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nicklon |
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Mar 10 2008, 5:29 PM EDT
To me, editable text seems like one of the critical advantages that the Internet has over TV. Not everyone can participate in discussion via video and images (yet); text is simple and instant. While this article makes a valid point that graphics may get beefed-up on the net in the coming years (possibly with certain more corporate sites taking advantage of this feature), I doubt the element of text chat will ever be entirely eliminated.
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mk7718 |
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Mar 13 2008, 3:43 PM EDT
There is a continuous change going on around the Internet ... from newsgroups to IRC to blogs to services like MSN, Skype and now oovoo ... basically in the start communication was through email, interaction through newsgroups, then we moved to IRC for live communication, then over to instant messengers and now mainly to voice and video conferencing ... all this is being promoted by the easy access to increased bandwidth ... I think its the same case with PicLens ... the way I use it is that I navigate first using PicLens, which is more fun and I think faster in finding the visual content you are looking for, and then perhaps go to the concerned page to read more about the content ... but with the wider access to bandwidth, the visual content on pages is also increasing ... so I think that its only a matter of time till voice and video will become the primary medium for some sites ... after all its how we interact in the real world, so its probably more fun.
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