Photo sharing is brewing major technological breakthroughs

"Sohu It News" September 23, David Lee is the founder and managing partner of SV Angel, a famous Silicon Valley venture capital that has invested in companies such as Twitter, Foursquare, Dropbox and Airbnb, Previously worked in a number of technology companies and participated in the formation of Google's new business development department. He said in a personal blog article about his views on photo-sharing applications, pointing out that this seemingly crowded area still has huge potential to dig, and may even lead to major technological breakthroughs. The following is the original text: Photo sharing has become notorious in the entrepreneurial circle – it is widely believed that there are too many of them, and that smart entrepreneurs should do something more meaningful than "another photo-sharing app". Some self-righteous investors claim that smart entrepreneurs should use their talents to solve valuable problems. The implication is clearly that photo sharing is neither difficult nor valuable. In my opinion, the use of photos and "photo sharing" has not made me feel "aesthetic fatigue". In fact, photographs are new, cheap, large amounts of data, and cheap, large amounts of data can often create huge technological breakthroughs or lay the groundwork for it--that's my guess, but I can think of Google Earth, driverless cars, Google Many products, such as Glass, rely heavily on exploding growth of free photo data. Others think that "another photo-sharing app" is just another way of communicating or self-expression. Speaking of communication, one of my good friends pointed out that photographs are actually one of the earliest forms of communication (e.g., Ancient Egyptian murals and hieroglyphics). The daily photo-sharing website DailyBooth (Airbnb acquired) CEO Blaine Pucangi (Brian Pokorny) predicted that photos would become a new mode of communication 3 years ago. Today we have a variety of text communication methods: Mail, IM, SMS, blogs, comments, and so on. It's not hard to imagine that the same thing happens in the field of photography--we'll see a new type of communication with photos as a "unit of communication." In the aspect of self-expression, people need to use the different ways of writing in self-expression and narration. Novels, short stories, Long short magazine articles, blogs, Twitter posts, and so on, all have different narrative styles. The text can be said to be the first low-cost large amount of data, the birth of PageRank, machine learning algorithms and other software technology breakthroughs. It is not hard to imagine that photos can be played in a variety of ways with the help of technology and software. (Yau LA)