Vine's Successor Byte Launches Next Spring (theverge.com)

Vine's co-founder, Dom Hofmann, has been working on "a follow-up to Vine" for over a year and we now know what the successor will be called and when it will be ready for the masses. According to The Verge, the "proper sequel will be called Byte, and it's coming in spring 2019." From the report: Not much else is known about how Byte will work, but Hofmann says it is officially the project formerly known as v2, which had a publicized and transparent development process with dedicated fan forums for around six months starting last November. Hofmann postponed v2 indefinitely in May of this year, citing funding and logistic issues, as well as his day job running an immersive entertainment studio called Innerspace VR. Hofmann kept the forums open to keep discussion going, and it seems like he's now squared away some type of funding to get v2 off the ground as Byte. We'll likely hear more soon, but it's just a relief to hear it's actually happening and that the six-second videos that shaped modern internet culture could be coming back in a big way.

Comments

too late

[phantomfive]

The major social media platforms are already integrating video so there's no reason to use another service. Also Vine didn't shape culture it was a riff on the side of YouTube.

If they're going to call it "Byte"....

[NormalVisual]

....the first clip released should be a chronological listing of Robert Tinney's cover paintings, each painting in one frame.

Re:bad name

[rnturn]

I guess they went with this name after deciding that calling thier new site "PC World", "Creative Computing", or "IBM Technical Journal" would have caused some confusion on the Internet.