over again? We don’t remember anything about the four horsemen of the apocalypse cruising in an Escalade, but the end is definitely near.

Brokencyde = Homicyde

2) Fish deep-fried, somehow stays alive

You just know it’s staring at a “Hang in there, kid” poster on the wall.

Live Deep Fried Fish

1) A KITTEN!?! REALLY? YOU KICKED A KITTEN!?!

This was the video that started it all – The Redux community reacted so strongly to this video that comments and emails started pouring in calling for our heads. To put it to rest – yes, we hated this video. No, we did not kick the cat ourselves. And, yes, the cat is fine.

Too gruesome to show (WARNING: Extremely disturbing video after the jump. Do not click this link if you love kittens. If you hate kittens, go ahead and click. We’ll be quietly judging you.)

Computer still working? Haven’t smashed it or overloaded it sending hate-mail to Redux? Good! Allow us to make amends:

Presenting the Top web finds of the year, as voted on by the Redux community.

5) Football player tackles own teammate

Ok, so this is technically a “FAIL” but, honestly, try to watch and not laugh at the reaction of the kid who just realizes what he’s done.

Football player tackles own team mate!

4) Sick steel drummer

Awesome drummer pounds out the new theme song for CSI Jamaica.

Slick steel drummer

3) 91cm from himself

Man gets hit by a meteor and slips exactly 91cm from himself – What can we say? We’re suckers for art films

91cm from himself

2) The one man flash mob strikes!

Either this guy has cojones of steel or Asperger Syndrome. Whatever the cause, the result is awesome.

Redux one man Flash Mob

1) Epic Bohemian Rhapsody

Redux recreates Bohemian Rhapsody as only Redux can – We love our community, this is just one of the many reasons why.

Epic Bohemian Rhapsody

Finer control over how and how often Redux notifies you!

Finer control over how and how often Redux notifies you!

This is particularly helpful when the word gets out about how awesome you are, and you suddenly get 100 fan notifications a day. Popularity can be a burden, and we’re doing what we can to make it easier for our best users to bear.

Team Redux