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A comment on Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny.

Re:Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny by krapp on Sunday December 15, 2013 @10:53PM (#6912745)
I don't see how it necessarily offers a "window" into someone's soul to have a blurry webcam running on them. The webcam probably won't add anything to the context of a post, and more likely than not the image is either going to be someone staring into the screen or an empty chair when they're not there.

The process of watching a writer write is not as insightful as, say, watching an artist paint.

There may be something to combining video and text into some kind of blogging system - because I could almost see it working on mobile with pictures of just about anything else. You write a post, you take some video, it just goes.

But this just seems superficial and even a bit vain. Also potentially dangerous. Digital blurs can be removed after all, can't they?

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Re:Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny by interpol_p on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:13PM (#6912824)
It would probably work better if it only played a replay of the video captured while they were actually writing their post.

The only way I would find this interesting is for authors who blog on mobile devices — seeing them blog as they move through the world would be kind of unique (and then probably get boring once the novelty wore off).

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Re:Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny by krapp on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:22PM (#6912855)
>and then probably get boring once the novelty wore off

You might need something to augment that novelty. Maybe instead of a blogging platform, some kind of PostSecret like app where people post anonymously with video backdrops instead of cards. This would be better than a blogging platform as well because it would encourage (or perhaps even limit) small blocks of text which would fit into a small space without needing a scrollbar.

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Re:Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny by mfarid on Monday December 16, 2013 @05:59PM (#6918438)
But anonymously posting secrets in the form of videos with a small caption would make the videos look rather 'not like secrets'. I would rather prefer it as a microblogging platform than a secret sharing platform with video snippet captured while the text was being written, in the background...
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Re:Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny by callmeed on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:15PM (#6912835)
I agree but I think it could morph (dare I say pivot) into something cool–possibly on mobile. I could see letting someone blog from their iphone while the camera on the back is capturing the environment.
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