togasystems

Brilliant reply. Most people don't want to read about technical pieces and when they are presented with them, they will most likely flip past.

Smell is an interesting one. Memory along with visual is tied to smells. A lot of UI is based off of memory recognition. It would neat to see a UI based off of smell (i.e. smell flowers if hit right button)

What about the rest of our capabilities using our other senses (sound, smell, taste)? Does anybody think that we will incorporate them into future interfaces more?

Does anybody know how deep their natural language processing is? i.e. Will it understand when I ask 'List all of my Twitter followers how also follow John Doe?'

Wow. Now I might get a lot of naysayers here, but how long do you think before the keyboard becomes a niche product much like how the pen and pencil are becoming? Natural Language is a field that is going to explode.

Thanks for the idea... I am planning on making it fluid so that it will look good on mobile. I think I will make it full screen with a long sidebar on the side that can be hidden. It is never a bad idea to steal UI design from Google :)

What does everyone think of the map as the background portion of the UI? I found it to be a little cluttered.

I recently wrote similar app for cougar sightings (the cat) http://cougarreport.com . I moved the map into a separate spot.

Any opinions on which layout is the preferred way?

Wow....that is a great idea... I am going to use this method tomorrow!

Hey HN...There have been a ton of cougar sightings around where I live. I thought why not aggregate them all onto one easy to view map. Let me know your thoughts!

The app looks neat... few questions:

Did you roll your own natural language parser?

Have you thought of doing a freemium version? $2.99 might be a game killer for a lot of people.

Link to YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

You can kick it old school and use a shoebox and excel.

What does this mean for all of the group chat companies that have launched recently?

Microsoft Skype just partnered with Facebook .... and Twitter will use Apple FaceTime ...

It is quite amazing how much your download rate will go up when you make the game free. Try the freemium model.

This looks awesome. Quick question, what happens when I do not look at the page in respect to ad impressions?

Curious, how do the capture the event of the cover lifting?

I wonder why it isn't available outside of the US? Probably because a number of the services aren't available to non-US citizens.

Anybody know if Lodsys is targeting and Android, WebOS or Windows 7 developers?

Clickable link to the patent http://www.google.com/patents?id=nA2AAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&...

Quick question that is off topic, but did you do the design for that page yourself or did you purchase it off some sort of theme site? Just wondering cause I love it.

The echo cancellation algorithms, the speed of their sip like algorithm as well as the infrastructure to run their entire network is an engineering marvel. While, Skype's UI could use an update as well as some usability testing, their backend infrastructure is most definitely not a POS.

Quick spelling correction under python 'Crone' to 'Cron'

I completely agree with you. Facebook could of became one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world overnight. Maybe they will get the chance to buy it off of MSFT much like how eBay sold it off. Probably not.

Another good market to target is Hair Stylists. I just finished creating a portfolio for my girlfriend. I know there are hundreds of thousands of stylists that would love to have their own portfolio page.

Are you using wkhtmltopdf for the generation?

I may or may not have snuck into platinum hockey seats. When standing room only tickets are over $100, I couldn't imagine forking over the cash for platinum seats.

Side note: How about integrating selling your Premium seat half way through or maybe trading?

deadmau5

Amazon charges ten percent of a HIT, so they probably dropped that charge. The rest goes to the worker.

Canada's Weather Channel's app Weather Eye is by far the best one I have used. It uses different pages for cities. It has all the information I need in one spot like sun rise and fall. If you are Canadian, I highly recommend checking it out.

I have always been fascinated by BBM's popularity. Whenever somebody told me that BBM was their reason for buying a Blackberry, I always countered with text messaging is available on ALL phones. They counter with that you have to pay for text messaging and my final counter is that you already have a $60/month plan to support your Blackberry, why didn't you ask your phone company to throw in free text-messaging? They usually lower their head and buy an iPhone within three months.