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An entire article about an application without a single screenshot of said application. Ok.
I really fucking hate this trend of requiring that an image be next to the opening paragraph of an article. It's fucking asinine.
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Wasn't Meerkat done in by the fact that Twitter launched Periscope around the same time? Twitter cut Meerkat's access to the API at SXSW (mid March), and published Periscope to the iOS App Store in late March. On top of this, I've noticed some celebrities I follow on Twitter using Periscope and advertising it to their feeds, which I wouldn't be surprised to find out is fueled by some form of payment from Twitter. I c…
Why does anyone follow celebrities on Twitter? Does it add any value to your life?
The idea that command-line applications could have some sort of Renaissance on devices which do not have a keyboard seems completely insane to me.
Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…
Wasn't Meerkat done in by the fact that Twitter launched Periscope around the same time? Twitter cut Meerkat's access to the API at SXSW (mid March), and published Periscope to the iOS App Store in late March. On top of this, I've noticed some celebrities I follow on Twitter using Periscope and advertising it to their feeds, which I wouldn't be surprised to find out is fueled by some form of payment from Twitter. I c…
The idea that command-line applications could have some sort of Renaissance on devices which do not have a keyboard seems completely insane to me.
There is also the ability to tie commands/sub-commands to voice recognition as mentioned above.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasn't Meerkat done in by the fact that Twitter launched Periscope around the same time? Twitter cut Meerkat's access to the API at SXSW (mid March), and published Periscope to the iOS App Store in late March. On top of this, I've noticed some celebrities I follow on Twitter using Periscope and advertising it to their feeds, which I wouldn't be surprised to find out is fueled by some form of payment from Twitter. I c…
Why does anyone follow celebrities on Twitter? Does it add any value to your life?
Just because you and I don't get any value out of it doesn't mean that nobody else can.
Social to me today is very scary and over commercialized. It feels like more people are trying to convince everyone else to buy something or watch them eventually parade products in their posts than being social. Great for them, but I'm not really using social media for that. I post my life, but posting my life has serious implications if made public. "Oh hey I'm traveling" could get my home broken in to. OR I say something as a joke, but just like with texting, gets misread and now I'm an asshole to people who don't know me. Worse, all this can happen years after with little to no warning.
The chilling effect on sharing and keeping up with your friends who are hard to keep up with, the supposed point of social media, is enormous.
I like it. I love the magic words, I think they're cute and everyone thinks that is the killer feature of the app, but I don't think it is.
I think the killer features are:
* The snapchat like single-button camera and easy photo sharing (personally, the only reason I use snapchat is the camera and save the photos)
* The individual snapchat-story-like feeds you post to (also nice, love they go away)
* The lack of a central feed or RTs or easy way to get viral that can happen in places like twitter.
Obviously, I'm not going to be sharing ssh private keys or passwords over it, but for the most part it's secure against the casual online lurker. It's a great mix of the point of snapchat with the power of slack and twitter. I can come up with so many more ways I love the idea, but I can tell I'm already not doing it justice so I'll stop, but I think this is something worth looking at if nothing else as a launching point for someone else. I'm not saying it'll be the next snapchat/facebook/instagram/twitter, and I'm comfortable knowing its more gonna be like Ello and Merkat, but I like the possibilities with it for doing what I always imagined social media could and should be after seeing the exodus of quality content from friends being replaced with fake updates and perfectly posed photos.
Anything that inspires spontaneity like this, snapchat, or beme is in my opinion what social media needs to deliver for me to use it and feel comfortable sharing.
Death of Peach: An eerie echo of Meerkat’s collapse [0] > A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the U.S. iPhone downloads chart on Saturday, and started declining on Sunday, slipping to No. 129 by Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The tepid peak performance and an early decline are vastly significant considering the heavy tech media coverage surrounding the app. > Because…
If you're gonna read stuff like that, understand that it probably makes you dumber. At least, posting it makes you look dumber. Calling something a "turkey" after a day is as dumb as calling it an "x killer". Things like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, etc take years to become successful.