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Friday, 18 May 2007
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Yeah the locking of phones AND the diversity of networks (as in CDMA, TDMA, and GSM) makes the US cellular landscape much different. I can't take my great Nokia GSM phone that worked on AT&T Wireless and use it on Verizon because Verizon runs on a CDMA network. (Not that long ago there were still sections of the USA that only had AMPS coverage as well. I don't know if that has changed or not.)
What I often see is "The following phones are supported' and then it lists them with links to pictures. It still means knowing what phone you have, but at least gives you some visual cues that might help the user figure it out.
I don't think anyone has come up with a good way to convey what runs on what. That is the challenge with a heterogeneous environment - it requires users to know what they have. It gets even messier than just knowing what phone you have - OK someone has a Treo. Is it running Palm OS or Win CE?
Cell phones are still in the high geek era, even as everyone uses them. I could digress into general phone UI and systems we navigate with them, but I will try and stay on topic.
Perhaps other people have better ideas on how to explain what phones run Java.
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Even the providers make the brand of phone less apparent or conscious. I was looking at Sprint's page and they said "Sprint phone xxxx...made by Motorola". But yeah I'm a geek and it took me forever to remember the model of my last Nokia phone, and in that case I at least knew the brand. The question is how do you change the wording to convey meaning across the geek barrier. What do you reference? Phone name - "Chocolate" "razr", provide pictures, what? That is the challenge.
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Ok...if I could favorite on Jaiku I think I'd favorite this ku
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But both work with imified, and you can just directly IM twitter@twitter.com (I know it works on gtalk, not sure what other IM agents are supported.) For the longest time I just used im as my Twitter client.
That said, growl support is awesome. That is what made me move to a specific client on twitter. (Juhu was already the best for Jaiku) Thursday, 17 May 2007
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Yep. You get to see all the comments posted on the channel.
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kuing? So the posts could be kus (pronounced like coos - like the sound a dove makes)
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thanks for the transcript. Apparently the banning was for sexual ageplay - which is illegal in places in the EU even when it is "virtual depiction" - but there was RL stuff too which is a problem everywhere. I appreciate the extra info. International laws are something that will have to be dealt with (beyond ageplay). It will be interesting to see how that bridge gets crossed.
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It is true, that SL does have to protect itself from being law suited out of existence. Those not involved in SL can misconstrue avie acts as RL acts so I was weighing the SL blog vs. the potential for the press to misconstrue. There are lots of things that are illegal in some parts of the world that go on in SL, so the implications of banning on assumption are a concern. However child porn, drugs and terrorism are the ones that are most likely to cause a shutdown, and the ones most likely to draw a strong (defensive) reaction from LL. I wouldn't want to be the one who had to call the shots here.
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The SL blog post only says "... ARD, which had captured images of two avatars, one that resembled an adult male and another that resembled a child, engaged in depicted sexual conduct" That is simulated age play. The paragraph ends with "both avatars were banned". There is no mention in the paragraph that those users had any RL porn (of any sort) on them. They even say they cannot find the supposed real photos in the asset DB. If there was real porn found they should have mentioned it in that paragraph discussing banning. As it is written it sounds like banning for ageplay avie photos.
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My guess on this is that when Jaiku pings the url to verify that it is an RSS feed it too is getting a lolcat page instead of RSS and rejects the link as "Not RSS". Keep trying.
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There is a mobile version for some phones. (Link on bottom of jaiku page or here: http://jaiku.com/mobile )
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The SL piece does make the pictures seem uncertain - appears to depict, but the ones they banned were not banned for rl pictures but for ageplay http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/09/accusations-regarding-child-pornography-in-second-life/
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I do wish they had done a bit more "setting the facts straight". There current path of reaction seems to send the message which says "Yes there was kiddy porn" when really there was not. There were consenting adults role playing roles that many may find objectionable, but is not illegal.
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I'm seeing it too, but maybe it is a cross pollination thing. A joins, adds their twitter friends and some Jaiku friends. Jaiku friends go to A's jaiku page to add them back and notes some new people (e.g Hey, they have an SL avie as their icon!) and then adds them.
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
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