Tenth Grade Tech Trends • Hacker News Board

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by kragen » Mon, Dec 31, 2012, 10:06 PM UTC

dpe82 wrote: post #107

TillE wrote: post #70

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> The reason Tumblr and Twitter have any popularity is that they encourage finding and following new, interesting people. Yes yes yes. There's a huge unsolved problem in the social networking space: meeting new people near you (for purposes other than dating or sex, but that too) That'll be the next truly big thing, I think. It might focus on places or events, like connecting people who are going to a concert or a ba…

Facebook used to solve this (at least for college students) with class listings. That was a really killer feature for a large part of their user base that got axed when they launched the app platform and expected an app to take its place. Problem is, of course, 50 apps took its place and none of them won.

What were class listings?

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by lewispollard » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 1:39 PM UTC

kunle wrote: post #52

rory096 wrote: post #44

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If the quality is too low, though, the benefits to communication from seeing your partner's facial features synchronized with their voice disappear, and people won't bother using it. If software identified the user's face in live video and transmitted just that at high resolution, discarding or compressing the rest, how much efficiency could be gained?

Actually an interesting idea - in this context Facebook's purchase of Face.com might seem prescient. Separately - as data gets cheaper and video chat is further optimized, video chat over 3G/4G becomes more feasible. Probably our answer to this is in the countries that have abundant bandwidth? What do high schoolers in Korea/Scandinavia use for video chat?

My girlfriend is Korean and she uses Skype for video chat.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by GFischer » Fri, Jan 04, 2013, 6:10 PM UTC

dysoco wrote: post #28

I'm also a 15 years old teenager living in Argentina, but here things are somewhat different. First, no one has a "real" smartphone, most are cheap Nokia phones with some applications for Facebook: People who have money usually buy BlackBerries, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (Being an Android fan) that I bought in Spain: but truth is smartphones are really expensive. Facebook... everything is about Facebook here: Teena…

Sadly, no one has a "real" smartphone in Argentina due to president Cristina Kirchner's import restrictions, not due to lack of income.

I live in Uruguay, right across the border, same median income basically, and a lot of people have smartphones: there's a chinese smartphone with Android made by ZTE for Movistar that is given away for free, and Samsung Galaxy Mini is also free with 15 dollar contracts. Huawei also has a very cheap smartphone.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace as well, which is the most popular smartphone as it is among the cheapest handed out by the state telephone company (Antel).

Another very popular smartphone is the very old Galaxy 3 with Android 2.1 or 2.2 (NOT SIII - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_3 )

I can second the fact that Facebook is king here, I have 3 teenager cousins and 2 nephews about dysoco's age, and they use Facebook a lot. Twitter only to follow Justin Bieber and One Direction as well :) .

I also see a lot of ask.fm links, no idea why.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by blantonl » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 2:06 AM UTC

da02 wrote: post #129

blantonl wrote: post #101

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You don't need an iPhone to use Facetime. I have a 6 and 8 yr old and both received iPad minis for Christmas and they have already FaceTimed with their friends and cousins via their new devices. And we are now spending a lot of time educating our children how to properly utilize technology to communicate with their friends. That includes a number of very firm rules and regulations.

Do the rules/regs end up being fodder for creativity on how to break said rules/regs? I would imagine that is one of the problems with having smart and clever kids.

Not if you are an active and involved parent.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by ShirtlessRod » Wed, Jan 09, 2013, 2:08 AM UTC

philwelch wrote: post #135

unimpressive wrote: post #113

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> You actually didn't mention your age. I gather from the rest of your comment, you're in high school? Yes. Honestly, every time I use a tablet the first thing on my mind is the firmware invading my privacy. The next thing though is input devices. (I'll probably end up flashing cyanogen mod.) Input devices, for most users, and even most developers, are something assumed. For desktop it's keyboard and mouse, for lapto…

Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals. Nearly everybody has fingers and spent the first couple years of their lives learning to use them. Your complaint about touch interfaces probably has more to do with buying a really shitty MP3 player than anything inherent about touch.

"Touch beats pens, keyboards, and mice in the respect that you don't have to carry around a bunch of peripherals."

That's the only way in which it beats those things, in particular keyboards. In most other aspects (e.g., usability) it falls far, far short.