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Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the short-lived dept.

Last year, the six-second video social media app called Vine was shut down by Twitter. The Verge reports that Vine's co-founder, Dom Hofmann, says he's working on "a follow-up to Vine," where he will be funding the project himself outside of his current company, Interspace. "I'm going to work on a follow-up to vine. i've been feeling it myself for some time and have seen a lot of tweets, dms, etc.," Hofmann tweeted.

Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate on his plans. It's possible the follow-up site could be another short-term video app similar to the original Vine, or some other project that will look to build on the foundation Vine started. Would you be interested in a new Vine-like social media app, or did Vine never really appeal to you to begin with?

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  1. Awesome! by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    We can't wait for more worthless social media platforms! ;)

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    1. Re:Awesome! by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      Most of the youtube videos I've seen would be better off with a much shorter limit. Maybe 6 seconds was too short, but I do think there's some value in not giving self-important idiots too much time to blabber.

      Maybe something identical to youtube but it automatically edits out pointless splash screens, repetitive content in a less-than-ten-minute video, and converts content that would be better in text form from video to text?

      And also sends out flying killer robots to murder the families of people who put autoplay videos on their websites.

  2. "Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate on his plans." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism that has been sorely missing on slashdot lately. Thanks Beau.

  3. WOW! by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1

    This is BIG news! ...

    Maybe ...

    Sort of ...

    Possibly ...

    I don't know...

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  4. Pointless variations = CANCER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vine is as ridiculous as Twitter, as a poinzless variation on something that is already existing.

    It is just a file sharer ... limited to videos ... limited to a few seconds.
    *gasp*
    Like you couldn't just use a normal video hoster for this. Hell, give FTP a faster search function, some extended attributes, and enforce a certain file system structure, and you got the exact same functionality! Or actually even more!
    As it could replace YouTube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Blogs, Sharehosters, and pretty much everything else like that out there.

    This is the same insanity as "apps": There's an app for everything because there HAS to be an app for every permutation of combinations of functionality!
    Because apparently, the iDiots that come up with this shit either do not understand the concept of a computer (its universality being the point!), or deliberately transform it into a fixed-function appliance/gadget so you cannot treat it *like a computer*, but HAVE to get a different tool or each different job.

    1. Re:Pointless variations = CANCER by chapstercni · · Score: 2

      Indeed, Twitter may or may not be ridiculous for you. It actually is a great communication tool. It, just like the phone, email, even Slashdot Forums can be absurd at times.

      Twitter is about several things, IMO. (Not limited to these, just an off the cuff quick list).

      1) Real-Time conversation (generally).
      2) Finding conversation that interests you - just like why Slashdotters, in general, are here. (It is obvious we disagree in many areas, but technology seems to be an underlying connecting thread HERE).
      3) Very portable, quick and easy. Even at 280 characters.

      When Twitter came out, it was way more unique than now. And it has problems such as restricting speech. It is NOT an open and free discussion of ideas at the fringes.

      I use it, but I myself have really grown to like "Social Media" and the communication.

      Obviously, YMMV.

    2. Re:Pointless variations = CANCER by omnichad · · Score: 1

      Yeah, and who needs slashdot? All we really need is flat text files in one big folder for each of our comments.

    3. Re:Pointless variations = CANCER by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      Like you couldn't just use a normal video hoster for this.

      Keep It Short Stupid is a good principle, but not something most people hold themselves to. A platform that FORCES brevity might logically seem stupid, but it works. How else do you explain twitter's rise in popularity when facebook already existed? Better marketing?

      Vine clips were an interesting niche for humor. Try watching some of their vines hosted on youtube. Then try to watch anything they've done on youtube with no constraints on time. It's clear that most are in need of forced editing.

  5. Re:Shut down by twitter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Im pretty sure twitter bought vine, then abandoned it. Probably bought it just to get rid of the competition

  6. truth in headlines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "Privileged Ball-scratcher Scratches Balls Again"

    Familiar Odours Linger

  7. Didn't RTFA by Blade · · Score: 4, Funny

    My attention span is shot from years of social media abuse, so I didn't read the article.

    Could someone post a 9 second video of them summarising it for me?

    1. Re:Didn't RTFA by WallyL · · Score: 1

      Could someone post a 9 second video of them summarising it for me?

      No, I can't. Vine was shut down!

  8. Good for him by sad_ · · Score: 1

    if it that is what keeps him busy and happy.

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  9. great news! by slashdice · · Score: 1

    I look forward to not using it.

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  10. Re:After 18 months and over 9000 man hours.... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1

    These 12 second video platforms always seem a bit apocalyptic to me. In fact if I were writing a apocalyptic sci fi I'd have that as a plot point - videos would appear where people try to explain what the problem is but get cut off due to platform limitations.

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  11. Let me guess by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    Twelve second videos?

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  12. The new 7 second video platform by stevenfuzz · · Score: 1

    It will revolutionize the way we think about social media.

  13. Re:No, it is a horrible principle, and just as bad by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

    The good principle is not as simple: To keep information 1. density at the right level for the reader, and 2. well-structured. Otherwise "Yo" would be the best of all messengers, because it has nearly the maximum shortness.

    I'd argue that writing in general, people tend to err towards not dense enough, which is why limiting length helps. People are more geared to talking with conversations where the information density corrects itself through interaction with the audience. With writing, rambling on is more natural than condensing.

    Scientific proposals, newspaper writing, twitter, book editors, they all converge on having short limits because of this.

  14. Mildly amusing by Kazoo+the+Clown · · Score: 1

    Vine was mildly amusing for about 10 minutes. But a short video loop is not a tweet-- you would see it over and over until you manually advanced to the next video. What is needed is a stream that, akin to a twitter feed, will play one loop after another in a continuous movie as new segments are posted. I want to just sit back and watch all my follows in a mashup, not have to constantly click to get to the next one...