Comments on: Rich Web http://www.metafluence.com/rich-web/ This is beyond marketing, it is manipulation Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:44:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: In search of a better way to design at Metafluence http://www.metafluence.com/rich-web/#comment-894 In search of a better way to design at Metafluence Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:11:15 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/rich-web#comment-894 [...] This is a fantastic time to be involved in this conversation because these are the formative years of our practice as web developers. As an industry, we are in the middle creating the tools and methodology for rich interactive experiences. It is the lessons we’re learning right now that will guide future generations of web developers. Rich interactive experiences have been evolving for over a decade now. YouTube was just purchased for $1.65 billion. All of the major TV players are gearing up for a fight with YouTube. The only trump card TV has over YouTube and the other internet video is quality, which means YouTube and the Google crew are going to working hard on increasing quality (is this where Google’s large purchases of dark fiber come into play?). Those who solve the problems facing the standardization of rich interactive development practices will be to the Rich Web what the Jeffery Zeldmans and Molly Holzschlags were to the Web 2.0 movement. [...] [...] This is a fantastic time to be involved in this conversation because these are the formative years of our practice as web developers. As an industry, we are in the middle creating the tools and methodology for rich interactive experiences. It is the lessons we’re learning right now that will guide future generations of web developers. Rich interactive experiences have been evolving for over a decade now. YouTube was just purchased for $1.65 billion. All of the major TV players are gearing up for a fight with YouTube. The only trump card TV has over YouTube and the other internet video is quality, which means YouTube and the Google crew are going to working hard on increasing quality (is this where Google’s large purchases of dark fiber come into play?). Those who solve the problems facing the standardization of rich interactive development practices will be to the Rich Web what the Jeffery Zeldmans and Molly Holzschlags were to the Web 2.0 movement. [...]

]]> By: sabrina http://www.metafluence.com/rich-web/#comment-133 sabrina Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:30:31 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/rich-web#comment-133 I am sure that I have barely scratched the surface of the depth the internet has to offer. As a consumer I am deterred by having to register or pay for anything that I can't try out first. I like the web because I surf anywhere that interests me, if it doesn't interest me I don't have to go there. Unfortunatly I am surrounded by people who don't surf the web. Plus the things I find interesting are hard to describe and report. Most reactions are- that is interesting or funny in a "you are so strange" way. I can name 30 people I see every week who don't know what youtube is. Although we had some 19 year old guys over and they each had suggestions of funny clips I had to check out. As revolutionary as the internet is it seems that anyone over 30 around here don't get into it. It takes a while to get comfortable "asking" the internet for help (i.e. directions, phone numbers, photos, random triva.) It took a year of having highspeed for me to get comfortable looking up stuff. My husband still complains that he forgets what he wanted to look up when he sits down to the computer. If he had a Palm Pilot he would have a place to take notes to remember... but my point is still there are many people who do not see the web as the next great thing. It seems redundant in their busy lives and certainly things like youtube are too trival to really draw them in. When it makes life easier, i.e. paying bills and ordering products they do it but beyond that they don't indulge. That said, it astounds me the speed that a joke can travel. It makes me very happy to see people sharing laughs. I just had the privelage of seeing and hearing my parents talk through a web cam. Wonderful experience. They have one for me, and I am so excited to have a form of visual communication available to me. I can't wait to use it! Between now and when the give it to me (Chirstmas) I will be developing eloquent lines of thought, without my clumsy spelling to hold me back- who knows?! I am sure that I have barely scratched the surface of the depth the internet has to offer. As a consumer I am deterred by having to register or pay for anything that I can’t try out first. I like the web because I surf anywhere that interests me, if it doesn’t interest me I don’t have to go there.
Unfortunatly I am surrounded by people who don’t surf the web. Plus the things I find interesting are hard to describe and report. Most reactions are- that is interesting or funny in a “you are so strange” way. I can name 30 people I see every week who don’t know what youtube is. Although we had some 19 year old guys over and they each had suggestions of funny clips I had to check out.
As revolutionary as the internet is it seems that anyone over 30 around here don’t get into it. It takes a while to get comfortable “asking” the internet for help (i.e. directions, phone numbers, photos, random triva.) It took a year of having highspeed for me to get comfortable looking up stuff. My husband still complains that he forgets what he wanted to look up when he sits down to the computer. If he had a Palm Pilot he would have a place to take notes to remember… but my point is still there are many people who do not see the web as the next great thing. It seems redundant in their busy lives and certainly things like youtube are too trival to really draw them in. When it makes life easier, i.e. paying bills and ordering products they do it but beyond that they don’t indulge.

That said, it astounds me the speed that a joke can travel. It makes me very happy to see people sharing laughs.

I just had the privelage of seeing and hearing my parents talk through a web cam. Wonderful experience. They have one for me, and I am so excited to have a form of visual communication available to me. I can’t wait to use it! Between now and when the give it to me (Chirstmas) I will be developing eloquent lines of thought, without my clumsy spelling to hold me back- who knows?!

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