I wanted to have a look if any of my friends had this and apparently it can't be installed in the UK. Out of interest has anybody got this outside the US yet?
Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also called the "toothbrush rule". Larry wouldn't allow a product that you didn't use twice a day to be developed at Google.
I've never heard this before. I like this a lot. Kinda like the Bezos "pizza rule".
...because it has the word "rule" in it? That's about the only similarity between those two concepts.
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#93Not available via Play Store in Canada :( not even for the guy who gives new things a chance.
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#94I admire the earnestness and innocence that makes a serious discussion of this possible. I, unfortunately, do not share those qualities. Trusting Facebook to provide "ephemeral messaging" is like trusting a dog to keep a roast beef sandwich safe.
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#95This app brings to mind an excerpt for Larry Page - The untold Story: ... Up front, an executive pitched a new product that helped users find the right offline store to do their shopping. The executive was well into his pitch when, suddenly, Page interrupted him. “No,” Page said emphatically. “We don’t do this.” The room grew quiet. “We build products that leverage technology to solve huge problems for hundreds of mi…
This is a typical example of survivor bias. You are overly emphasizing successful people's view as generalized truth. The fact is, these are the same leaders who also missed out boat on entire social revolution. They are not often not right but it hurts them lot less because they have already amassed huge momentum.
For hackers, makers, creators, hobbyists - I don't think you should put any artificial restrictions on what you should work on. If you think it's the most interesting thing you could be doing right now, may be its useful to you and may-may-be to your friends - go do it. Don't think about if it has good monetization or if it would be used X times a day or it would put you in the TechCrunch etc.
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#96I wanted to have a look if any of my friends had this and apparently it can't be installed in the UK. Out of interest has anybody got this outside the US yet?
Not available in Canada.
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#97If you don't have the attention span to sit through the montage, here's the money shot: http://blog.sling.me (third paragraph down):
> To get started on Slingshot, shoot a photo or video. It can be what you’re up to, who you’re with or a quick selfie. Add some text and color, then sling it to a bunch of friends. Here’s the deal: friends won’t be able to see your shot until they sling something back to you. They can then reply with a reaction—or simply swipe your shot away.
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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…
I like this analogy. Silicon valley generates random mutations of existing ideas, without thought or direction, and occasionally lands, by pure chance, on something slightly better, which survives at the expense of other inferior mutations. I guess that maybe the developers working on "a new way to share photos and video" kid themselves that they're making something different; something that really is revolutionary.…
> So I do kind of have to ask: is making random tweaks to the genome of the photo sharing application in the hope they'll be successful really the best use of the talents of all those developers?
These developers CHOOSE to work at Facebook. If they don't feel as though re-inventing the slide show would be the best use of their time, there are thousands of companies which do cooler stuff that would GLADLY have them.
Maybe the people who work for Facebook aren't as smart as you think they are. Actually, what's far more likely is that MAYBE JUST MAYBE not every one of the tens of thousands of people working at Facebook is a genius...
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#99I see the "catch" as a never-ending chain, and the conversations will end quite awkwardly.
That's a good point. You can't say "ok, see you there" or finish your conversation in any normal way without the other person sending yet another picture. One person will always end up with an unseen picture.
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I like this analogy. Silicon valley generates random mutations of existing ideas, without thought or direction, and occasionally lands, by pure chance, on something slightly better, which survives at the expense of other inferior mutations. I guess that maybe the developers working on "a new way to share photos and video" kid themselves that they're making something different; something that really is revolutionary.…
> So I do kind of have to ask: is making random tweaks to the genome of the photo sharing application in the hope they'll be successful really the best use of the talents of all those developers? These developers CHOOSE to work at Facebook. If they don't feel as though re-inventing the slide show would be the best use of their time, there are thousands of companies which do cooler stuff that would GLADLY have them. M…
Tens of thousands?