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Vine for Android

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Re: Vine for Android

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Post by pjjw »

jcfrei wrote: post #21
JoeCortopassi wrote: post #18

Vine seems awesome, but it has a fundamental issue that I just can't get past: I can't easily add my friends from Facebook. Now that isn't Vine's (or Twitter's) fault, it's due to Facebook's new policies[1], a policy that was nearly too late and required them to buy out Instagram. I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it…

what's also really annoying, is that there's no way to search just by username; in case you dont want connect via fb or twitter at all.

there is. it's search by username. unless you're talking about android, where the answer is "real soon now!"

Re: Vine for Android

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Post by farnsworth »

hkmurakami wrote: post #26
jelled wrote: post #16

As an android user I'm glad I can finally contribute meaningful content such as this https://vine.co/v/b36jXQnxpQF

I had thought that Vine was something akin to Google Hangouts until now. So now I know instead that it is a simple to use, high quality animated gif generator... Which I guess isn't such a bad thing. It certainly has entertainment value (I'm not really of the camp that believes that every company has to make world-changing products)

I wouldn't think of it that way, more like Twitter for video sharing. By adding an arbitrary limit to what you can share - 140 characters for Twitter, 6.5s for Vine - and removing all friction between making the thing and sharing it, it removes the pressure of feeling like you need to make something good or polished, and you're more likely to share.

Re: Vine for Android

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Post by farnsworth »

sgarman wrote: post #15

Really surprised they are getting away with 4.0 and later. That would be like a dream come true for me to make an app that only supports those versions.

Pre-4.0 is down to about a 1/3 these days (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) but it's also probably the 1/3 least likely to use Vine.

Re: Vine for Android

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Post by craftkiller »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #36

Can someone explain what the use case of vine is? Why would I want to use it?

Looks to me like they're replacing GIFs. Short clips, muted by default. If they succeed this will be a welcome change for the internet because video compression has advanced significantly since the days of GIFs.

Re: Vine for Android

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Post by jere »

I've been waiting for this. Now, only if a single one of the android phones had a decent camera, I'd be in business.

Re: Vine for Android

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Post by Smudge »

craftkiller wrote: post #37
bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #36

Can someone explain what the use case of vine is? Why would I want to use it?

Looks to me like they're replacing GIFs. Short clips, muted by default. If they succeed this will be a welcome change for the internet because video compression has advanced significantly since the days of GIFs.

It's more of a tweet-like approach to posting videos. The way I see most of my friends using the service is as a companion to Instagram, when they want to express a moment in a series of small video clips instead of in a single photo. I suppose you could call that "replacing GIFs" but it's more like YouTube than it is like Geocities.
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