busy.org kinda just dropped the mic on what it means to interface with the steem blockchain with their recent update. It’s incredible, thank’s to @exyle for his wonderful vlog videos for the update to make me go and check it out, it’s really up their with what most people expect of a social site with the added bonus of the transparent interfacing to the blockchain — therefore the masses have a feel good factor straight away.
Yet, all I seem to see here on steemit interface is arrows that break my lovely graphic designs that I took time pixel by pixel to get right and all you do is put a graphic after every image/link making it look fugly — I don’t know man, it’s like the development team spend all their time in command line and thing that the users will just suck it up.
I’d be interested to see how many people, especially those of the community that watch a lot of video content see the new update working out for them, do you remember how much of a game changer it was to be able to watch videos inline in the chat on slack when it first came out? — kinda feels like that.
So yeah. ..
Kinda confused here, is there gonna be some kind of massive reveal? Will it feel like the scene in the wizard of oz where we see someone just operating the steemit frontend with levers and blind panic? What’s going on? What happened to the steemit wallet that we were promised in december?
I realise that they have put out a statement in recent months about what is going on behind the scenes but it feels like one department is NOT talking to another.. .
What should be WHITELISTED asap I believe to increase not only retention but people wanting to put regular social messaging out there about the platform are the following.. .
- we need @dlive and @dtube native playback support inline
- we need twitch and mixer support for live streaming embeds
- ability to play back @dsound audio right there in the comments
- the ability to host a votes and polls (inline) in the comments
- maybe some tool to activate/crowd swell people into collaborating
I’m looking at busy.org more each day now because of the INLINE playback, I don’t get transported off to @dtube it just plays right there and I presume that’s because they are using IPFS to store images so it makes it easier I guess in their framework to allow the embedding on IPFS content, seriously that’s a game changer for interfacing with the STEEM blockchain because these are native features other social platforms have.
If we want to head back up the WEISS reports we really need to seriously consider who are the brand advocates of the platform and pull them all together on a daily live video standup, I’m happy to host this on @dlive if I had another batch of people that wanted to take part, we really need to mobilise on this so we can get our rating back from C+ to at least a B! :)
I realise a lot of this has to do with the falling price of bitcoin and the fact that not many people are trading STEEM but if we don’t at least hold up the social/marketing side then we don’t want to slip down to that D rating, sometimes you really need the D in life and sometimes you don’t — this is one time we gotta walk away and reverse it! :)
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pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.
