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Re: Introducing Paper

#172

Post by k-mcgrady »

According to The Verge not only is this iPhone only - it's US ONLY! Seriously a news reader app limited by location. Can anyone come up with a half sane reason they are doing that?

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by sp332 »

vkb wrote: post #164

I've been blogging for over five years. I'm also an avid Facebook user in that I try to post statuses that are interesting and relevant to my audience instead of just the usual "I ate a grilled cheese for lunch and now I feel feelings about it". I also, as of recently, ironically own a typewriter and I am working on a novel. Basically, I love creating content. Theoretically, I am the target market for this product be…

Lots of people put ultrasound pics of their future kids on Facebook. It's not even that weird, considering the emotional intensity that picture must have for the poster.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by vkb »

sp332 wrote: post #173
vkb wrote: post #164

I've been blogging for over five years. I'm also an avid Facebook user in that I try to post statuses that are interesting and relevant to my audience instead of just the usual "I ate a grilled cheese for lunch and now I feel feelings about it". I also, as of recently, ironically own a typewriter and I am working on a novel. Basically, I love creating content. Theoretically, I am the target market for this product be…

Lots of people put ultrasound pics of their future kids on Facebook. It's not even that weird, considering the emotional intensity that picture must have for the poster.

I agree that lots of people do it, and they do it to foster an emotional reaction, and that sharing ultrasounds with people close to you is a very positive experience.

But I feel uneasy that we're encouraging this kind of privacy invasion from the very beginning, that leads to things like this[1]. The piece is, of course, reductio ad absurdum, but not completely out of the realm of the ordinary.

[1] http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mommy-bloggers-lament

Re: Introducing Paper

#175

Post by joosters »

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.

Also, why do these videos always use a 'shakycam' effect? It's clearly a cinematographic choice, they can afford a camera stand or a steadycam. Do they really feel the need to give the impression that each scene was shot on a handheld camera by some stalker hiding in the room?

Re: Introducing Paper

#176

Post by deckar01 »

blowski wrote: post #24
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

Doesn't work at all without JavaScript - just a black screen. And I don't have a Facebook account, so couldn't look at the mobile version.

The mobile version is unusable. The sideways scroll nav gets stuck between slides. The videos are corrupted or over compressed. The transitions lag and are so janky they only get about 3 frames rendered in time. The page doesn't even contain very much useful information about what Paper does.

Re: Introducing Paper

#177

Post by notthetup »

joeblau wrote: post #122
kyriakos wrote: post #10

I hope this runs well on android.. considering how bad their android app

It's alternating. Android users got Facebook Home last year, this year iPhone users get Facebook Paper. I think that's fair.

Not all Android phones got Facebook Home. I think like only 2/3 models.

Re: Introducing Paper

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Post by acdha »

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

This is why WebM failed: on my (old) 2010 MacBook Air Firefox uses 100% CPU on two cores and it's still barely hitting 1fps with stuttering audio. Safari uses the native hardware-accelerated H.264 so it plays back perfectly at 15% of one core. Chrome's sandbox implementation appears to be less efficient so it's 80% but again, still perfect.

The vp8 developers clearly made some attempts at optimization – profilers show a lot of time being spent in an SSE3-optimized decode path – but that's a long, slow game trying to catch up with years of significant software and, later, hardware optimization.

Re: Introducing Paper

#179

Post by JonnieCache »

slig wrote: post #170
JonnieCache wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Show me why this app is useful and why I need it Advertising hasn't worked that way in almost a hundred years. It's simply vastly less effective than selling an identity. The real secret is, it works even if you hate hipsters. In fact, they know you hate hipsters, and that's why they're in the ad. http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/advertisings_collater...

That was an interesting read, thanks. Do you know where else I can read about how ads works?

Well, TLP has a number of posts on the subject. Beware that he drinks a lot of rum though, and some of his posts are more lucid than others. These are good:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/11/luxury_branding_the_f...

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/real_men_want_to_drin...

Otherwise there's this documentary, with a more historical (and less rum-soaked) take on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

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