Sim City creator Will Wright has released Thred, a platform for iOS which is a blend of Facebook and Snapchat.
The app is described as a toolkit to share ideas: Take a picture, apply stickers, borders, or captions, and create a virtual moment. Speaking with Polygon, Wright compares these moments with creating a graphic novel, albeit one where the pages are someone’s life.
"My initial conception was to take the data we have about you and start turning your life it into a graphic novel," says Wright. "How do we take these different sources of data about you and turn it into a visual story or visual record?"
The concept, in a nutshell, is to create a platform more personal, more specific to the user’s life.
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The app is described as a toolkit to share ideas: Take a picture, apply stickers, borders, or captions, and create a virtual moment. Speaking with Polygon, Wright compares these moments with creating a graphic novel, albeit one where the pages are someone’s life.
"My initial conception was to take the data we have about you and start turning your life it into a graphic novel," says Wright. "How do we take these different sources of data about you and turn it into a visual story or visual record?"
The concept, in a nutshell, is to create a platform more personal, more specific to the user’s life.
Continue reading…
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