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By Alex Guyot ("Ghee(As in "geesegoose")-yo")

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The Verge On The The Snapchat 7.0 Update

May 2, 2014

The Verge has an excellent profile of the new Snapchat 7.0 update, including quotes from an interview they did with Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel.

The update is the biggest since Snapchat's inception, adding both text chat and video calling capabilities, but Snapchat has implemented both of these in an innovative, unconventional manner.

The whole article is excellent, but here are a few of my favorite excerpts:

To Spiegel, the reason none of his friends video call each other on a daily basis is because “calling” was born of an era where software needed to emulate real-world tools. “What does a phone look like without a ringer?” he asks. Skeuomorphic metaphors have always been a part of computing, Spiegel says, because that’s how we all learned to use computers. “But,” he says, “the biggest constraint of the next 100 years of computing is the idea of metaphors.”

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He sums up his idea more neatly. “For Snapchat, the closer we can get to ‘I want to talk to you’ — that emotion of wanting to see you and then seeing you — the better and better our product and our view of the world will be.” To Spiegel, the future of communication isn’t about rethinking or upgrading phone calls as Skype, FaceTime, and Hangouts have done. It’s about imagining a future that leaves the phone metaphor behind entirely.

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“We’re trying to get rid of these weird boxes that we put media into and get to the essence of conversation — that we’re both here,” says Spiegel.

If we weren't sure why Evan Spiegel turned down Facebook's $3 billion acquisition offer last year, this update and The Verge's interview make it pretty clear. Spiegel doesn't want to make boatloads of money, he wants to make a true difference in the way people communicate.

Snapchat 7.0 is the first step toward that goal, the first attempt to break free from the constraints of the “phone call” metaphor. I really like the implementations of these new features, and I'm excited to see what Snapchat does next.

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(Just basic tasks?)

(Hard cube tasks too?)

(Here on accident?)


legend!

May your name be forever emblazoned on the Bonk leaderboard.

Truly, thank you for exploring this website.

Now go forth and make Easter eggs!


(Again?)


To do (as well) :

  • Solve the cube in 4 moves or less
  • Scramble the cube by at least 50 turns, flip it, and reset it (for more fun: solve before resetting)

You probably need a touch device for the rest of these. If you switch devices, long-press the Easter egg to restore your progress.

  • Make it to level 9 in Bonk
  • ?????????????
  • Make it to level 10 in Bonk
  • ?????????????
  • Make it to level 11 in Bonk

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(Miss victory?)


Congrats!

You found all the Easter eggs.

If you enjoyed this, let me know and then go play Goose Game (not an ad, Goose Game just rocks).


(Finished?)

(Thirsty for pain?)

(Again?)


To do :

  • Flip the cube
    Hint?(Double-click the cube)
  • Learn pronunciation
    Hint?(Of the author's last name)
  • Send an important message
    Hint?(The message is "yo")
  • Locate the troublesome goose
    Hint?(Ghee I wonder where it coule be?)
  • Anger the goose
    Hint?(Honk til it's red in the bill)
  • Shoot a rainbow
    Hint?(Look reeeeal low)
  • Shoot some stars
    Hint?(Above the rainbow)
  • Find out what is happening
    Hint?(First shoot lots of stars)
  • Make a full commitment
    Hint?(Get help understanding)
  • Have fun
    Hint?(You have to really want it)
    (Or, find a page that doesn't exist)
  • Play with a slinky
    Hint?(Ask questions after game over)
    (Or, poke around the colophon)
  • Get insulted (at least three times)
    Hint?(Ask the right question, wait for enough answers)

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(Got it now?)

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(Over it?)