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Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by vubuntu »

damncabbage wrote: post #26

YouTube for the Attention-Deficit Generation? I unfortunately find watching these jumpy snippets jarring. I can see the appeal for getting tiny slices of someone's day, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy it.

Thank god there is another sane person like me. I too find it difficult to make sense or enjoy just 6 second snippets. Conveying a sweet short targeted message for a specific someone with just a 6 second video itself is so hard, let alone be able to generate a 6 second content that is of meaning/relevance to a much broader audience. Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by danso »

monsterix wrote: post #33
danso wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

One up. I was thinking the same name too! Isn't there a potential challenge for vinepeek? How would you prevent pervs streaming penises and see-me-jerk-off clips? Especially, when this thing grows in volume.

Actually, this would be a fairly solvable problem: only show Vines from users with 400+ or more followers and older than a year (you may have to refine this metric to also examine the validness of their followers' accounts). Presumably, people with Twitter followings to care about won't just flash their junk...though maybe once in while, you'll get an Anthony Weiner.

In fact, you could probably get a certain class of videos by only showing Vines in which the tweets are directed at people, to catch the folks who forgot that @-mentions != DM (ala Anthony Weiner)

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by abcd_f »

spindritf wrote: post #46
huhtenberg wrote: post #43

There appears to be no way to enable the Flash applet when viewing the site with FlashBlock turned on. Is it under some sort of transparent overlay that doesn't pass the right clicks to the applet container?

Instead of using flashblock, turn Firefox's native click-to-play in about:config by setting plugins.click_to_play to true. EDIT: then you don't have to click the item. You can click the icon in the address bar and enable flash for that site.

Exact same problem, can't click it.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by talklittle »

danso wrote: post #30
citricsquid wrote: post #8

This is seriously fantastic. I saw Vine yesterday and thought it was a cool concept but didn't try it, after watching this I've downloaded the app and shared it with a bunch of friends and they're now downloading the app too! Such a simple and brilliant idea, Vine should add this to their homepage. edit: I've now been watching this for 40 minutes... why are the banal acts of ordinary people so interesting?! Maybe it'…

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

Considering the content of chatroulette, I think it's a wise decision not to use a name that conjures up those images.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by jalada »

monsterix wrote: post #33
danso wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this

One up. I was thinking the same name too! Isn't there a potential challenge for vinepeek? How would you prevent pervs streaming penises and see-me-jerk-off clips? Especially, when this thing grows in volume.

Defer the problem to Vine, surely?

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by waterlesscloud »

hnriot wrote: post #42
thesorrow wrote: post #19

Looks like youtube finally have something to worry about...

That's an insane thing to say! Vine will be forgotten in 2 months.

Just like a 140 character messaging system, it has no future.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by speik »

This is beautiful. It fulfills the promise of worldwide webcams (being able to easily peer into different parts of the world) with better quality, better interface, and mobile.

I tend to get overly moony about things like this, but I think this is one of the things that makes the Internet really great. It's a window to the world, the world seen by people not sitting at their computers but walking, talking, participating.

I really really like this, great job.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by danso »

andreipop wrote: post #49

I find the "shift" from traditional "scripted" TV to more home made videos vert interesting. I must say that the appeal escapes me. I don't watch a lot of TV, but personally when I do I do it because it's a way to either: 1. escape 2. become informed I can't imagine turning this on while I have breakfast, or "for fun" on a bus commute. I see the appeal in sharing snippets of my live in video format with people that m…

I think maybe you just need to bring a different perspective/expectation to it? I mean, I couldn't have imagined three years ago that I would choose to spend time browsing 140-character missives...why do that when I can read blog posts? And before that, why read blog posts when there are newspaper and magazine articles (online and off)?

Maybe the medium, which is just a couple days old, has rough content now, but its format and contraints will likely create a new field of creativity. I personally don't like watching video streams because they're...boring. With Vine, and vinepeek, the banality only last six seconds. And some people are already mindful of the creative process they can apply (I saw a pretty cool taxi cruising down Tokyo in the night, as interesting as any movie scene).

But frankly, I like the banality. Sure, I see banality through my own eyes every day...but seeing "normal" as it exists for a Midwest mom getting ready to go shopping, a 20-yr-old dude wrapping up a joint, a 50-year-old guy watching Saturday morning cartoons....I dunno, this is just a few steps from being a very cool (if pretentious) modern art presentation.

As a photographer, I'll admit, I've never understood the appeal of video snippets (outside of those that show earthsattering news events, such as the snippets from the Arab Spring) over what can be conveyed in a split-second, defined image. But for the first time, I'm kind of seeing how much more potential expressiveness there is in six seconds of "moving" pictures.

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