Comments on: The future of your social software is already here

By: Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries

Friday Link Round Up « ellie <3 libraries — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:15:44 +0000

[...] The need to design for personal value before social value at Bokardo [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:27:27 +0000

Interesting discussion between Josh and bc.

By: Jeremy Horn

Jeremy Horn — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:03:28 +0000

Not exactly 'here'.. but definitely on the way. Personal value is achieved through the increasing control and accessibility of and to one's own data and creative content online! As a matter of fact, every day more and more products come out that provide for new relationships between people and between products that can be seen to be increasingly expanded peoples' control and personal value achieved through these newly emergent relationships. Through these inter-product relationships people are able to better address and solve their own problems and achieve their unique goals. The basis for what I see as the ability of people to draw and create their own personal value from existing and new online products is Modular Innovation. I just talked about this concept recently in my latest blog post. Read hereâ€¦ Modular Innovation 101 Enjoy! Jeremy HornThe Product Guyhttp://tpgblog.com

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:15:33 +0000

~bc – who’s saying they’re the same? I was simply pointing out that iPhones were not the first commercially available multi-touch screen.

And either way it doesn’t matter, because as you mention touch screens (even multi-touch) have been around for way longer.

Which only serves to prove Gibson all the more right…

By: Humbleweaver

Humbleweaver — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:19:27 +0000

Many years ago, there were(or there still are) refrigerators that can order online from a local grocery for grocery items one already needs. I thought it was too early for its time, or just didn’t like the idea of a machine deciding what I need to buy, especially grocery items.

Now I thought to myself, what if the refrigerator can create the list, post it online and let my (private) social network have access to grocery items I need. They can have an idea of what they can bring next time they visit.

By: ~bc

~bc — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:46:22 +0000

TouchÃ©. If $3,000, single-purpose, suitcase-sized devices from ’05 are the same as pocket-sized $399 multi-purpose pocket computers from ’07. Corrected I stand: long time.

USB existed prior to the iMac too… but it takes proper application before it’s truly available. Which I think goes back to your point: apply only when application is useful.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:10:39 +0000

~bc, from the wikipedia entry on multi-touch:

"The first commercially available product using multi-touch technology was the Lemur Input Device, a professional multi-media controller from French company JazzMutant. It was launched in 2005."

By: ~bc

~bc — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:12:57 +0000

Josh, you know I love to poke holes in your analogies. I think it’s interesting to point out while touchscreens have been available for a long time, ones that accept multiple inputs simultaneously (multi-touch) have not. They have only been seen in laboratory conditions until the iPhone. You could say that they hadn’t been evenly distributed yet though.

More to the point of your post: a quick design tip – don’t solve problems you don’t have yet. I had a similar discussion about HTML email the other day: what problem is it trying to solve?