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Comment on Microsoft Research’s Social Desktop by Mohan Arun L

Mohan Arun L — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:23:00 +0000

What this does is to modify file sharing by cuting down one step.

User -> uploads files to box.net -> set sharing options with the world (make it public)

User -> set sharing options with the world.

The point is that there is no monetary motivation for this unless I can count traffic to my files just the way I can count traffic to my blog or site, so I could expose a file sharing page (i think this is possible on mac) of all files shared from my PC with tags annotations and comments by others. Then may be I could stick ads on my ‘public face’ page that also shows files I have to share. This was possible with P2p tools like Winmx where you could see other files shared by a particular userid, but a user need to have signed up to winmx first, rather than just anonymously reaching a page where files are shared WITHOUT first uploading them to an intermediate web space. Something like social storage (wuala.com) but the url would be public. Think of it as an extension of a google profile page (example mine is at google.com/profiles/marun2) where I could be able to add a dynamic display of files being shared from my system - I have lot of ebooks that I never have the time to read which I could then make available to the world reaching through http, it would be like running a spare file server with directoryindex page but even non technical people coul dbe able to do it.

Comment on Userfly: The Web Usability Equivalent of Google Analytics by gaus surahman

gaus surahman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:45:52 +0000

I am still collecting information about the difference between these two services, whether they can coexist, how much burden they add to page loading. But for now at least I understand the gap Userfly tries to fill. If you have further information, I’ll be glad to hear from you. Thanks

Comment on The Mother of All Demos, 40 Years On by Michael Bernstein

Michael Bernstein — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:06:43 +0000

Dave, that is pretty incredible! Seems like there were many, many moving parts to that presentation — not the least of which was mixing video and audio from two different locations.

Comment on The Mother of All Demos, 40 Years On by Dave Hopper

Dave Hopper — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:27:10 +0000

The video mixing equipment was available. It was made by The Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA. (see Wikipedia) I remember flying a private plane to pick up a much-needed piece of video equipment at the Grass Valley Airport, quite likely for the demo. Someone from the company met me there with it. It was not bulky, just a couple of pounds. (it wasn’t the only GVG unit used in the demo) I was in software, not video. But I do remember their stuff worked very well. Definitely state-of-the-art for the time.

Now, the Eidofor (sp?) video projector….that was something else.

Comment on Microsoft Research’s Social Desktop by NanZy

NanZy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:40:09 +0000

I think now the word “social” is the same with the word “green tea” when it was booming in asia many years ago, everything was mixed with green tea flavour- cigarette, lotion, shampoo and etc.

Social Desktop? yes.. it sounds extraordinarily useful. Even though I already got too many social networkings, I am gonna try one more, Social Desktop…hahaha

Thanks..

Comment on Gmail Multiple Inboxes by Pritam Pebam

Pritam Pebam — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:19:15 +0000

It’s a cool feature.. the colored labels are a boon too… Google Labs did it great.

Comment on Wikipedia Vandalized! by ctsims

ctsims — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:04:10 +0000

I always thought that wikipedia was a fascinating case here since although their initial efforts were less broad, it’s getting to the point where I think that passionate wikipedia editors are probably providing most of the value.

Does anyone know of any good research about Wikipedia’s editor base and what the balance of anonymous vs. user edits looks like in both quantity and quality?

Comment on Usability of Language by ctsims

ctsims — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:01:36 +0000

@Daniel - Thanks for sharing the link, it’s good stuff. I guess that trying to engineer cultural creations like language is an interesting balance between the useful and the comical.

Comment on Usability of Language by Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:37:59 +0000

A better link: http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html

Comment on Usability of Language by Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:36:45 +0000

Have you read “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling”?

http://everything2.com/e2node/A%2520Plan%2520for%2520the%2520Improvement%2520of%2520English%2520Spelling