That seems to be a good idea, but what about individuality? If you ask me, that is one of the big reasons Myspace grew to such enormous numbers (I'm sure others would agree.) Individualism is an important aspect of life, if you have ever read something like Fahrenheit 451, you would see a prime example. If everybody's page is parsed and looks the same, well, what fun is that?
Contrary to what I mentioned above about individuality, I enjoy Facebook because it is bare and elaborate at the same time. They managed to grasp a calm template with minimum graphics. They also have put together excellent standards for how they do everything (in there API, and there CSS code.) They use fairly advanced features, and manage to keep them simplistic enough for anyone to use. If Myspace (and/or Facebook) could grasp something in the middle, not too flashy, not too bare, and yet still personalized, we would see a finite winner.
In addition to any technologies Adobe may be making for the web browser, you also must consider Adobe Apollo which is Adobe's attempt at incorporating web languages into desktop applications. You can look at it either way, this technology is promoting desktop apps, and web apps. On one hand, it is getting people with knowledge of html/css and mxml to create desktop technologies, and it is also getting people to learn web languages, so possibly in the future, that person will be making a web application.
Right now it is merely too early to tell, but my guess is that desktop applications will be around forever (have to remember games), but as internet speeds continue to speed up, you can surely expect more rich applications (also using that nifty bandwidth.)
What ever happens in the future, Google is taking over the world, one decimal place at a time.
A good reason not to do this is availibility cell tower slots and resulting customer service issue of dropped calls.
Cingular is advertising their great low drop call percentage... what they don't tell you is the number of calls that are not able to be completed. I live in a college town and at busy hours of the day I cannot make a phone call for one to two hour stretches. The thing to consider is that cell towers have a greater service area, so when you leave the WiFi hotspot and try to use the nice big cell tower, you call gets dropped because the tower can not handle your call. This makes people angry that their call got dropped by their provider and may make them want to switch.
The whole idea is that falling back onto the WiFi hotspot will give the uptime for calls. Generally the only time cell coverage will drop is when you go inside builds, which is also the place where you have the greatest chance of picking up a WiFi signal.
I can't wait for my WiMax phone:-)
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That seems to be a good idea, but what about individuality? If you ask me, that is one of the big reasons Myspace grew to such enormous numbers (I'm sure others would agree.) Individualism is an important aspect of life, if you have ever read something like Fahrenheit 451, you would see a prime example. If everybody's page is parsed and looks the same, well, what fun is that?
Contrary to what I mentioned above about individuality, I enjoy Facebook because it is bare and elaborate at the same time. They managed to grasp a calm template with minimum graphics. They also have put together excellent standards for how they do everything (in there API, and there CSS code.) They use fairly advanced features, and manage to keep them simplistic enough for anyone to use. If Myspace (and/or Facebook) could grasp something in the middle, not too flashy, not too bare, and yet still personalized, we would see a finite winner.
In addition to any technologies Adobe may be making for the web browser, you also must consider Adobe Apollo which is Adobe's attempt at incorporating web languages into desktop applications. You can look at it either way, this technology is promoting desktop apps, and web apps. On one hand, it is getting people with knowledge of html/css and mxml to create desktop technologies, and it is also getting people to learn web languages, so possibly in the future, that person will be making a web application.
Right now it is merely too early to tell, but my guess is that desktop applications will be around forever (have to remember games), but as internet speeds continue to speed up, you can surely expect more rich applications (also using that nifty bandwidth.)
What ever happens in the future, Google is taking over the world, one decimal place at a time.
i like http://www.usps.com/ now. it was lacking that.. amazingness before. think post men should have lightsabers on the 25th?
A good reason not to do this is availibility cell tower slots and resulting customer service issue of dropped calls. Cingular is advertising their great low drop call percentage... what they don't tell you is the number of calls that are not able to be completed. I live in a college town and at busy hours of the day I cannot make a phone call for one to two hour stretches. The thing to consider is that cell towers have a greater service area, so when you leave the WiFi hotspot and try to use the nice big cell tower, you call gets dropped because the tower can not handle your call. This makes people angry that their call got dropped by their provider and may make them want to switch. The whole idea is that falling back onto the WiFi hotspot will give the uptime for calls. Generally the only time cell coverage will drop is when you go inside builds, which is also the place where you have the greatest chance of picking up a WiFi signal. I can't wait for my WiMax phone :-)