I just tried it and it's actually a pretty great user experience. Much nicer than Vine, IMO.
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#122Maybe this is me projecting, but I feel like it's way more difficult to create a good video than it is to create a good photograph. I see lots of great images on Instagram and a lot of terrible videos on Vine. I hope my Instagram feed doesn't fill up with terrible videos.
The videos I've seen so far are kind of an artsy fartsy super-8 b-roll look. Doesn't seem any worse than the photos. Of course it depends on who you follow. Not necessarily looking forward to seeing video from my family members who mainly post screengrabs of motivational slogans or their dogs.
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#123So, expectedly, we will hear a lot of criticism that Instagram is copying Vine. In some ways, it is - but with its own spin and one that I think will emphasize beauty in video, much like it has done with photos and whereas I see Vine personally as one that lets you share moments as they are or some kind of quirky videos. Technologically, the difference is arbitrary (filters vs. no filters) but, as the saying goes: th…
There are more shares from Vine on Twitter than Instagram. I'd say its use has skyrocketed.
IMHO, I think that is because no one uses the Vine app to consume vine content, so they must post to twitter to share their videos. However, with Instagram, I open up that app specifically to look at photos that people I follow in Instagram have shared.
My Instagram social network is largely independent of the other large ones (twitter, FB, G+) with only a slight overlap, so it definitely deserves its own consumption, and would also explain the reason that the vine shares are more prevalent on twitter than instagram shares.
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#124Sigh... 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 Et…
Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker News. I'm an engineer at Arista Networks, where I get to work on some really impressive "hardcode" technologies: ridiculously scalable protocols, very distributed systems, really interesting uptime/redundancy requirements, and much more.
However, let's not start idolizing the networking field so quickly. This in an industry with a lot of entrenched interests, which, like in all B2B businesses, leads to a lot of FUD being spread around and glacier-paced rates for adopting new technologies. There's plenty that I envy about the consumer app space.
In any case, if you guys are interested in learning more about some of the hard technical problems being tackled in the networking space, I'd be happy to do a couple of writeups exploring the non-consumer world of tech. (And, if that stuff tickles your fancy, we're hiring!)
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#125Maybe this is me projecting, but I feel like it's way more difficult to create a good video than it is to create a good photograph. I see lots of great images on Instagram and a lot of terrible videos on Vine. I hope my Instagram feed doesn't fill up with terrible videos.
It definitely is, but with any service the people you're following makes a huge difference.
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Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?
I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.
Color correction can't hurt either.
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#127Sigh... 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 Et…
Just another recycled, cloned feature from an existing application. Consumers simply don't care about "hardcore technology" - Ethernet switching? That's like telling a consumer that Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet - they'll look at you and say "Facebook is the Internet." I couldn't agree more with the "less app please" statement - but we live in a very skewed reality these days. Apps like Vine take off in weeks from p…
I actually like adding filters to my photos, not sure if that makes me dumb or a hipster but it kinda just makes them look more surreal at times.
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Just another recycled, cloned feature from an existing application. Consumers simply don't care about "hardcore technology" - Ethernet switching? That's like telling a consumer that Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet - they'll look at you and say "Facebook is the Internet." I couldn't agree more with the "less app please" statement - but we live in a very skewed reality these days. Apps like Vine take off in weeks from p…
I actually like adding filters to my photos, not sure if that makes me dumb or a hipster but it kinda just makes them look more surreal at times.
It doesn't make you dumb or a hipster or anything like that. It's simply how you like your photos - and there's nothing wrong with that.
As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. They utilize and encourage poor quality images, poor ratios, and poor choice in taste (cats and food pictures and people flexing in gyms).
But it DOES NOT matter - the consumer wants this, demands it, uses it, so it works. That's an entirely different problem than the photo/video quality issue.
If you look at a platform like 500px, you'll see immense quality - but again, doesn't matter, >90% of people are incapable of creating photos like that. So they don't some crapware to share their food. More power to them.
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It's only available on iPhone 4S/5… they're probably just using the iOS SDK!
This x10. Shouting out about how awesome your tech is when it's someone else's tech that you didn't exclusively-license is lame.
It's completely proprietary tech developed by a team of image processing specialists on the Instagram team.
It in no way uses the iOS SDK.
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#130Sigh... 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 Et…
Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker News. I'm an engineer at Arista Networks, where I get to work on some really impressive "hardcode" technologies: ridiculously scalable protocols, very distributed systems, really interesting uptime/redundancy requirements, and much more. However, let's not start…
Curious to know what you think about the Cumulus release - if I'm not mistaken, you guys are also 'just' Linux?