Introducing Paper • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by Touche » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:21 PM UTC

blueblob wrote: post #56

Touche wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5 letter common words can be used freely by anyone, in my opinion. If you want your brand to be distinctive and searchable, pick a distinctive and searchable name. There was an article a few weeks ago about an internal struggle going on inside Facebook about what their product should be. Some executives are worried that it's primarily shallow (in their minds) content. They want to get rid of the memes and have people…

Are you making a comment about "candy?"

Don't know what that means, so no.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by mattlutze » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:22 PM UTC

kyro wrote: post #20

I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform. What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvio…

It looks like a different interface on the concept that Flipboard is built around, using Facebook content instead of select news sources.

It's a neat interface, and I hope it's light enough on the hardware that it'll be as fluid as in the video (on my iPhone 4 and One S the standard Facebook app has become slow and laggy).

But, it looks like an interface that distances the user from the content, enforcing a more consumption-focused model of interaction than producer, which seems a little antithetical.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by kyro » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:22 PM UTC

zyb09 wrote: post #48

Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.

That's literally the entire point of this type of visual marketing: to help you envision a fantasy world that's attainable with a particular product.

Apple, BMW, Chanel, etc, all do it.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by khc » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:24 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #40

Is this a native app or a web app running in a browser? I watched the video (at work, so without sound) and I can't tell. If its browser based then I'm extremely impressed.

At the end it says you can get it on Apple app store.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by narfz » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:25 PM UTC

it's nice to see mike matas' again. i really felt in love with his UI skills

(http://mikematas.com)

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by teamonkey » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:27 PM UTC

RyanZAG wrote: post #19

I'm impressed by how much CPU this website is able to use. It pegged all 8 cores at 100% while I had the website open on firefox/win7

On a 4S you can literally see the battery meter run down before your eyes.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:27 PM UTC

zyb09 wrote: post #48

Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.

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Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by 0x0 » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:27 PM UTC

mattlutze wrote: post #62

kyro wrote: post #20

I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform. What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvio…

It looks like a different interface on the concept that Flipboard is built around, using Facebook content instead of select news sources. It's a neat interface, and I hope it's light enough on the hardware that it'll be as fluid as in the video (on my iPhone 4 and One S the standard Facebook app has become slow and laggy). But, it looks like an interface that distances the user from the content, enforcing a more cons…

This looks like a direct clone of Flipboard! Flipboard supports fetching from your personal facebook feed, and this new facebook thing seems to support fetching from various public "interests" feeds too.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by meshko » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

I watched the video. I don't understand what paper is. Actually, the only reason I watched it was because I somehow confused myself into thinking this was Amazon. When I was done with the video, I finally realized this is Facebook and it all made sense. I still don't know what "paper" is of course. Now I need my coffee.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by jawns » Thu, Jan 30, 2014, 1:32 PM UTC

sambeau wrote: post #5

I wonder what 53 will make of Facebook's choice of App name? http://www.fiftythree.com/paper

At first, I thought Facebook had acquired 53's Paper and revamped it for its own purposes. So yeah, definitely confusing. I would think that "Paper" is too generic a word for 53 to claim exclusive use of it, but look at the Apple vs. Apple dispute.