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Vine is great, and this is a really cool look into it. Mesmerizing.
Wow. I didn't think 6 seconds would really be long enough but this is definitely forcing people to curate and be creative.

And cats.

Yeah, the format really works! I saw a few really well done stop-motion clips just now, too!
pretty fun to watch. it takes a while to load the videos on my iphone even though i had wifi connection. Lightt delivers a much smoother experience and has a much more interesting interface since other videos load right away. The sound and the video recording experience really separate Vine from Lightt.

I would recommend telling the user to enable sounds their phones to use Vine. I keep my iPhone on vibration all the time, did not realize Vine videos had sound to it until I saw this link.

If you're into new ways of watching the same minutia people post on facebook and twitter: people feeding their babies and making breakfast. Sorry, but that doesn't qualify as earth-shattering.
You must have hit a bad run, I was impressed of how few breakfast & baby clips showed up!
Very cool! Nice use of the Twitter API for sure.

So many cats.

So what is it? I don't understand what making vines or a scene are, and don't want to download an app to find out.
This is seriously fantastic. I saw Vine yesterday and thought it was a cool concept but didn't try it, after watching this I've downloaded the app and shared it with a bunch of friends and they're now downloading the app too! Such a simple and brilliant idea, Vine should add this to their homepage.

edit: I've now been watching this for 40 minutes... why are the banal acts of ordinary people so interesting?! Maybe it's the promise of a brand new thing in 6 seconds that keeps me watching.

I'm surprised vineroulette.com wasn't the chosen URL for this
One up. I was thinking the same name too!

Isn't there a potential challenge for vinepeek? How would you prevent pervs streaming penises and see-me-jerk-off clips? Especially, when this thing grows in volume.

They could hand curate the stuff that goes into the vinepeek pool.
Actually, this would be a fairly solvable problem: only show Vines from users with 400+ or more followers and older than a year (you may have to refine this metric to also examine the validness of their followers' accounts). Presumably, people with Twitter followings to care about won't just flash their junk...though maybe once in while, you'll get an Anthony Weiner.

In fact, you could probably get a certain class of videos by only showing Vines in which the tweets are directed at people, to catch the folks who forgot that @-mentions != DM (ala Anthony Weiner)

Defer the problem to Vine, surely?
Considering the content of chatroulette, I think it's a wise decision not to use a name that conjures up those images.
Wow, surreal. Vine = immediately broadcast 6 second .gifs?

My brain doesn't really want to accept that these snippets are live.

Live as soon as people share them, though many are roughly live.
Someone might wait a while before submitting I guess. These are just picked up as soon as they are shared on Twitter.
A little help please! so I have a vine link, say http://vine.co/v/b53lmWrxtQr.

How do I get the .mp4 link to the vine video itself? is there a vine api or do I hard scrape?

<meta property="twitter:player:stream" content="https://vines.s3.amazonaws.com/ videos/FED404A9-A4BE-4575-A73B-8542E146FA71-52962-0000207E5EF700D9_1.0.3.mp4? versionId=E5rpcmqj9ySK91RTSGuF3rjYuSPBOgzG>

I think maybe the Twitter api (what vinepeek is using) may return it, because it's part of a twitter card thing?

edit: no it doesn't, you'd need to scrape.

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Looks like it would be easy to scrape, grab the src attribute from the video element.
I also didn't realize that vine was making real movies with sound, thought it was just animated gifs then someone turned on a blender in a clip and I freaked out, hah.
Fantastic idea!

Broadcast TV distorts our model of the world by showing us only the extremes. Vinepeek puts normality in its proper place.

Left this on my second monitor while I work, so mesmerising . I didn't think Vine would be this interesting when I first heard about it.

Maybe they've found mobile videos sweet spot?

You think this would make for an interesting Roku channel?
Looks like youtube finally have something to worry about...
That's an insane thing to say! Vine will be forgotten in 2 months.
Just like a 140 character messaging system, it has no future.
IMO neither of these is true. Vine can't replace YouTube in any meaningful capacity, but it will change the way we think about video on the internet on a very fundamental level.
This is going to blow up. Coolest thing I've seen in quite some time. I love how there's no wait and it jumps from clip to clip.
First interesting thing I've seen in a while. It works.

Reminds me vaguely of the videos in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.

Yeah, watch this for a few minutes and you really get a sense of a planetful* of people doing stuff

*=ok, the smartphone owning subset of the planet, but thats growing.

Clicking the link I thought it would be a website covered in video tiles showing everything going on at once. That would be cool, maybe add a second page for this?
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It reminds me of memories. Whenever I try and remember something from years ago, it comes back in snippets like this.

Sarcastically, "from the makers of twitter, information free video!"

Perhaps skip videos by users who just posted one? Saw "duplicates" a few times where someone uploaded the same video more than once
This project has really shown me what Vine is all about! Good stuff!

A "pause" button would really improve this project. Not for the video but for the transition between videos. A 5 Tweet buffer and a back button would be even better. That way, if I see a Tweet that I want to look at more closely, I can go back to it.

YouTube for the Attention-Deficit Generation?

I unfortunately find watching these jumpy snippets jarring. I can see the appeal for getting tiny slices of someone's day, but I'm finding it hard to enjoy it.

Thank god there is another sane person like me. I too find it difficult to make sense or enjoy just 6 second snippets. Conveying a sweet short targeted message for a specific someone with just a 6 second video itself is so hard, let alone be able to generate a 6 second content that is of meaning/relevance to a much broader audience. Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context.
Just a novelty that will fade off. I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context.

As much as I dislike them, I also think they'll take off.

I can see them as another Instagram-like "useless" thing that is none-the-less popular because it's quick, illustrative and requires little effort. Think an animated GIF-like snapshot of your day.

(Bah humbug, etc.)

'Animated gif like snapshot' is certainly a more attractive option. But most of the funny animated gifs out there have some sort of 'continuation' or 'smooth transition' that for some reason is not coming thru from the Vine video snippets. May be the app (incorrectly) provides a feature that lets the users (jarringly) jump from scene to scene or may be more features/filters have to be added to coerce the users into creating a nice 'animated gif' like smoothly transitioning video. If its left to the talent of the normal day-to-day person, then a majority of the videos that will be uploaded will be jarring ones.
"Thank god there is another sane person like me." Check your ego, please.

"I cant see any useful purpose for 6 second clips in a social wide audience context."

"I can't see any useful purpose for 140 character blurbs in a social wide audience context."

Just because 140 char limit worked for a text media does not guarantee that very short length works for every media. What next, 5 second podcasts? Or should we call them 'shoutouts' rather??

Even with 140 char twitter, unless a very strong opinion by an important person is being conveyed succinctly, most of the (useful) twits exist to give a short opinion on a larger piece linked to by a shortened url. The rest are your standard "I brushed my teeth, I just got of my car etc..." stuff that I leave the usefulness of for YOU to judge.

My point is that your personal opinion, as highly as you might think of it, is actually irrelevant in determining how successful a service will or will not be. You can pander all you want about how Twitter is useless except as a link-sharing service, but the reality of the situation is far different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Revolution

Just like watching TV, except you don't even have to press to see the next channel. Also, no ads, no reruns. Great.
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PG has talked about how "real real life" aka Justincam type things were coming for TV. This is literally a video based channel that I'm going to come back to and watch pretty consistently if it stays active and this interesting.

Vine is clearly a big idea and vinepeek is awesome.

One suggestion: below the fold, show a list of the last 5 vines, just in case I want to rewatch or bookmark them, because I envision myself just sitting back and occasionally jumping to the keyboard/mouse when something really interesting comes up and then disappears
Good idea, thanks!
seriously, i am loving this app