Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by mseebach » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

will_brown wrote: post #69

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

Just like I've never been on Instagram, I have no urge to join this site, but your criticism is still misguided.

Placing a constraint on a creative endeavour is a old and time-tested way of tickling creativity. Pre Twitter, people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose. Sure, it's a strained at time, but there's little denying that Twitter has taught a lot of us a lot about getting to the point, quickly.

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

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Post by z-factor » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 5:38 PM UTC

mseebach wrote: post #71

will_brown wrote: post #69

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

Just like I've never been on Instagram, I have no urge to join this site, but your criticism is still misguided. Placing a constraint on a creative endeavour is a old and time-tested way of tickling creativity. Pre Twitter, people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose. Sure, it's a strained at time, but there's little denying that Twitter has taught a…

> people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose

Still can't. (Oh, the irony!)

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

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Post by eflowers » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

Having to constantly remind yourself that, more or less, "this is happening right now" is a surreal experience. It feels like the cheesy curated montage at the beginning of a smarmy independent film - but it's not. It's just random, unfiltered views into things people are filming all over the world.

I had no idea how many of us could connect over our love of filming coffee preparation, or cats, or traffic, or terrible attempts at stop motion. Hey look another magic trick!

Seriously though. Fascinating and, for now, quite engaging. I vote against re-wind or links to previous clips though. Keep it ephemeral and impermanent. Like real life - a moment is here, then it is gone.

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

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Post by secure » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

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?

Got a similar problem: With Chrome’s built-in click-to-play, I cannot click.

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

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Post by jyothi » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

Supporting a retweet or reply would be fantastic. Gives some kind of virality and sense of community for the vine yard :)

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

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Post by mjn » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

will_brown wrote: post #69

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

Although technologically these are videos with a time limit, in terms of how people are using them, I think they're closer to the aesthetic of animated GIFs. If you wanted to recreate what people are doing with animated GIFs (short, looping videos), but with smoother playback, Vine isn't a bad approximation. I forget where I saw it, but someone called it "gifboom for adults" [1].

[1] http://gifboom.com/, a mobile app for taking short videos as animated GIFs, popular among Tumblr users

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

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Post by personlurking » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

I'm wondering if there will ever be a way to categorize it by country or subject (/wtf, /aww). Also suppose some people will do vines stringed together where they'll tell a story via several vines. Surely some art will come of this.

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

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Post by ahoyhere » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 6:17 PM UTC

Such fun to watch these lil videos go by. I love seeing people doing creative stuff with it —- so many fun stop motion dealies, like this one: http://vine.co/v/b5lTOtK3ELU

Before this, my basic reaction to vine was: "Oh great, another social network." But… now I can see why it's exciting.

The potential here for the cross-section of tiny slices o' life reminds me of the potential that amazed me about Twitter, which led to me designing Twistori:

http://twistori.com

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

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Post by pdog » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

will_brown wrote: post #69

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

> Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support.

Imposing arbitrary contraints is very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form, and other creative endeavors[1]. So even if that's all they do, it could be worthwhile.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing

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

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Post by darkchasma » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

will_brown wrote: post #69

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

Yea, well, I really liked this, and I think it's something that I may go back to as a voyeristic peek into the lives of people I will never meet. It feeds these 6 second videos into my brain without me thinking or installing the google earth plugin. I have no interest in seeing 5 minutes of crappy video of someone's boring life, but a 6 second peek is pretty engaging.