System and Method for Media-Centric and Monetizable Social Networking
A method and system connects brands, users and communities via socially shared content elements that take the form of, for example, words, pictures/images, videos and/or audio objects. The method creates a social media engagement and distribution capability of dynamic, interactive impressions linking users to users and users to brands around shared “day in the life” moments. The spectrum of reach and range of content types combined with user daily lives creates a ubiquitous new web medium of social content. The user experience created by this method and system creates a sustainable stickiness for members, capturing, creating, sharing and responding to each other interactively in any communication format, at any time, in any place and for any reason.
1 . A computer-implemented media content posting method, comprising:
assessing, by a computer processor, a network connection quality at a time of at least one of saving of a media content element, compression of the media content element, and preparation for upload of the media content element;
in accordance with the assessment;
selecting, by the processor, one of a plurality of compression algorithms; and
using the selected compression algorithm, by the processor, to generate a compressed version of the media content element; and
uploading, by the processor, the media content element as part of a social networking post.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content element is a video least 45 seconds long.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the assessing is performed as part of a processing sequence initiated in response to a user-input instruction to generate the social networking post.
4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein:
the processing sequence includes at least one of appending to the post and inserting into the post a tag selected, by a user input, from an inventory of tags, each of the tags linking to a respective media content object; and
the at least one of the appending and inserting of the tag is in accordance with a posting rule that restricts one of (a) which tags can be appended to or inserted into the post and (b) the posts to which the tag can be appended or into which the tag can be inserted.