I am guessing this is something kids will use to share nude pics... wish I was a kid now...
Why would you want to do that via the network your parents hang out on.
Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
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#143There was an app called Rando (rando.ustwo.se/ or techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/rip-rando/) that did the same thing and became hugely popular in a few weeks only, but the creators decided to take it down. I guess Facebook just saw the opportunity and stepped in.
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#144We live in the age of wonders. The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact. And at Facebook, a company which can, if it chooses, pick from among the brightest engineering minds and focus their efforts on any problem it chooses, the power to concentrate years of programming knowledge on the capabilities afforded to us by this astonishing bounty of personal…
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#145This underscores what appears to be an interesting strategic move by Facebook: build an ecosystem of applications, which in turn encourages people to use their other products. In turn, this provides continued competition against Twitter, Tumblr, etc. The interesting thing about this app is that it's an experiment: viral success of social applications appears to be a hit or miss sort of thing, so why not throw many th…
The "barrier to entry" argument would be true if Slingshot was first . Slingshot was created as an attack on Snapchat. And that's after Facebook's previous attempt to attack Snapchat, Poke, failed miserably.
I think there is a good reason for these failure. Personally I haven't installed any of these apps, deliberately because Facebook is behind them. I don't trust Facebook, period. They fall into the same box as Microsoft called "Do not trust. Do not re-open".
For me, Facebook's historical lax attitude to users' privacy has put them permanently in my personal dog house.
Mark Zuckerberg's mum should have introduced him to Aesop's Fables. These would have been the ones that Mark should have heeded:
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheDogandtheHa...
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheEagleandthe...
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheHorseHunter...
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&MercuryandtheW...
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheShepherdsBo...
- http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?sel&TheWolfinSheep...
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#146Seems like they're trying to create more interaction and it sounds like it would be fun...for the first couple of times. Who really wants to go out of their way to make a new video or photo to see something? We've all become accustomed to the instant gratification that the internet offers, why would we suddenly opt in for a slower experience? Or it will turn into people sharing the same generic useless video / pictur…
The audience for this app are already using Snapchat, and Slingshot offers no value above what Snapchat already offers - I don't see anyone switching.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
Penicillin.
I think that was more of a discovery than an invention
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#148I'm not sure I understand the allure of this; perhaps I'm missing something. So I have to send a video/photo in response to someone who sent me one, in order to see what they sent? It seems like there would be a massive disparity in interesting activities between two parties at any given time to make this concept work. If one of my buddies is having a riot at Coachella and sends me a crazy festival pic for instance,…
It sounds like "fun" to me. I think that's something that Snapchat was able to capture very well, and it looks like Slingshot is looking to actually improve on. It's just plain fun to see what your friends are all up to, at least to me. It leads to discussions and other communication (texting "Wish we had some coffee here, it would probably mellow out this Coachella riot" for instance).
As was mentioned earlier, it's a "show yours and I'll show you mine" kind of thing, but not in the stereotypical sexual sense. It feels like it has the potential to foster community, admittedly in a somewhat odd way, by coercing people to share experiences.
I do worry about the dilution of content through the "Send to all" feature, but I think that requiring someone to send something back directly to you alleviates that quite a bit.
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#149We live in the age of wonders. The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact. And at Facebook, a company which can, if it chooses, pick from among the brightest engineering minds and focus their efforts on any problem it chooses, the power to concentrate years of programming knowledge on the capabilities afforded to us by this astonishing bounty of personal…
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
Nature is brutal and peoples' complaints over the app are a muted form of natural selection.
Also, did ed209 honestly claim artists churn out iterations of what came before, just like facebook churning out cloneware?
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you know there are over 150 varieties of Finches? Each slightly different, maybe color difference or a larger beak or bigger wingspan. They came about by iterating on the Finches that came before. In fact, that's how most advancements come about in nature, poetry, art, and yes, even technology. We take what came before an iterate on it. I'm trying to think of a giant leap that came out of nowhere, but I can't. Ph…
Nature is brutal and peoples' complaints over the app are a muted form of natural selection. Also, did ed209 honestly claim artists churn out iterations of what came before, just like facebook churning out cloneware?
Sure. "Good artists borrow, great artists steal."