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commentary The ephemeral messaging service's new "Stories" feature is a game-changer for social networking behavior. Here's how it will make our digital personas more genuine.
Before yesterday, I had sent less than five messages using the Snapchat app. To be honest, I didn't even know that a photo or video sent through the app and equipped with its risk-encouraging countdown clock was called a "snap."
But with the introduction of the Stories feature Thursday -- the ability to collect viewable moments in a personal timeline that sticks around for that day only -- Snapchat has become an overnight fascination of mine. It is, in my eyes, one of the most pivotal social-networking additions in recent memory.
While Instagram preps its network for the introduction of photo and video ads and Facebook sits pretty -- having figured out the mobile conundrum plaguing its stock price -- Snapchat went ahead and introduced a truly game-changing feature into the mix.
It may not seem like much on the surface, but Stories is important. It bundles the off-the-cuff, genuine, and downright more honest ways in which we capture and share moments that we know will not last with an easier, less direct delivery mechanism. In essence, it combined the medium of Instagram with a stripped down Facebook profile, providing an ever-changing window into somebody's life that's not about chasing likes, bragging about accomplishments, or capturing sunsets and silhouettes.
It's a lifecasting tool with none of the usual shame or social stigma.
Snapchat's growing up moment Prior to Stories, Snapchat was an app I looked at once a month, save for the few instances when someone texted me with, "Do you use Snapchat?" I would typically respond with a "nah not really," open up the app, remember that I did indeed friend Taco Bell for a promotional perk, and look at my backlog of "snaps." There would be a slew of selfies, shoddy video where I could barely discern what was happening, and a torrent of grainy photos with crude finger doodles smeared all over them.
In about 10 seconds, each one would disappear forever (well, sort of). Needless to say, I just didn't get it. Sure, it was great for the sexting crowd. But I wasn't one of the cynical types to write off the service as one exclusively designed for shameless teenagers.
To me, it always seemed as if Snapchat was on the cusp of something greater, something more true to life than the Facebook status or Instagram photo but was never quite there by simply offering impermanence. Founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy didn't set out to change the world, but they aren't exactly in it for the money or else they would have designed something more advertiser-friendly.
And while they're not armchair philosophers trying to influence the behavioral landscape of humanity, they are really smart guys who knew that there was a gaping hole in our social network use. With Stories, I feel like the Stanford-born company on its way to a $1 billion valuation has finally hit the mark.
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Shimla, Oct 4 (IANS): Can the competing social media campaigns by Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi influence the hearts and minds of youth?
Like the US presidential elections, will the 2014 general elections in India be won or lost on the basis of performance on television and social networking sites?
These were some issues discussed by students of the department of journalism and mass communication at the Himachal Pradesh University here at a two-day seminar which concluded Friday.
N.A.K. Durrani, professor at Aligarh Muslim University, asserted that social media presents many opportunities and challenges to the youth today.
He said, "One cannot undermine the fact that the social media has emerged as an important tool in the communication matrix. There is no denying the fact that the social media is being misused at times by unscrupulous people. But the day is not far when the social media channels will have to regulate the content."
Talking about the opportunities presented by social media for the evolution of the public sphere, Himachal Pradesh University department of journalism chairperson Vir Bala Aggarwal explained how coffee houses and public meeting places in earlier times acted as platforms for discussing various issues.
"With the advent of the mass media, as the people were reduced to audiences at the receiving end, the public sphere suffered a set-back." However, she hoped that with the advent of the social media, the public sphere will get strengthened.
Vikas Dogra, assistant professor in the same department, said as a tool for communication, the social media, including social networking sites, is still in its nascent stage.
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Facebooks head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giants own infrastructure.
SDN is the way things are going to be. It is not a fad. This will be the way the networks will be built going forward, said Najam Ahmad, director of technical operations at Facebook, who oversees Facebooks production and corporate network. Prior to joining Facebook, Ahmad worked as general manager of global networking services at Microsoft.
Ahmad was part of a panel about SDN at the New York Interop New York conference, held this week. He spoke with the IDG News Service afterward.
SDN has generated a lot of discussion at this years Interop. Many wondered if it is just this years buzz phrase, or as others believe, the future of networking.
For Ahmad, SDN solves an important problemmaking Facebooks network as flexible as the rest of its IT stack. We want to deploy, manage, monitor, and fix the network using software, Ahmad said.
Todays switches, routers and other network equipment stymies Facebook from making the most efficient use of its network and the Internet, he said. The company needs to reduce its network latency as much as possible, simply in order to remain responsive to its billion users scattered around the globe.
Admittedly, Facebook doesnt manage its network with typical network operation center (NOC)-styled operations, in which network administrators monitor screens for alerts and then fix problems as they arise.
Instead, the company aggressively automates network management as much as possible, by writing scripts that can anticipate and mitigate issues before they come up, as well as to maximize network performance.
Facebook has been limited, however, by its networking equipment. With traditional networking, you buy a box. You get command line interface, and protocols, but that is all you get, Ahmad said.
Ahmad has felt frustrated, for instance, when finding a certain issue in some networking gear could only be addressed by the vendor dialing directly into the equipment itself and issuing secret commands to an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), commands not available to customers through the standard command line interface (CLI).
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