Om is an outstanding amateur photographer who loves looking at the work of others as well as sharing his photos. He's excited by a new app called Glass which, among other things, isn't Facebook and interviews one of the founders.
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TW: Instagram wasn’t the first social network to have these features, and we won’t be the last.
But how we are going about implementing features. For example, currently, we don’t have likes. If and when we launch a feature in that vein, it’ll be private. We’ve intentionally avoided any public counts. We don’t want Glass ever to become a popularity contest. We’re not home for influencers. We are a home for photographers.
So, we have focused on comments in Glass, and there’s a big reason for that. We want to spur discussion about the photograph. For example, we highlight EXIF data in our app. That leads to conversations about lenses, for example. We’ve seen some amazing threads happen in our early testing by making comments the primary way to interact with a photo.
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