I love these new projects for building web based presentations. Back in 2003 I had to take a speech course and quickly got sick of every presentation where someone would be abusing PowerPoint with an abundance of typewriter and laser animations. I started writing all my presentations in HTML/Javascript and editing together compilation videos to stand out. Looking back it was a great way to practice the craft.
This project is just too cool and looks like a great way to get exposed to different libraries. Also sounds like a great idea for a competition website.
I added 'Under 500MB' but I'm not sure if HN lets me reorder the poll options so its at the bottom. Seriously 500MB is considered unlimited in the UK? I think in the US a lot of 'unlimited' plans start throttling at 5GB.
My fiance has a 2GB cap and I have unlimited, she went over one month and I couldn't figure out how cause I didn't think I used that much and I stream Pandora/Rhapsody/Sirius on my phone quite often. I finally checked my usage statement and was shocked to see I average 2.5 to 3.5GB. I think my max was over 6GB one month due to streaming Netflix for a few hours.
It's okay cause IE is now all about embracing web standards and we know have access to all of the bleeding edge web technologies...oh wait SVG has been around (in other browsers and plugins) for a decade :P
While true I do like the convenience that I could potentially write CoffeScript on a machine that doesn't have it installed and still get the compiled Javascript.
I wonder if my $5 for 200 msg will be grandfathered like my unlimited data plan. Its the perfect amount since with having other communications platforms I only use around 180 sms a month.
If the features of this library continue to expand I can see this being a very powerful tool. As lot of other commentators have pointed out despite having so many modern browser solutions a lot of large corporate environments are slow to update. Quite often this is because they have large line-of-business apps that are written to target certain browsers (especially if ActiveX is heavily used) as well as having a culture where even a version bump in what web browser is used takes a committee and months of approval.
I ran into this problem years ago when I was interning at one of the major auto manufactures. I needed to provide web-based charting but was unable to get approval to use an open source toolkit. I ended up having to write my own library and did so using SVG. It worked no problem on the Solaris workstations running old-school Mozilla (even still had the old Netscape icon) but for the PCs running IE6 I had to get approval to install the Adobe plugin.
I have been wondering the same thing. Learning about Spotify (and finding out it wasn't available in the US) led me to a paid Rhapsody account. However if the UI is better and selection about the same I'd probably jump in a hearbeat.
When I first heard of Spotify I was super excited (but it was quickly followed by disappointment when I learned that it wasn't in the U.S. yet). It did lead me to subscribing to Rhapsody which I have been pretty happy with. For those who have used both what does Spotify offer over Rhapsody (better UX, breadth of selection, etc.)?
It seems to me (perhaps due to broad generalization) that the sort of user that this would target wouldn't be able to easily load java apps on their phone (I remember having an old moto slivr that required a micro usb cable and a $20 piece of software to sync anything). Also would they even have the data plan to benefit from it (besides being billed at $0.xx a kb)?
I understand that its really "Facebook for Every (non iOS, Win7, Android, etc.) Phone" but doesn't the name sort of imply that its the same app that can be downloaded for every phone? (I know sort of a nit-picky comment)
In hunting for some free icon sets for a project I actually came across one that I haven't seen before. Looks decent but requires some photoshop work (mainly changing filters) to modify the colors from the default purple gradient.
The first thing when I thought when seeing the Smart Covers was "this looks familiar." And then I remembered an article I read a few days prior on Apple's tablet computer history (http://liquidpubs.com/blog/2010/11/08/apple-their-tablet-com...) If you look starting at the 'Second Figaro Competition 1990' you will see various prototypes that have a very similar looking cover. I always find it interesting when you can see decades old influences for products.
In my experience at the Detroit one marketers/social media people made up the majority. Also IMHO was one of the more poorly planned events that I have been to.
When my parents moved from the US to Japan several years ago I showed them Skype. Now they use Skype more than I ever have and even bought a netbook because they could use the camera for video calls.
Had the same thing except I found out about reddit from HN. On occasion I will still checkout reddit is sort of like those grocery checkout magazines, not going to read it for long but it passes time when your bored.
I think your completely right. I was once talking with an angel about one of the companies they had invested in and got the reply "I don't know what their doing I'm just an investor." Whether this is a good thing or not is up to discussion.
While an interesting idea I know I wouldn't use it if it was an ad. Despite the problem of my sample images trying to sell to me it would be annoying when trying to mockup a design (with images that randomly have undesired colors, patterns, etc.)