Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' (theverge.com) 54
Last year, the six-second video social media app called Vine was shut down by Twitter. The Verge reports that Vine's co-founder, Dom Hofmann, says he's working on "a follow-up to Vine," where he will be funding the project himself outside of his current company, Interspace. "I'm going to work on a follow-up to vine. i've been feeling it myself for some time and have seen a lot of tweets, dms, etc.," Hofmann tweeted.
Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate on his plans. It's possible the follow-up site could be another short-term video app similar to the original Vine, or some other project that will look to build on the foundation Vine started. Would you be interested in a new Vine-like social media app, or did Vine never really appeal to you to begin with?
Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate on his plans. It's possible the follow-up site could be another short-term video app similar to the original Vine, or some other project that will look to build on the foundation Vine started. Would you be interested in a new Vine-like social media app, or did Vine never really appeal to you to begin with?
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
We can't wait for more worthless social media platforms! ;)
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Maybe something identical to youtube but it automatically edits out pointless splash screens, repetitive content in a less-than-ten-minute video, and converts content that would be better in text form from video to text?
And also sends out flying killer robots to murder the families of people wh
"Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate on his plans." (Score:1)
This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism that has been sorely missing on slashdot lately. Thanks Beau.
WOW! (Score:2)
This is BIG news! ...
Maybe ...
Sort of ...
Possibly ...
I don't know...
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Im pretty sure twitter bought vine, then abandoned it. Probably bought it just to get rid of the competition
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These 12 second video platforms always seem a bit apocalyptic to me. In fact if I were writing a apocalyptic sci fi I'd have that as a plot point - videos would appear where people try to explain what the problem is but get cut off due to platform limitations.
Pointless variations = CANCER (Score:4, Interesting)
Vine is as ridiculous as Twitter, as a poinzless variation on something that is already existing.
It is just a file sharer ... limited to videos ... limited to a few seconds.
*gasp*
Like you couldn't just use a normal video hoster for this. Hell, give FTP a faster search function, some extended attributes, and enforce a certain file system structure, and you got the exact same functionality! Or actually even more!
As it could replace YouTube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Blogs, Sharehosters, and pretty much everything else like that out there.
This is the same insanity as "apps": There's an app for everything because there HAS to be an app for every permutation of combinations of functionality!
Because apparently, the iDiots that come up with this shit either do not understand the concept of a computer (its universality being the point!), or deliberately transform it into a fixed-function appliance/gadget so you cannot treat it *like a computer*, but HAVE to get a different tool or each different job.
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Indeed, Twitter may or may not be ridiculous for you. It actually is a great communication tool. It, just like the phone, email, even Slashdot Forums can be absurd at times.
Twitter is about several things, IMO. (Not limited to these, just an off the cuff quick list).
1) Real-Time conversation (generally).
2) Finding conversation that interests you - just like why Slashdotters, in general, are here. (It is obvious we disagree in many areas, but technology seems to be an underlying connecting thread HERE).
3) Ve
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Yeah, and who needs slashdot? All we really need is flat text files in one big folder for each of our comments.
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Like you couldn't just use a normal video hoster for this.
Keep It Short Stupid is a good principle, but not something most people hold themselves to. A platform that FORCES brevity might logically seem stupid, but it works. How else do you explain twitter's rise in popularity when facebook already existed? Better marketing?
Vine clips were an interesting niche for humor. Try watching some of their vines hosted on youtube. Then try to watch anything they've done on youtube with no constraints on time. It's clear that most are in need of forced editing.
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The good principle is not as simple: To keep information 1. density at the right level for the reader, and 2. well-structured. Otherwise "Yo" would be the best of all messengers, because it has nearly the maximum shortness.
I'd argue that writing in general, people tend to err towards not dense enough, which is why limiting length helps. People are more geared to talking with conversations where the information density corrects itself through interaction with the audience. With writing, rambling on is more natural than condensing.
Scientific proposals, newspaper writing, twitter, book editors, they all converge on having short limits because of this.
truth in headlines (Score:1)
"Privileged Ball-scratcher Scratches Balls Again"
Familiar Odours Linger
Didn't RTFA (Score:5, Funny)
My attention span is shot from years of social media abuse, so I didn't read the article.
Could someone post a 9 second video of them summarising it for me?
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Could someone post a 9 second video of them summarising it for me?
No, I can't. Vine was shut down!
Good for him (Score:2)
if it that is what keeps him busy and happy.
great news! (Score:1)
Let me guess (Score:2)
Twelve second videos?
The new 7 second video platform (Score:1)
Mildly amusing (Score:2)