dhla

interesting idea - also potentially nauseating and/or boring for viewers. Headphones don't spend a tremendous amount of time in the same position during a DJ set - and sitting on the DJ's neck doesn't provide the most inspiring angle.

Still, cool to see someone try to merge the two.

"'You want to create an environment where it doesn’t feel like only 1 percent of the people win,' said Eric Kuhn, Science’s head of product. 'And we’ve heard that with other platforms, like as soon as you’re clearly not in that top 1 percent, you don’t want to use the app anymore.'"

Important point about the evolution of social networks - unpacking it:

1) focus more on small groups rather than a large whole - most teenagers now know they won't become social celebrities, but still need validation within reach.

2) validation should be lasting, and "social failures" should be short - teens are aware enough of the algorithms promoting & demoting their content that they consistently manually remove content. As such, these algorithms either adapt to being played, or become useless.

Any smart community architects out there should be encouraging small, close groups over a large whole.