An interesting video

[Antonio-76]

Here's an interesting video I found on one blog:

http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/08/did-you-know.html


For me the most spectacular part is the computer in 2059 :)

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[Andre Klapper]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.08.2009, 10:07 +0300 schrieb Anton Kerezov:
> Here's an interesting video I found on one blog:
>
> http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/08/did-you-know.html

Please describe at least basically what it is about and how it is
related to usability.

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[Antonio-76]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47@...> wrote:

Please describe at least basically what it is about and how it is
related to usability.

This is a video that basically shows the world trends of computer and Internet advances. That would definitely be a warning about the increased time a user is spending in front of his computer and thus the Usability team should make everything possible to make the user interact more with living not virtual friends. That of course is not a short term "goal" (if it is even considered as such) but something that should be addressed as early as possible so that our childern would not be boxed in rooms and separated from the world with music players, video games, ect. There was a study in the UK about a group of children that had to leave their ipods, TVs, PC and all kinds of gaming consoles for a week. The most stunning to me were the facts that one of the children said that without his mp3 he could actually hear the noise of the wind in trees and another said that the feeling of not having all it's gadgets is rather strange...

Another point of view would be that the desktop should be more web oriented and all of today's services like facebook and twitter should be easily accessible from within the desktop (e.g. If I want to upload a picture to facebook that would be presented as an option in  the context menu [maybe plugin?] and the progress would show as ordinary file copy dialog).
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[Dokuro-2]

Anton wrote:
> Another point of view would be that the desktop should be more web oriented
> and all of today's services like facebook and twitter should be easily
> accessible from within the desktop (e.g. If I want to upload a picture to
> facebook that would be presented as an option in  the context menu [maybe
> plugin?] and the progress would show as ordinary file copy dialog).

that would be the best, that way the only time people would have to
visit the web page might be just at account creation; i don't think
web-masters would like that (if it got popular) since the fact that
people access the web-site is what gives them $$.

EX. this is a program that allows access to X (facebook, twitter,
identi.ca, etc) without going to the web page.

It could even have a better interface jejeje...
and no adds :),
would it be legal,
would the web-masters allow this within their licenses...

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[Andre Klapper]

Am Freitag, den 14.08.2009, 08:37 +1930 schrieb Dokuro:

> Anton wrote:
> > Another point of view would be that the desktop should be more web oriented
> > and all of today's services like facebook and twitter should be easily
> > accessible from within the desktop (e.g. If I want to upload a picture to
> > facebook that would be presented as an option in  the context menu [maybe
> > plugin?] and the progress would show as ordinary file copy dialog).
>
> that would be the best, that way the only time people would have to
> visit the web page might be just at account creation; i don't think
> web-masters would like that (if it got popular) since the fact that
> people access the web-site is what gives them $$.
>
> EX. this is a program that allows access to X (facebook, twitter,
> identi.ca, etc) without going to the web page.

This all partially already exists. There's e.g. conduit in GNOME.
Also see the last two years of debating the "Online Desktop".

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[Antonio-76]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47@...> wrote:

This all partially already exists. There's e.g. conduit in GNOME.
Also see the last two years of debating the "Online Desktop".

Conduit is definitely the right way for things but it is an application. I'm talking about direct integration in the file browser somehow so that you could interact without using that app at all but just the documents and folders (at least one level of complexity is removed). I also don't like all of the ideas of Online Desktop because people will always need some applications that need to run fast and web is not the way to do that (even if they only save files online). Not to mention that a lot of corporations will simply not prefer it because of privacy concerns.
 

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[Calum Benson]

On 13 Aug 2009, at 14:14, Andre Klapper wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 14.08.2009, 08:37 +1930 schrieb Dokuro:
>>
>> EX. this is a program that allows access to X (facebook, twitter,
>> identi.ca, etc) without going to the web page.
>
> This all partially already exists. There's e.g. conduit in GNOME.
> Also see the last two years of debating the "Online Desktop".

And there are many examples of such apps on other platforms... one I  
sometimes use on OS X is EventBox, which allows access to Facebook,  
Twitter, Identi.ca, Flickr, OneRiot, Reddit, and Digg, in addition to  
arbitrary RSS feeds.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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