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Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by YousefED »

danso wrote: post #30
citricsquid wrote: post #8

This is seriously fantastic. I saw Vine yesterday and thought it was a cool concept but didn't try it, after watching this I've downloaded the app and shared it with a bunch of friends and they're now downloading the app too! Such a simple and brilliant idea, Vine should add this to their homepage. edit: I've now been watching this for 40 minutes... why are the banal acts of ordinary people so interesting?! Maybe it'…

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

I couldn't resist and registered the domain name.. Hope you don't mind :) Will put up a mashup there soon and Show HN!

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by vubuntu »

ampersandy wrote: post #119
vubuntu wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank god there is another sane person like me. I too find it difficult to make sense or enjoy just 6 second snippets. Conveying a sweet short targeted message for a specific someone with just a 6 second video itself is so hard, let alone be able to generate a 6 second content that is of meaning/relevance to a much broader audience. Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips i…

"Thank god there is another sane person like me." Check your ego, please. "I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context." "I can't see any useful purpose for 140 character blurbs in a social wide audience context."

Just because 140 char limit worked for a text media does not guarantee that very short length works for every media. What next, 5 second podcasts? Or should we call them 'shoutouts' rather??

Even with 140 char twitter, unless a very strong opinion by an important person is being conveyed succinctly, most of the (useful) twits exist to give a short opinion on a larger piece linked to by a shortened url. The rest are your standard "I brushed my teeth, I just got of my car etc..." stuff that I leave the usefulness of for YOU to judge.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by vubuntu »

damncabbage wrote: post #63
vubuntu wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank god there is another sane person like me. I too find it difficult to make sense or enjoy just 6 second snippets. Conveying a sweet short targeted message for a specific someone with just a 6 second video itself is so hard, let alone be able to generate a 6 second content that is of meaning/relevance to a much broader audience. Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips i…

Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context. As much as I dislike them, I also think they'll take off. I can see them as another Instagram-like "useless" thing that is none-the-less popular because it's quick, illustrative and requires little effort. Think an animated GIF-like snapshot of your day. (Bah humbug, etc.)

'Animated gif like snapshot' is certainly a more attractive option. But most of the funny animated gifs out there have some sort of 'continuation' or 'smooth transition' that for some reason is not coming thru from the Vine video snippets. May be the app (incorrectly) provides a feature that lets the users (jarringly) jump from scene to scene or may be more features/filters have to be added to coerce the users into creating a nice 'animated gif' like smoothly transitioning video. If its left to the talent of the normal day-to-day person, then a majority of the videos that will be uploaded will be jarring ones.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by YousefED »

YousefED wrote: post #121
danso wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

I couldn't resist and registered the domain name.. Hope you don't mind :) Will put up a mashup there soon and Show HN!

Here we go: http://www.vineroulette.com - it allows you to search for any topic, or 'go random'. It combines all latest Vines in a full-screen visualization.

Edit: Discussion @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124795

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by jpxxx »

nacs wrote: post #103
jpxxx wrote: post #102

I completely adored this! Furthermore, I can't come up with any reason why the Vine datatype won't be huge. It's Motion Tumblr... it's an alloy of video and anigif... it's silent... it auto-loops... it's extraordinarily boredom resistant.

Silent? Vine videos have audio unless I have misread your post.

They do, but in many playback contexts they're muted by default. I haven't quite figured out the rules.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by ampersandy »

vubuntu wrote: post #123
ampersandy wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Thank god there is another sane person like me." Check your ego, please. "I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context." "I can't see any useful purpose for 140 character blurbs in a social wide audience context."

Just because 140 char limit worked for a text media does not guarantee that very short length works for every media. What next, 5 second podcasts? Or should we call them 'shoutouts' rather?? Even with 140 char twitter, unless a very strong opinion by an important person is being conveyed succinctly, most of the (useful) twits exist to give a short opinion on a larger piece linked to by a shortened url. The rest are y…

My point is that your personal opinion, as highly as you might think of it, is actually irrelevant in determining how successful a service will or will not be. You can pander all you want about how Twitter is useless except as a link-sharing service, but the reality of the situation is far different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution

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