Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
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Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#2Interesting concept...which got me thinking, are there any Adult sites that use this method of obscuring the image/video until you pay?
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#3What I want to understand is why this is such a compelling concept that I'd want to blog using it (or read a blog on it) vs all the other options out there. I'm just not seeing the allure.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#4What I want to understand is why this is such a compelling concept that I'd want to blog using it (or read a blog on it) vs all the other options out there. I'm just not seeing the allure.
To me it seems more like a feature rather than a platform. Can't see why this couldn't be a plugin/service for Wordpress.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#5I would be more distracted if I was watching an actual video of the author as they were typing. I could see still images being cool (for each piece of content) but I would hate if I had to sway with the author just to view his words.
Summary: Fair at best concept bc it's not a far stretch from what is out there. Not cool bc I don't want to see the author "in real time". Maybe something where it would allow me to read the authors' post as he is writing it, but not their video.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#6I guess I just don't get it. It's mostly just going to be a bunch of people sitting with a vacant look on their face, right? I want to see a blurred version this because??
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#7I really like this idea and especially like the idea of making it more of a "live event"
At a recent hackathon I was documenting how I was feeling and rough progress reports on the hack but that's just text with a time stamp. If Tiny could use my webcam to record what i'm doing and then create a cinemagraph-like loop of myself it would create much more of an acceptable reading for family and friends than just a markdown file.
Where I really see Tiny shining is the mobile aspect though. Tiny seems like it will be a vine competitor in the future where you can access posts and see a quick video in the background of a concert or travelling through some landscape. While reading you'd see the blurred movie in the background and you could click out of focus of the post the movie would come in focus.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#8I wish more people would share ideas like this. Rose said he isn't building this as a product any time soon, rather that he had a new idea about what a blog is/could be and just shared that idea with the world. In doing so, he's starting a valuable conversation and challenging the status quo.
I'm not a fan of the actual prototype, but the idea or new philosophy about blogging that Rose is introducing here is absolutely thrilling.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#9Wouldn't any motion distract the user from focusing on the content? I mean this would be interesting for a twitter blog, but if you're adding any material with any substance I would find it distracting. The static image aspect is better in my opinion.
Re: Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
#10Bandwidth is still a precious resource. It would take a lot of storage, processing, transmission, and energy to make a live video happen in the background of a blog entry.
The premise of an asynchronous portal is interesting, though.