Introducing Slingshot: A Creative Labs App

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/06/introducing-slingshot-a-creative-labs-app/

by intull • 12 years ago

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alaskamiller• 12 years ago

Old is remembering it as sound blaster, young is remembering it as facebook.

So begins the gap.

cauterize2• 12 years ago

Care to explain what you mean by "sound blaster"?

darrelld• 12 years ago

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

It's a family of sound cards from the Win 9X era.

agildehaus• 12 years ago

I suddenly feel very old.

atonse• 12 years ago

Thanks for the reminder - Creative Labs and 3DFX to me bring back a ton of memories of high school.

blt• 12 years ago

I was gonna say something about feeling old because I remember the ISA bus. It was dying right around the time I started installing the family's PC upgrades myself. Nice stuff was PCI but our cheap modems and sound cards were still ISA.

I guess gamers still know about PCI, but the average undergrad has probably never heard of a sound card.

Sommer717• 12 years ago

The premise seems really intriguing, essentially Snapchat with an incentive to keep the interaction going. But Facebook seems to be deliberately hindering their own viral growth, because I can't download the app: http://i.imgur.com/UAlGmV9.png - presumably Europe doesn't matter?

uptown2• 12 years ago

I don't blame apps or app-makers for people's choices and actions, but this seems like the perfect app to cause texting while driving even if the recipient had no intention of doing-so. Requiring a "recipient" to send a message in order to receive a pending message sounds like it'd be more-likely to create that scenario.

0x02• 12 years ago

What's the point of withholding from non-US appstores?

Isn't it MORE WORK to selectively publish to specific appstores instead of just leaving the "all countries" checkbox checked in iTunesConnect?

So tired of announcement after announcement from fb just leading to blank pages on my devices.

k-mcgrady3• 12 years ago

Agreed. Paper is still US only too. With Paper I can understand it a bit more (work out the bugs) but this is a social app. The more people who have access the more successful it will be especially considering you needs friends using it to able to use it.

0x02• 12 years ago

For Paper I actually bothered to sign out of my non-US account, in to my US-account, download it, sign out of my US-account, sign in to my non-US account to check it out. Hope their servers are happy serving old clients for a long while because I certainly can't be bothered to perform that dance every time they have an upgrade.

bronzewolf3• 12 years ago

I think I've crashed in the iOS version of the app no less than 15 times in the brief time I've been playing with it. The app is pretty, but all the pretty in the world doesn't matter if it's not functional.

ceejayoz2• 12 years ago

Mine's worked fine thus far. What iOS version are you on?

bronzewolf3• 12 years ago

iOS 7, on an iPhone 4s.

gkoberger• 12 years ago

Interesting that they released this, having just shuttered their very similar app Poke 2 months ago.

The big difference? Slingshot doesn't use the Facebook branding. That's very telling.

k-mcgrady3• 12 years ago

Plus poke is a 'brand' as old as Facebook and nobody really knows what it means. They took a word nobody understood and threw it on a new, totally different product.

wideroots• 12 years ago

Very interesting idea to make people contribute more contents...but I'm not too sure how this would change or contribute to the existing paradigm of mobile conversations.

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