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Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough t

by unalone 14y ago

Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough to create a stream of new content for users. Instagram caught on in part because taking a photo is so easy. None of the composition involved in writing even a 140-character tweet: you just hold up the camera and snap. (Yes, photography involves composition, but pretty filters aid even the worst photographers there.) Do you have any idea of how you'll encourage enough content to create a meaningful feed?

potomak 14y ago
I have one, it's called "forking" and it'll be ready soon.
- unalone 14y ago
  Forking's always fun. When I interned at Aviary the forked content was sometimes the most interesting. A word of warning, gleaned from Aviary's eventual failure in that market: forking has a tendency to reduce somebody's feed to a bunch of images that look almost exactly the same. The difference being, lots of the forks will be shoddier and lower-quality than the original. It can make a feed far less engaging in far less time. You can fix that by attaching all forked projects together in a feed, but then you're back to square one: not enough original content hitting a user's feed.
tomwalsham 14y ago
Just as a reference point, this brought to mind an old app (in the desktop sense) from 2001 - http://www.16color.com/ http://www.16color.com/ The site is still up, and they claim 40,000 movies were created between 1999 and 2004 (timeline from the DVD : http://www.amazon.com/Best-16-Color-DVD/dp/B000BD98AO/ http://www.amazon.com/Best-16-Color-DVD/dp/B000BD98AO/) I don't think content volume is an issue if the right channel can be found, but you're right that the Instagram comparison is not the correct order of magnitude. disclaimer: I have no relation to 16color, apart from enjoying it over a decade ago, and just discovered one of my animations was actually on their DVD.

by unalone 14y ago

potomak 14y ago

I have one, it's called "forking" and it'll be ready soon.

unalone 14y ago
Forking's always fun. When I interned at Aviary the forked content was sometimes the most interesting. A word of warning, gleaned from Aviary's eventual failure in that market: forking has a tendency to reduce somebody's feed to a bunch of images that look almost exactly the same. The difference being, lots of the forks will be shoddier and lower-quality than the original. It can make a feed far less engaging in far less time. You can fix that by attaching all forked projects together in a feed, but then you're back to square one: not enough original content hitting a user's feed.

tomwalsham 14y ago

Just as a reference point, this brought to mind an old app (in the desktop sense) from 2001 - http://www.16color.com/ http://www.16color.com/ The site is still up, and they claim 40,000 movies were created between 1999 and 2004 (timeline from the DVD : http://www.amazon.com/Best-16-Color-DVD/dp/B000BD98AO/ http://www.amazon.com/Best-16-Color-DVD/dp/B000BD98AO/) I don't think content volume is an issue if the right channel can be found, but you're right that the Instagram comparison is not the correct order of magnitude. disclaimer: I have no relation to 16color, apart from enjoying it over a decade ago, and just discovered one of my animations was actually on their DVD.