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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 8:43 am
by superdezign
onion2k wrote:
Kieran Huggins wrote:When something just works (and works well) with little to no learning curve, that's impressive. Facebook does this well, so does last.fm. It's way harder than it looks!
That doesn't apply to facebook. There's loads of things about it that are completely strange to a new user. Poking and wall-to-wall being prime examples.
Concept-wise, maybe. It shouldn't be confusing to anyone who's ever used a similar community website before, though. I do believe they should get rid of poking, but if them making the website easier to use and more feature-heavy caused the ruckus that it did, imagine how many anti-Facebook-changing groups would spring up when they DELETE something.

When they re-designed Facebook, I'm sre they wanted to just kind of start from scratch and make it amazing. However, they had to keep everything that they started with. They still have the networks, which they don't want to keep, seeing how much traffic MySpace receives. That's why they opened it up more.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:17 am
by patrikG
Technology used in new and amazing ways impresses me on a website. Example: http://www.interacttenways.com/usa/sumona.asp click on "launch light"

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:51 am
by RobertGonzalez
I tried that link and it required that I have a plugin. That is not necessarily my idea of something impressive. :wink:

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:53 am
by patrikG
Do you have a fully fledged adventure park a la Disney World at home? If not, you'd have to drive there as well if you want to see it.
In short: where's the effort, mate? ;)

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:02 am
by superdezign
Everah wrote:I tried that link and it required that I have a plugin. That is not necessarily my idea of something impressive. :wink:
Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.

I'm generalizing from my own browsing experiences though.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:11 am
by onion2k
superdezign wrote:Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.
Java in the 'embedded applet' sense is dead and buried. Inline media applications come in the form of Flash and VML/Canvas with JavaScript.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:22 am
by superdezign
onion2k wrote:
superdezign wrote:Same. I thought Shockwave was something we all had, until I realized that I didn't. It seems, to me, that Shockwave has died down. Yet, Java still thrives.
Java in the 'embedded applet' sense is dead and buried. Inline media applications come in the form of Flash and VML/Canvas with JavaScript.
I meant like, games. That's the only thing I'd ever really seen Shockwave used for.