DISQUS

Jaime · 1 month ago

I do love DailyBooth. It definitely has staying power. I don't know if it's the first of it's kind, but it's definitely not going to be the last image driven social media site. It's unique, it's fun, and you can take a picture every day!

Ryan Graves · 1 month ago

Jaime, I agree it is fun. But I don't think it's just theimages that make it
fun, it's the format. You can upload a pic everyday on literally any site
(blog, flickr, etc) but the fact that you're having a convo w/ something
other than text (only) is very powerful to me.

Thanks for reading! Hope to see you back soon.

gregorylent · 1 month ago

the mind is set up for multi-sense input, thrives on it in fact .. and text is decidedly NOT that ...

but a stronger love of the mind is its need for flow, directed by the self, not by the media ...

so, why video sucks, is i have to wait for the meaning to come .. with text, i can skim ..

dailybooth is a toy ...

the real future is a sliding multi-channel multi-media melange of information streams that I can control .. not the producer ...

wanna see an example? http://waterlife.nfb.ca/ ...

you give me 140 of something like that, just a hit, and i will be a happy man ..

the future is like that ... bandwidth be damned

enjoy, gregory

Ryan Graves · 1 month ago

@Gregory

Brilliant. Also checked out your blog, if you're still living in Asia that's
awesome. I was in Shanghai in March & loved it.
Be well.

Cheers,
Ryan

Emeri Gent [Em] · 1 month ago

The web experience IMHO is an invitation but it is also a discovery. The invitation brings a comfort zone and opens the door to experiencing sites such Dailybooth, but discovery is personal.

Twitter works for me because it's design allows for imagination and purpose and we can personalize that in a form that I guess speaks to our specific digital language and behaviour. Look at the language we naturally utilize. Someone might say "I feel you man", another might say "I see your point" and another say "I hear that" - why wouldn't digital experience mirror natural sensory experience that we find in our own language?

I think we focus far too much on what might succeed and what won't when things actually scale online because they take on a life of their own. Look at the history of Google, think of who turned it down or did not think it was worth buying. I am convinced Facebook took on a life of its own not because of Peter Thiel's underlying effort but because the term "Facebook" resonates at a deep level with everyone's educational experience, "Facebook" is a symbolic term. Twitter and Google have become nouns because they represent symbolic property which was already out there but did not have a name for it.

I do not know what symbolic reservoir of energy there is for Dailybooth to generate the kind of escalation that has occurred with Google, Twitter, Facebook etc etc but I find it interesting never-the-less. IMHO thought leaders do not create phenomena's, phenomena's create thought leaders, the question I ask from a "discovery" point of view is if there is a phenomena to Dailybooth, what would you think it might be. There in lies the most interesting perspective that at least makes us think and I much prefer to make myself think than contemplate from a crystal ball.

Ultimately the benefit I accrue from thinking about this lies in the exercise of the power of my imagination. Once exercised, my next thought is tomorrow is a new day and a new month - and since most of these things are beyond our own personal power, my imagination so prompted, needs to be channeled as an energy into the potential purpose of living in the "Now". The way I view "Dailybooth" has more to do with how I view crystal ball gazing (which is a form of speculation) and how I view the ignition of personal imagination (which is a form of investment).

I welcome your posting because it makes me think and that is the gift that I find here for me to explore. I wish all the best to the future of Dailybooth and welcome it most of all in the spirit of healthy digital transformation.

[Em]
GoAL #16

Ryan Graves · 1 month ago

"IMHO thought leaders do not create phenomena's, phenomena's create thought
leaders"
-brilliant.

Emeri Gent [Em] · 1 month ago

[Em] 12:19am

Your reply got me to think or at least draw out a stream of consciousness about the subject of "brilliance". It is gone midnight where I am and this Cinderella Man is still typing out thoughts :-)

http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/33919

I appreciate the inspiration, most people tend to dig for dirt, but you are a seeker of value. I like that.

[Em]

Ryan Graves · 1 month ago

Thanks very much Emri. I appreciate it.

min viable · 3 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing these observations re: DailyBooth--this (early?) example of "image collaboration" was a really helpful point of reference when reading Joe Medved + Jon Steinberg's recent endorsements of Hot Potato (described by its founder as an "environment for collective storytelling")--

http://joemedved.com/post/265142688/a-night-wit...
+
http://www.jonsteinberg.com/2009/12/hotpotato-l...

The exchange of pictures by participants in the Hot Potato thread re: Gossip Girl to which JM + JS both refer seemed somewhat similar to the informal call-and-response or loose collaboration that can develop organically on DailyBooth, as you explain here--

Ryan Graves · 3 weeks ago

Great observation. I do agree that there is a strong similarity here. At the
early stages of these services sometime it's hard to see the differences
until they mature to become the product that they're meant to be. Both
DailyBooth and HotPotato have really smart folks behind them and I'm excited
to see what they can do...

Thanks for comment, great thoughts, why anonymity?