DripThat App Releases on IOS
DripThat App Releases on IOS
Nice pictures of Bodie on that new app! ;)
App: https://itunes.apple.com/app/dripthat/id982911292
Corrected link to find me there once the app is installed:
https://dripthat.com/pr?id=jeffsullivan
An Android version is coming soon as well.
I was #sponsored to try out the beta, will share my thoughts in the coming weeks now that it's out.
Originally shared by Mobile Nations
Dripthat is a new social network and app that lets you easily share photos and videos with family and friends. With Dripthat, you share little "drips," small collections of photos and videos. You can choose to share drips publicly, or with a specific group of friends and family. Dripthat makes it…
http://www.imore.com/dripthat-lets-you-share-your-favorite-moments-friends-and-family
Nice pictures of Bodie on that new app! ;)
App: https://itunes.apple.com/app/dripthat/id982911292
Corrected link to find me there once the app is installed:
https://dripthat.com/pr?id=jeffsullivan
An Android version is coming soon as well.
I was #sponsored to try out the beta, will share my thoughts in the coming weeks now that it's out.
Originally shared by Mobile Nations
Dripthat is a new social network and app that lets you easily share photos and videos with family and friends. With Dripthat, you share little "drips," small collections of photos and videos. You can choose to share drips publicly, or with a specific group of friends and family. Dripthat makes it…
http://www.imore.com/dripthat-lets-you-share-your-favorite-moments-friends-and-family
Jeff Sullivan Jeff Sullivan Photography Oh no... yet another photo sharing SN? What's different about this one? Pray tell!
ReplyDeleteDaniel Schwabe With the huge caveat that I'm just getting acquainted to it...
ReplyDeleteOn one hand it's like messaging on steroids, with strong distribution control. You can publish over time, "dripping" out photos over a certain time period, rather than have any over 4 or 5 placed into an album essentially get lost to oblivion and never seen as on exiting networks (existing networks often seem to demote album post distribution, which sucks for content creators).
As the app's creators put it, "We feel that DripThat allows users to be authentic, more exclusive with their content while not having to worry about constantly being advertised to or your messaging being diluted by content overload."
When my family uses messaging apps to share updates, everyone gets notified on everyone else's reply... extremely annoying. So it would be nice to see if I can get them on a new app, since most of them don't want to get on the large, public social media networks. So I'll propose DripThat, and we'll see if they like it as soon as the Android version comes out (I have an LG G4, and my son has the Galaxy S5).
Social networks are all about relationships and interaction, but interaction happens around content. Then there's this:
"In the coming months we will be launching a few very exciting tools and features, one of which will allow you the ability to monetize your content in a way never before possible. Your ability to monetize is based on the quality of the content you create, the exclusivity and uniqueness of the content."
Existing networks failed to design themselves around that simple dynamic, and the networks are managed to favor statistics assumed to represent genuine interaction, like comments and likes, but that's all easy to game, so the reality falls well short of the lofty goals.
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But one of the biggest flaws of existing networks has been interaction corrupted by various insider schemes: recommended user lists, Ponzi-like pyramid revenue sharing, and so on. Social media ranking and SEO of your content is dependent upon your posts' performance on social media, but if you didn't get in on a social network early, and/or favored as an insider by the network's creators and community managers (put on recommended user lists, having your posts artificially promoted), you were basically screwed.
So if one network recognizes the importance of content, designs itself for integrity and is managed to produce genuine quality data to help rank content and its creators, it'll probably be the first. I generate a lot of content and it seems to do well in the overall pool of content (not including promoted users/artificially promoted posts), so obviously I'll have great interest in any new network which shows that potential.
Jeff Sullivan
ReplyDeleteThanks for the (long) explanation. But I still have one question - how do you envision bootstrapping your audience in this new SN?
I can see two audiences - those who know me already and are interested in seeing new content I post; and those who don't know me but get exposed to my work at one point, and eventually start following me.
For the first group, I'll have to convince them that they would get a better experience in the new SN. For the second, there would have to be enough new audience in the new SN, and an effective way for them to discover new content.
I still don't see how this would bootstrap for Dripthat... much as I agree with your points.
Daniel Schwabe Bootstrapping a user base is the challenge for any new network. Hopefully the developers are looking at many successful examples for guidance.
ReplyDeleteFor my family it will be about features, and the outcome will be based on that and whether they're willing to try a new app and leave it open. We have no solution at the moment because they mostly don't so social networks and messaging is too disruptive as conversations veer off the original topic, yet the phone keeps bothering you with irrelevant chatter (or people are afraid to respond since they know how annoying it can be to get superfluous notifications).
As for everyone else, general users of social media networks, allegedly at least 580 million people tried Google+, but there are reportedly about 6-7 million monthly users now, so there must still be a few hundred million people willing to consider a Facebook alternative (perhaps why DripThat is emphasizing privacy)..
No matter which celebrities or brands a social network promotes, there are probably many competing for roughly the same audience who are simultaneously repelled from that network.
At the moment many brands are still stuck in the outmoded concept of pushing a sales pitch at an audience of a certain size, but some seem to be figuring out that they can instead driving viewership through sponsorship of the creation of content.
Presumably some percentage of content creators are still waiting for a level playing field to publish and thrive on. If the number is proportional to the people who tried G+ but didn't stick for whatever reason, it would be 98% of them.