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Re: Video on Instagram

#21
I wonder how Vine will fight back. Will they now also include pictures ? ;)

Anyways, I feel I'm being played by all the media attention that this got. Since when an app update gets all this attention ? Are we getting so superficial that this stuff really gets so many spotlights ?

It's not even a new app or anything disruptive, it's just Vine on Instagram with edition mode.

Re: Video on Instagram

#22
I'm not crazy about this. Will videos just automatically appear in my feed- and start playing? If they play with the volume up that's going to get irritating (and bandwidth heavy).

My reaction in general is the same as the tagging feature- I'd prefer it didn't have it, as I like Instagram as a service for almost taking abstract photos (landscapes, patterns) than of me and my friends on nights out. But I also realise that it is inevitable, what with them being owned by Facebook.

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#24
I'm curious about how this works in their existing API. Does it get dumped into the list of photos for an account, or is there a separate videos API coming?

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#25
After watching a few Instagram-filmed videos on the web, videos on Instagram are much lower quality than those taken with Vine, likely to compensate for the 2.5x-increased length.

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#26
Sigh...

Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm.

Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet.

Bring on the hardcore technology like better Ethernet Switching, Less Apps please.

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#28

I swear every single product launch or redesign announcement these days uses the word beautiful.

Today we are here to announce our new feature, it's called "Beautiful". Beautiful is the most...crap guys we didn't think through the naming of this feature very well.

Re: Video on Instagram

#29

I wonder how Vine will fight back. Will they now also include pictures ? ;) Anyways, I feel I'm being played by all the media attention that this got. Since when an app update gets all this attention ? Are we getting so superficial that this stuff really gets so many spotlights ? It's not even a new app or anything disruptive, it's just Vine on Instagram with edition mode.

Well the 'Cinema' feature is something brand new that Vine doesn't have -- stabilizing videos like this is mind boggling to me at least and should be interesting to see how it plays out.

Re: Video on Instagram

#30
If they were able to achieve better performance than Vine on Android (said another way: if it's usable), then they could make headway in the Android market share. I hope that's the case, because I eventually uninstalled Vine on my Galaxy Nexus because performance was inconsistent... and usually terrible.
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