Comments on: Are we opening a social network?

Are we opening a social network?

DarlingBri — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:41:16 -0800

Mathowie + Josh Miller + Branch = how babby social networks are made?

I was interested to see Matt's photo (and Anil's) being used to explain post-Twitter love child Branch and How it Works. 10 minutes after signing up for an invite, I got an auto-response email from someone named Josh Miller letting me know about a "secret" way into Branch. At which point I began wondering if I was missing something, like... you are all moving to SF to move in with Evan Williams and we're all being sold to Facebook or something. What gives? PS: If there is any legit involvement from anyone at MeFi with Branch, maybe someone could explain to me what it is. Because I have read all the words, but in that order they convey no meaning at all.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:46:50 -0800

Are you confusing Josh Miller with Josh Millard?

By: 2bucksplus

2bucksplus — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:47:35 -0800

I just don't get social media at all.

By: pb

pb — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:49:16 -0800

No, there's no connection between MetaFilter and Branch. Maybe they used pictures of Matt, Anil, and me because we were involved in an early conversation on Branch.

Branch is another spot to have conversations with people. It's kind of like Twitter in that comments can only be so long. It's not like Twitter in that only invited people can participate in a conversation. All of the comments show up in one list on one page, unlike Twitter. So it's a little easier to follow a single conversation. I think that's the selling point.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:49:51 -0800

For the record, I don't know what the whozit is with the whatsit on any of this, though it is amusing to see Matt and Paul's smiling avatars show up on that little animation thing over there for whatever reason.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:50:08 -0800

My Tweet Branched out into your Facebook's Last Jam.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:50:22 -0800

Are you confusing Josh Miller with Josh Millard?

YES! Yes I am! I feel so much better now, thank you!

Except for the profound public humiliation part.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:52:21 -0800

Well at least you invited us all here to mock you.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:55:29 -0800

If it will make you feel better I invite everyone to mock me for my endless ~FEELINGS about teen wofl.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:56:04 -0800

It's a social network that operates on a shame-based economy.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:56:21 -0800

Since I was born without a shame gland this is not really a big deal to me though.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:58:21 -0800

Poor Cortext should not take it personally; I spelled my own husband's name wrong on our wedding favours. For real!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:59:44 -0800

If it will make you feel better I invite everyone to mock me for my endless ~FEELINGS about teen wofl.

wofl? is that some new social media thingy that delivers waffles? invite plz.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:59:48 -0800

I'm sure he won't, whoever he is.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:01:33 -0800

it delivers wofls perched upon the firm glorious manbreasts of derek hale

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:01:36 -0800

I'll pay the $5 if Josh Miller wants the cortext account.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:02:00 -0800

wofl is how Elmer Fudd laughs online.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:14:31 -0800

I hope cortext, jazzy ming and restless_bromide all chime in on this exciting new social network!

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:18:59 -0800

THIS IS WHY WE NEED AN EDIT WINDOW.

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:19:33 -0800

don't forget baz!

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:21:44 -0800

I propose that cortex start an alternative to Facebook called BUTTSLOLbook.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:44:19 -0800

The weirdest thing about this is that Anil invited me and the ex-Blogger people into a conversation and I knew it was using some sort of beta software of some kind, but I had no idea any of it would become public or that what we were doing was like a test case for the company. It was all password-protected at the time, but eventually I figured out that Ev invested in it or something. It's fine and I like how it turned out, but I probably would have been more thoughtful if I knew it was going to be a big example of conversation that the public would see.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:45:37 -0800

Dear Vimeo:

Your embedding still sucks.

Love,
Cautious Internet guy.

By: mph

mph — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:48:51 -0800

If it will make you feel better I invite everyone to mock me for my endless ~FEELINGS about teen wofl.

Is that you who's in the top bookmarks on pinboard every day with the Teen Wolf fic? Coz if you'd go ahead and check that "I am part of fandom" box I'd be super grateful.

By: Bunny Ultramod

Bunny Ultramod — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:54:21 -0800

Babby is not made. Babby is formed.

By: special-k

special-k — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:57:59 -0800

I'm living the Josh Miller High Life.

By: Toekneesan

Toekneesan — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:00:52 -0800

Millard. Like Willard, but he doesn't turn the rats on us at the end.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:03:28 -0800

Ugh, pinboard. Hells to the no.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:04:06 -0800

Oh wait pinboard is not pinterest. I retract my UGH but still no.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:28:24 -0800

It's kind of like Twitter in that comments can only be so long.

I don't know why this -- in the case of Twitter or anywhere else -- ignites such fury in me. But it does. It's odd.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:29:09 -0800

Oh, good, someone mentioned Pinboard. Now I can link Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski's thoughts on Branch.

By: Bunny Ultramod

Bunny Ultramod — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:34:16 -0800

Millard. Like Willard, but he doesn't turn the rats on us at the end.

We can't be sure of that. We're not at the end yet.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:44:24 -0800

brev=lolsol

By: spitbull

spitbull — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:46:12 -0800

Pretty soon we'll all be so busy social networking that we don't have any friends.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:53:20 -0800

I ddn't have any friends before it was cool.

By: dunkadunc

dunkadunc — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:59:40 -0800

The secret: What we would all rather be doing is sitting in a park talking with a friend like in that video, not communicating on another goddamn social network.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:03:27 -0800

For the longest time, I confused Josh Million with Josh Milliard.

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:15:28 -0800

Anyone in the app.net alpha? I heard app.net is the new branch.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:24:46 -0800

app.net is twitter with more whitespace and it costs $50

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:35:35 -0800

I'm stunned that app.net isn't already the name of a Microsoft product.

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:57:16 -0800

Toekneesan: "Millard. Like Willard, but he doesn't turn the rats on us at the end."

It's too bad it's not Mallard. Because then we could call him Duckie. /NCIS fanatic

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:00:10 -0800

for $1000 you get twitter + access to groundbreaking In-Person meeting technology.

You are right, I can't believe Microsoft dropped the ball on the app.net name, that could have been their new app creation app.They need to fire Balmer.

By: carter

carter — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:14:00 -0800

Their pitch kind of sounds like a description of Metafilter, actually.

I know this is kind of missing the point, but that whole jolly-voiceover-explaining-the-obvious, stock images of potential users having a perfect time, and that plinky-plunky-tinkle-tinkle quasi-iPhone ad music, just make me go bleh. But I guess I am not in their demographic.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:22:22 -0800

Branch has a much better video than app.net, which was just painfully awkward to watch. The guy's probably a member here, so I apologize, but consider using a script and looking into the camera (or just hire a spokesperson, now that you have three quarters of a million dollars).

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:22:53 -0800

plinky-plunky-tinkle-tinkle

brb, have to pee

By: carter

carter — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:32:34 -0800

Be a sweet, and wipe the seat!

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:54:21 -0800

he should just read the statement like 10 times and do jump cuts between the take that seems best between each take, make him look dynamic as fuck like the web 2.0 CEO version of Jay Smooth. He should throw some cats in there too, I only want to get on app.net to see cat pics nobody else has access to. VIP cat type shit.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:11:54 -0800

I'm not going to lie, I was really excited to see my name added to Matt's, but I'm glad I didn't accidentally procreate a social network with him, like while I was blacked out that one time. That'd be a little scary.

By: subbes

subbes — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:15:04 -0800

the thing about app.net is that it seems to be nothing but a face of white male faces.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:26:46 -0800

subbes: "a face of white male faces"

Arrggghhh!

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:29:49 -0800

Oh wait pinboard is not pinterest. I retract my UGH but still no.

I paid $4 or 5 for my pinboard account. I never use it. I don't remember my username or password. If the guy starts charging a $5 a year maintenance fee I am paying it. I want to encourage that sort of service. I've a lot of fun on twitter over the years, but their treatment of third party devs, their insistence I see ads for products I couldn't give a shit about, and the fact that they keep suggesting I follow asshole celebrities I've already blocked, makes me question how long I'll stay a member. Let me pay.

Oh, yeah, Matt, send me an invoice.

By: heyho

heyho — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:50:15 -0800

There are ads on twitter? I've never seen one. Huh.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:56:53 -0800

he should just read the statement like 10 times and do jump cuts between the take that seems best between each take, make him look dynamic as fuck like the web 2.0 CEO version of Jay Smooth.

I can't even watch a Jay Smooth video without wanting to punch him in the ~~dick~~ face for those jump cuts. They're just completely intolerable.

By: theichibun

theichibun — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:18:25 -0800

elizardbits: "If it will make you feel better I invite everyone to mock me for my endless ~FEELINGS about teen wofl."

As long as you mean the movie I have no problem with that.

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:27:43 -0800

Nobody has explored the jump cut on YouTube like Robbie Sherrard? He is almost, but not quite, assembling videos word by word.

Maybe app.net dude is doing something right by not presenting a slicker image. He is like the Pepperidge Farm, Country Time, or Bartles and James of social networks. He harkens back to a simpler time when there were like 5 people on and they were all dudes who just wanted to talk about The Evil Dead and Warhammer Miniatures with somebody. Instead of doing a website he should do the whole thing in ncurses, maybe if you pay extra you get a shell with dial in access.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:40:20 -0800

> If it will make you feel better I invite everyone to mock me for my endless ~FEELINGS about teen wofl

If it makes you feel guilty I will tell you that I've added Teen Wolf to my Netflix queue based on nothing but your Tumblr.

By: maryr

maryr — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:33:00 -0800

Tumblr loves the Teen Wolf.

By: a humble nudibranch

a humble nudibranch — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:42:17 -0800

elizardbits :Since I was born without a shame gland this is not really a big deal to me though.

Maybe you just need to have your shame glands expressed.

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:34:23 -0800

Branch is slowly becoming an indispensable resource for technology discussion. Is this the Quora Killer?

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:41:03 -0800

Logo looks a but like they snagged some of Borders branding in the fire sale.

By: royalsong

royalsong — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:38:09 -0800

I bet this will me mildly successful and then twitter will go "omnomnom rranches are tasty!"

By: royalsong

royalsong — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:38:20 -0800

bah. branches*

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:14:42 -0800

Wait when you say 'Teen Wolf' you're talking about young Tom Wolfe right?

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:55:32 -0800

Matt would not allow the camera to remain out of focus.

By: misskaz

misskaz — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:04:04 -0800

I'm on app.net, same username as here, if anyone wants to reach out to me there.

/hahah nevermind why would anyone want to talk to me?

I ponied up the $50 because I like the idea of a startup that actually has a revenue model from the get go, and the no ads thing, and the transparent data/API access thing, and why the hell not.

By: schmod

schmod — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:01:21 -0800

I still haven't quite figured out how I should be using it, but stellar.io seems pretty cool to me.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:01:55 -0800

Logo looks a but like they snagged some of Borders branding in the fire sale.

Still in play at Borders...in Malaysia.

By: MsMolly

MsMolly — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:28:25 -0800

Maybe you just need to have your shame glands expressed.

I've heard the smell from that can be absolutely horrific.

By: davejay

davejay — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:27:09 -0800

"don't forgt baz!" made me laugh so hard i nearly peed. Either i love this site or i am up too late. Both maybe.

By: i_wear_boots

i_wear_boots — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:38:15 -0800

Yep, davejay booth! :)

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:42:48 -0800

> There are ads on twitter? I've never seen one. Huh.

So far only sponsored tweets in your timeline and trending topics and sponsored people you should follow and escort ads. So far.

Most third party apps doesn't show this crap. I suppress a lot of it with stylesheets. If you are using something other than the web you're probably fine until twitter cuts off you app of choice.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:18:35 -0800

Given the enormous clusterfuck of my spelling errors all over Metafilter for the past 7 days, way above average even for me, I just wanted to clarify that I am not posting while drunk. I mean, I'm sure I have posted while drunk, but I'd pretty much have to have been drunk all week for that to be the case.

While that sounds fun, the boring reality is that I have moderate dyscalculia and mild dyslexia; the dyslexia gets much worse when I'm tired or stressed, both of which I have been all week. Coupled with the fact my in-browser spell checker appears to have changed languages, it has not been a good week for text communication. (Funny, yes; effective, not so much...)

For the record, I know perfectly well Josh is cortex and not cortext, although I was genuinely surprised to discover his last name is Millard and not Miller. Sorry Cortex!

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:55:57 -0800

It's cool, it's a common typo (and the word "context" is constantly giving me double takes, for that matter) and Miller is a much more common last name. And most people mispronounce Millard to rhyme with it, so you were just riding the like psycho-phonetic vibe or whatever.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:03:26 -0800

I think you should tell people it's pronounced m'lord. That would be awesome.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:13:18 -0800

I pronounce it more like I'm rapping about culinary fat, like I got my lard on my mind and m'mind on m'lard.

By: lackutrol

lackutrol — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:19:31 -0800

Ooh, new toy! Can I have one?

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:24:14 -0800

Lard? I've got some some extra right here...

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:04:11 -0800

$50 only gets you access for one year.