The document discusses reflections on weekends, emphasizing the practice of identifying three positive events each day to foster happiness. It explores ideas for a social sharing platform focused on privacy, collaboration, and reduced external validation, while mentioning tools and technologies for media management. Additionally, it highlights the importance of time management and the impact of momentum on motivation in project viability.

1. How was your
weekend?
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How was your weekend?

2. How many of you commute?
>1 hour total / day
(At least 1 day a week)
>2 hours total / day

3. “How was your weekend?”

4. Three Good Things
Each day you reflect on 3 good things that have
happened to you and the causes
Martin Seligman

5. …..
Happy Jar

6. Thousand to one nine

7. Became a good habit

8. Two types of weekend:
After an amazing weekend,
limiting to just 9 pictures can
be tricky
After an un-eventful weekend,
forces me to find more
interesting elements in the
everyday

9. #reflectingontheweekend
while on the train into
London
December 2015

10. #ReflectingOnTheWeekend
as I sit in Heathrow
departures, waiting for my
flight to Germany

11. Social sharing

12. Flickr

13. https://benseymour.com/reflecting/
Flickr API

14. Side Passion Project

15. Quick Mock

16. Digital Ocean $10 p/m

19. If you could design your own social/family
sharing platform - what would be most
important to you?
To Ponder
In this room - (more than almost any other):
YOU CAN

20. Respect Attention: No Adverts/Tangents
(not driven by engagement metrics )
Family friendly: protection for kids
Collaborative
Reduced external validation
(no likes, no follower counts)
Privacy : No data mining

21. Editing UI

23. Digital Ocean (core) $10 p/m
Digital Ocean Image Manipulation $10++ p/m
Cloudflare : Free Tier

24. Further Story Types
vlog, alog, 360

25. Aspect Ratios
Crop to square
(considering focus point/faces)
Performance optimisation
Video
360
Growing Media Manipulation Needs

26. Side Project rules
Time is the scarcest resource - time
saving makes the project more viable.
Momentum can have a big impact on
motivation
Also - budget!

28. Media management and manipulation (Cloudinary)*
ar_1:1 : crop to square
g_auto : automatic intelligent cropping
(auto face/object detection!)
q_auto : auto compression
f_auto : auto image format
vc_auto : auto video encoding
ar_1:1 : video aspect ratio change
(with intelligent cropping!)
360 video

29. * disclaimer:
I liked Cloudinary so much I
bought joined the company

30. Monthly Costs
AWS : Free Tier (Beanstalk, S3)
MongoDB Atlas : Free Tier (512MB)
Cloudinary : Free Tier (25 units)
Cloudflare : Free Tier (inc. SSL)
$0

31. When I asked friends and family
and friends what they honestly
thought was missing:
Multi device workflows
Multi-lingual
Hard of hearing support
Colour blind support
Crap poor connectivity

32. Original e_simulate_colorblind:protanopia e_assist_colorblind:8

34. Auto Video transcription
Can be baked into video

35. Mother(’s) tongue

36. webspeedtest.cloudinary.com
q_auto,f_auto

37. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes…
Is it really worth all this time…?

39. “The stories that we tell about our lives,
become the story of our lives”

40. @bseymourhttps://storyus.lifehttps://cloudinary.com
Have a great weekend