All the Features Facebook Copied From Snapchat in 2016 (recode.net) 62
Last year, Facebook looked several times at Snapchat, a company that reportedly refused to be acquired by the social giant, for new features in Facebook Messenger, and its Instagram services. From a report on Recode: Here's the list of features Facebook launched this year that appear to be direct threats to Snapchat:
1. Facebook bought MSQRD, an app that creates silly face filters, in March.
2. It has since added the face filter technology to the main Facebook app and Messenger.
3. Facebook started testing a new Snapchat-style camera inside its main app. Messages sent using the new camera are ephemeral.
4. Facebook built a Snapchat clone app called Flash specifically for emerging markets like Brazil.
5. Instagram ripped off Snapchat's Stories feature. (It actually works pretty well.) Instagram also added ephemeral messaging.
1. Facebook bought MSQRD, an app that creates silly face filters, in March.
2. It has since added the face filter technology to the main Facebook app and Messenger.
3. Facebook started testing a new Snapchat-style camera inside its main app. Messages sent using the new camera are ephemeral.
4. Facebook built a Snapchat clone app called Flash specifically for emerging markets like Brazil.
5. Instagram ripped off Snapchat's Stories feature. (It actually works pretty well.) Instagram also added ephemeral messaging.
Silly face filters need to die (Score:1)
So does anyone who puts that stupid fucking puppy mouth and eyes on their pictures.
Re: Silly face filters need to die (Score:2, Funny)
No, those are awesome. It tells me who I should never associate with.
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Silly face filters need to die
I on the other hand hope your capacity for childhood whimsy can live again someday. Nearly everything I do with my two year old daughter could be considered childish, unmanly, unproductive, etc by curmudgeons like you, but I am glad not everyone shares your bleak view on what forms of entertainment are acceptable. Watching my daughter laugh as her tongue becomes huge in the phone screen is a damn good use of my time, IMHO, and my family members asking for more snap-chats like that seem to agree.
I also can g
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Now your just rubbing it in. For many of us whimsy was the first thing to go, replaced by a bitter sarcasm we mistook for humor. (you insensitive clod)
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Don't worry he's just suffering from post-partum lobotomy syndrome, where the environmental retardation effects of 'a new family' makes everything his little darling does special and worth sharing. (some say they're just suffering from sleep deprivation) Some breeders suffer from this more than once in their lives even though there no medical reason after the first occurrence. It's just a form of repressed hysteria.
We are all different ! - I'm not! (Score:2)
Yup, it's a complete lack of originality.
Firing up GIMP (or Photoshop or whatever) to quickly make an original edit based on an idea that you just had (no matter if the result is a bit goofy) : th
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You're quoting the same "Life of Brian" quote that everybody who complains about other peoples' lack of originality use.
Woosh! (Score:2)
You're quoting the same "Life of Brian" quote that everybody who complains about other peoples' lack of originality use.
I think the word you're looking for is "Meta".
Ephemeral? (Score:3)
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How will they copy... (Score:4, Interesting)
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2. Don't friend your parents.
2a. Block your parents and your friends' parents and tell them you deleted your Facebook account.
3. Sell all weed and ecstasy you want.
4. Profit.
Why wouldn't they? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's easier to pay a few developers than buy a company with a stupid valuation. Who'd have thought it? Shame for Snapchat but that's business.
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Important! (Score:3)
Facerecognition : 10 years ago vs. now (Score:2)
Except nerds know that snapchat {...} implement it in a chat-application. And nerds would be interested in the technological aspects {...} at least the nerds slashdot was originally aimed at.
10 years ago, some /.er might have been interested in automatic matching a "feature mesh" over a photo with some OpenCV powered face recognition software.
(So that any face edit meme that gets suddenly popular on something awful can quickly be implemented with a short script and rolled to snapchat end users with minimal originallity).
Nowadays, the interests of most /.er is in how *NOT* to have their face detected [cvdazzle.com] by the apps.
Common where have you been hidden during the last 10 Chaos Computing Club Congresses
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Nowadays, the interests of most /.er is in how *NOT* to have their face detected by the apps.
It's just a matter of time before none of that shit works any more. There are no technical solutions to social problems, at least, not ones that last. If you want a better world, you're going to have to go forth and make it the hard way. Not with technology, but with actual involvement.
Social problems vs. OpenCV (Score:2)
Yes, I fully understand that the problem faced when trying to save privacy are complex social ones.
I'm just pointing that, unlike what the above poster is saying, even from technical point of view, Snapchat's Silly Face are idiotic and un-interesting.
"Finding faces" used to by a technically interesting challenge 10 years ago.
(And the first real-time camera-mapped avatars invented in the late 90s / early 2000s were *where* the new technological development was happening).
(Snapchat's Silly Faces isn't anythin
They didn't copy 3 (Score:5, Insightful)
> Messages sent using the new camera are ephemeral.
You think, they are ephemeral, because YOU cannot see them anymore.
And snapchat 'ripped off' those before. (Score:3)
The notion that any of these ideas is particularly innovative is ridiculous. ... all have been around since at least the 80s.
All of the text-based ideas applied to the video world.
Short messages, time-based messages, messages with silly effects,
The fact you applied an obvious thing to a new technology does not make you specially innovative in any way that deserves protection.
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The notion that any of these ideas is particularly innovative is ridiculous.
I'd go further and say that the fact that Facebook copied these feature should surprise no one, and even further, most people should not care. It's hard to get worked up over stealing meaningless technology that makes the world dumber.
And... (Score:3)
Here's the list of fucks I give :
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You should because the dominant social networks are all trying to eat each others' user bases and we don't want there to be a clear winner. That's super bad for free speech.
Ephemeral Facebook??? (Score:3)
Based on past performance, and current evidence that Facebook has been buying user data from other sources in a very aggressive effort to further "commoditize" users, who would be stupid enough to believe, "messages sent using the new camera are ephemeral"?
Really...you'd have to be seriously daft to trust Facebook about that.
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Did you notice the goof who responded to my comment, taking the view that Facebook would never dare, and anybody who thinks they would must be a tinfoil hatter?
Poor credulous fucker.
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Really...you'd have to be seriously daft to trust Facebook about that.
You're right. But you have to be even dafter not to apply Occam's razor to the situation. What's more likely, that they will keep a video that was shared between two parties who are expressly told that the video is ephemeral while trying to monetise it despite it having next to no value compared to the data they already get from the user's phone and actions while using facebook all the while potentially risking a huge fucking lawsuit not to mention what would happen in Germany, France and the EU for breachi
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No doubt Volkswagen had the same mindset with respect to Diesel engine emissions. Of course they wouldn't dare! (snicker)
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There's a difference between breaking some government regulation that no one cares about, and expressly doing the one thing you claim that your service does.
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You don't seriously expect anybody to buy that argument, I hope. That "regulation nobody cares about" is going to cost Volkswagen more money world-wide than any fine in history. And yes, building Diesel automobiles that performed like gasoline autos was central to Volkswagen's business plan.
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You don't seriously expect anybody to buy that argument
Nope. I'm not selling an argument. I'm just stating a fact. You're falling into the same trap of comparing one thing against another despite having very different motivations and consequences.
That "regulation nobody cares about" is going to cost Volkswagen more money world-wide than any fine in history.
And yet people are still happily buying Volkswagons because it wasn't the people who cared. What a company gets as a fine is irrelevant providing they don't burn through the good will of the customers.
And yes, building Diesel automobiles that performed like gasoline autos was central to Volkswagen's business plan.
And they still do, And they still build cars, and they still sell them to people. PEOPLE didn't care. Governments did.
Well (Score:2)
Gosh darn them! (Score:1)
Stop the presses, boys! A company copies popular concepts from another company in their same industry. News at 11!
Could msmash prove how much more of a tech bigot they are? Such a crap editor.
Good (Score:2)
The fewer proprietary, walled-garden chat networks that exist, the better. Now if Facebook would just eliminate WhatsApp, they'd be making some real progress.
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What I think you meant to say is "the fewer people using proprietary, walled-garden chat networks." What happens is that, if FB steals SC's users, the total number of users remains constant, and now there are fewer networks. As that number trends to 0, they don't become less popular, they achieve monopoly status. So, that's less innovation, more dicking over all customers, and crucially for a communications platform, the ability to
And nothing of value was gained ... (Score:2)
This is what happens when immature people are given any responsibility without oversight by adults. The same type of people that name servers after Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/Star Trek people/places/things and later hopefully learn how moronic they sound explaining things to the adults that provide their funding/paychecks and grow out of it.