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Looks like they've an instagram-type site set up too.

http://snappyc.am/2LdRMF28U0

http://snappyc.am/4HHxyCad7D

http://snappyc.am/3G3i6QCJUk

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Wow, I'm usually pretty skeptical about these new niche social networks, but I've gotta say that is really really cool.

Great work on the "living photo" idea -- that kind of adds this magical sort of feeling to it, which, I've gotta say, I felt.

I hope your hard work pays off. You've built something special here :)

Thanks mate---comments like yours make my day. :-)

I'm not actually planning on creating a new niche social network. I think, given the vastness of some of the ones that've emerged of late, it would be more fruitful to leverage the ones that exist today.

Can't wait for you to see it!

Given that niche social/mobile networks for short videos are so hot right now (ie. Vine, Instagram Video), it might be more fruitful for you to plan on creating a new one.

+1 I think this could actually take off as a niche social/mobile network. (Despite how ridiculous that sentence sounds.)

The Cinemagram guys started off down that path, an Instagram clone for animated GIF cinemagraphs, then quickly pivoted toward short videos to compete with Vine and Instagram on similar territory.

I'm still not convinced. :-)

Get convinced. These could be a lot of fun. You just need some help with the design/interface, but the tech is great.

Yeah, I think there is a niche for this. One of the main criticisms of vine is that there is a certain magic to pictures compared with video which comes off as more real. We don't want to save the reality of our lives, just the filtered moments.

I really think this could fill a space in between the perfect single shot and the realness of video.

Glad to hear it. I feel the same on the format: it's closer to a photo on the left of the spectrum between photo and video, where vine/instagram/cinemagram are on the far right.

You've put it very nicely--there's definitely some magic about a "silent moving picture".

It requires and sparks the imagination in the viewer, evoking emotion perhaps as easily as a carefully crafted cinematic short.

It's also a photo with more context. If the presentation allowed the owner to pick the starting point, and users to slide forward and backwards, commenters could suggest other funny/interesting frames.

The work required to set up a basic social network around this would surely be insignificant when compared with what you've done to date! Yell out if you need help on the design side of things.

It honestly looks like the photos from the Harry Potter movies. Love it! Great work!

Nice find! It's going to form part of the Facebook Timeline integration that's coming soon... as well as embeds, though Josh already linked to the "press samples" page in the article. :-)

Just for your info, the top link actually crashed my Windows Phone 8's Internet Explorer. Clearly that's an IE bug and nothing else, but I thought you should know :-)

Keep up the good work!

That's unfortunate. I suspect there's a JS memory leak in the viewer, as it will cause a crash on iOS Safari after prolonged use. It's on the list.

Thanks for letting me know!

Do these work for you? When I load the site, I see the photo scrub on the right hand side of the screen - and the slider moves up and down...but I don't see the big image loaded in the center of the screen where I expect the image to be.

Unless it takes a while to load - in which case I was just being uber impatient.

I saw this a couple of days ago. Are you using Chrome?

It might be yet another Chrome canvas bug. :-(

Try Safari and let me know if you can? :-)

Works fine in Firefox, FWIW.

Does not work in FF 22.0, neither in Chrome: 28.0.1500.71 or Opera. (OS: Linux Mint)

Ouch. Looks like some work for me ahead.

The problem with Chrome 28.0.1500.x (.95 here) is troubling me. It seems a more recent problem that I'm convinced is another browser bug.

Thanks for the detailed version report, that's really going to help. :-)

Hm. Works on Chrome 30.0.1582.0 (Canary) - after repeated page refreshes. Was stuck on 98% several times. Disabling the cache doesn't allow me to repro it, emptying the cache doesn't either.

Works with 28.0.1500.95, too.

However, looking at the console, I see occasional instances of Resource interpreted as <blah> but transferred as MIME type <foo>. Not a big deal, but maybe a pointer.

OMG, it works on IE 10! Congrats!

But not working on Chrome or FF :|

What version(s) are you on? I spent a lot of time checking in more recent versions of FF after developing the site.

I do pretty much everything on OS X these days, but I did fire up a couple of VMs with Win XP, Win 7, and Win 8 to test.

I did my entire dev on Chrome, and apart from what appears to be a new canvas issue at present, I'm not having any major issues. (I'm looking into the canvas problem.)

It also doesn't work for me in Chrome on Win8. It does work in IE10, though.

It shudders me to think that IE won over Chrome. :(

I saw an issue also reported on here earlier today a few days ago. Sounds to me like a (new) canvas bug in Chrome.

There are unfortunately several workarounds for browser bugs in the HTML5 viewer. The AS3 Flash port was surprisingly very solid. I can't wait to share more info on that when it's time for another major release.

Chrome 28 on Win8 here - works great, thank you for making it! Even though I personally can't use it since I'm on Android.

Chrome on Mac here. I was also worried it might not work, as after 100% it still took a long time (didn't measure, but maybe 10 seconds?) to actually show anything. Almost closed the tab, lucky I did non.

Cool app + site, congrats! Would love to use this to analyze my disc golf throws, and share with my fellow disc golfers.

Impressive job! But I confirm the webapp does not work for me either, it stays blocked at 0%. I'm using FF (Nightly) 25.0 on Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64.

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