@pt We noticed three major use cases: 1) one-day or continuous events such as a trip, weekend, party, workshop or even a street protest; 2) specific place e.g. home, office, bar etc; 3) communities around brands, objects or actions: Nike Shoes, Graffity, Running Club, Movie Posters, IKEA hacks, Wine etc. Some of those cirqles are curated by the one who started it, others are open for anybody to contribute freely. It turns out we achieved enough flexibility here for people to both express themselves, build communities and organize their personal life. We don’t know what is happening inside private cirqles though but the amount of them is growing rapidly as well.
@pt We're now also working on the set of features for exploring the past. If native photo app tries to define separate experiences in your camera roll, Cirqle finds those you experienced with your friends who also have photos and videos from there. Privacy is a tricky part here, but we found a way to make it right.
I've seen Cirqle being embedded here: http://openrussia.org/post/view/... [it's Russian news publisher].
I think this is pretty interesting use-case of crowdsourcing imagery for news articles. Was it just an experiment, or something bigger? @alexbystrv what's your take on helping publishers tell better stories.
@nikitakorotaev That's right! There are dozens of web-magazines and bloggers that started using Cirqle as a way to broadcast significant events all over the globe. It work both organically and sometimes we help publishers to adopt their workflow “in the field” for truly real-time broadcasting with our app. For instance we had great amount of broadcasters from Hong Kong during the protests in September and October: https://cirqle.com/cirqles/10719 or https://cirqle.com/cirqles/10771 or https://cirqle.com/cirqles/10895. Or for instance people started funny projects like The Day With The Restaurant Chief http://www.the-village.ru/villag.... Or Nike Marathon in SF https://cirqle.com/cirqles/11367 and Moscow https://cirqle.com/cirqles/10147. Web magazines embedded cirqles about protests against current regime in Russia and against the war in Ukraine, as you mentioned. We even went to Ukraine ourselves with the lecture about the future of crowdsourced journalism. And I had an interview with Tech Crunch while driving at night in the middle of nowhere in Western Ukraine with almost no internet connection at all. That was quite a night ) Anyway when we spotted the trend, we rolled out the extended embed generator to make the app even more useful for journalists: https://cirqle.com/cirqles/4909/...
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