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Re: Facebook Home
#62Everyone in that video seems to be having fun. Must be good. The design of the production page is nice though. The video mast is kind of what I've been waiting for for a long time. It's nicely implemented.
The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).
> or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as
Just so you know, this is not a cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is not just a synonym for "high-quality animated gif". A cinemagraph isolates one moving part from an otherwise static picture (and the assumption is that at least some motion is frozen - ie, not everything that could be moving is moving).
It's kind of like spot-color[0], but for motion.
Lots of good examples: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
Re: Facebook Home
#63To echo a complaint that is common when designers show off prototypes/imagined-redesigns...what does all this look like when your friends aren't as attractive/good at photography? I'm talking about the Cover Feed function. In the life stage I am now, I'd say that my Facebook Phone would be showing random baby photos 80% of the time, food photos 10% of the time. I'm also curious how that feature interacts with what I'…
More significantly, how do ensure I don't flash someone's inappropriate party pictures at work?
Re: Facebook Home
#64Everyone in that video seems to be having fun. Must be good. The design of the production page is nice though. The video mast is kind of what I've been waiting for for a long time. It's nicely implemented.
The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).
For me it's a element, which kind of makes more sense.
Re: Facebook Home
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple's product page is pretty generic these days. This is very pretty indeed though, especially the text over the video.
Is a Dyson vacuum cleaner generic, because other companies have started making similar models?
The design has become generic, yes. That's what generic means: "pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific."
Re: Facebook Home
#66"From the moment you turn it on, you see a steady stream of friends’ posts and photos."
Sounds like a self-flagellation device for masochists.
"Upfront notifications and quick access to your essentials mean you’ll never miss a moment."
Except for most of what's important, which you will miss unless you put that phone down.
"And you can keep chatting with friends, even when you’re using other apps."
Please kill me.
On the page design: I'm not as impressed as many of the commenters here. It's nonresponsive and requires horizontal scrolling.
Re: Facebook Home
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edit and got it to load relatively fast (coming from reddit where uncompressed gifs run amok).
> or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as Just so you know, this is not a cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is not just a synonym for "high-quality animated gif". A cinemagraph isolates one moving part from an otherwise static picture (and the assumption is that at least some motion is frozen - ie, not everything that could be moving is moving). It's kind of like spot-color[0], but for motion. Lots of…
Facebook is calling it a cinemegraph (see the HTML snippet in sibling commment) as part of their comprehensive war to redefine every word in the English language to be something of theirs.
Re: Facebook Home
#68Pre-order link is broken http://www.att.com/facebookhome
how can they afford that to happen?
It matches the home page on http://facebook.com/home, which is also down.
Re: Facebook Home
#69Funny how the video contains only women... like if facebook was the only site most women would go on :)
Re: Facebook Home
#70Facebook is so obsessed about telling me what my friends do, when i meet them, whats there to talk about? I think we are getting to a point where the digital social networks are ruining the actual social networks; the actual social network is just diluted.
Just my opinion.