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Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram

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Post by maxerickson »

danso wrote: post #14
maxerickson wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to develop a social norm that sharing something is not necessarily permission to publicize it. There's lots of contexts where it is probably fine, but I think there are also quite some contexts where it isn't so fine. I'm not trying to get up on a high horse and preach, it's just kind of gross to completely change the sort of attention that is being directed at something that someone shared. I know that some…

I agree that social norms need to become better (i.e., people need to be better and more decent), but you have to consider why publicizing this info (not in this particular case, but for any given person and any given content) is not considered illegal in the United States, currently: such a law would almost certainly be used to squash freedom of expression. This has been the case long before Instagram and the Intern…

Sure.

I suppose part of the problem is that we talk about privacy, when really it's publicity that has changed. The situation where basically every individual can create recordings and publish them to the entire world is actually somewhat novel. We reach for analogies about privacy, but really we need to think about what sort of rights people have to their own publicity.

Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram

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Post by spike021 »

wlindner wrote: post #13
pixelcort wrote: post #9

In Tokyo it's just pictures of food. I wonder if there was a way to detect pictures of food automatically so it could be filtered out.

I know what you mean, it sounds like you want to search or explore by categories. So, when you want to see landmarks, you only see those, but if you wanted to see food, you could filter by that as well. Thanks for the feedback. Also, these results will be different at different times of day.

Not sure exactly how your app works but maybe you can use the API to check for tags on each photo you load. If any tag contains some word that would relate to food, then just don't load/display it.

Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram

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Post by wlindner »

spike021 wrote: post #24
wlindner wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know what you mean, it sounds like you want to search or explore by categories. So, when you want to see landmarks, you only see those, but if you wanted to see food, you could filter by that as well. Thanks for the feedback. Also, these results will be different at different times of day.

Not sure exactly how your app works but maybe you can use the API to check for tags on each photo you load. If any tag contains some word that would relate to food, then just don't load/display it.

I think it's more about finding out what type of location it is: restaurant, bar, club, park, concert venue, whatever. Then filter by that. Rather than the individual photos.

But I like the idea of a "no food pics" option :) Instagram is infamous for stuff like that.

Re: Show HN: Spotsy – iPhone app to discover the world through Instagram

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Post by wlindner »

limsup wrote: post #25

the flip book animation/interaction is top notch. good job!

Thanks! My good friend @alexsailer did a killer job on designing the app and interactions. I modified this example to create the effect: http://corgitoergosum.net/2013/03/16/from-js-to-uicollection...
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