Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)

On YouTube there is no editor. You can't create content, you upload it. They are a default CDN for video content, so not sure if it makes sense or they could ship something superior to other editors.

China believes more strongly in the potential of short video than America.

Most of the work on TikTok is derivative of other work. Whether it's dance, music, or some other work. The majority is a remix of someone else's work. That in itself is very different from other social networks. Instagram doesn't have a reshare function by design.

The second wave of social is about having people be more conscious about building a graph that best matches the needs of what they want to get from that graph. Initially, importing from your contact/address book made sense. But now we can say that was a mistake. You don't need to follow all people you know on all services.

In the West different companies own different graphs. In China it's very different.

People laughed at Snapchat, but now people see them as an example of strong graph design and unique points of view.

The most fun and clever Instagram and Snapchat filters come from the community, not the company. The company needs to find ways to unlock the creativity of the community.

Facebook is context collapse - the social graph includes so many people. TikTok's social graph isn't built on a graph of people you know which avoids the context collapse.

Wikipedia and TikTok seem miraculous. The next wave of the Internet will enable collaboration in many more field - both synchronous and asynchronous.