robo.to lets you make video status updates … but there’s no sound, which means they aren’t really videos, just animated gifs. I feel like if someone made a site that let you upload videos no longer than like 10 seconds, with sound, it would be the next big thing … I’d much rather keep up with someone by watching blippy little videos than reading Twitter updates. Nothing against twitter, but video lets you get so much closer to the person. And I know you can upload videos to twitter indirectly via twitvid (etc), but it’s not the same as a fundamentally video-based service. I really feel like the time for such a “video Twitter” is now. I would use the shit out of that service!!
I reminds me of the earliest version of Vimeo, when most of the clips were straight off my digital camera and no longer than 10 seconds. Those clips were very watchable little vignettes of real life. Few people can create compelling videos longer than 10 seconds, but those first 10 seconds are pretty interesting.
Via caseypugh.
(UPDATE: When you record a new video, it replaces the old one … Le sigh ….)
History is filled with marketing failures that were successful in the press. The Tucker 48, the U.S. Football League, Videotext, the automated factory, the personal helicopter, the manufactured home, the picturephone, polyester suits. The essence of the hype was not just that the new product was going to be successful. The essence of the hype was that existing products would now be obsolete.
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A few days ago I read something on the web. I can’t remember who said it, but the essence was: “If humans are so good at adapting to their environments, how come we’re all so stubborn?”
I thought it was a good point. Humans have adapted to innumerable lifestyles, and most people do resist change. How can we reconcile these seeming contradictions?
Today an answer hit me. Humans are exceptionally good at adapting when they are required to. When something beyond your control hits you, when you accept its immutability, your whole system immediately starts working on a contingency. Man doesn’t cry over spilt milk, he cleans up the mess.
Though, not all humans stay in their routines until forced. Some (they must be a minority) change willingly. And sometimes, their changes spread through the world so drastically, they force others to adapt. These are the people who make the world, for better or for worse.
Can you name a time you willingly adapted?
You may learn information about yourself that you do not anticipate. This information may evoke strong emotions and has the potential to alter your life and worldview. You may discover things about yourself that trouble you and that you may not have the ability to control or change.
Whenever I see someone else using Gmail, I disable the stupid “Web Clips” for them … the inbox feels much less cluttered that way.
Just go to Settings, then Web Clips, then uncheck this box. Now there won’t be ads/crap at the top of your inbox.
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