As an android user I'm glad I can finally contribute meaningful content such as this https://vine.co/v/b36jXQnxpQF
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Vine for Android
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Re: Vine for Android
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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.
There were a few companies that attempted to do this ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/after-its-12-seconds-of-fam... ) but Vine got it right:
* Timing: More people have camera phones / 3G/4G/LTE * Aping the existing Instagram structure for the news feed * Probably initially used AWS backend for cheap storage * Native App focus first and foremost * Immediate acquisition by Twitter
Re: Vine for Android
#73Is there a possibilty to make vines private for a personal travel diary? It would be really handy.
agreed. would love a tool like this. would use it to make something like this: http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day...
I've got three random followers the first day I setup a vine account, even though I had no vines uploaded yet. I really don't want every vine I make to be shared publicly. This definitely limits my usage of this app.