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Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service designDesktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service designPosted Aug 18, 2011 21:53 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design by nye Parent article: Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Completely agreed. A couple of things that jumped out, though: For example, an app could tag the Twitter tweets that you have seen on a particular device, so that they don't have to be downloaded on a different device.We had this 25 years ago, with messages longer than 140 characters and with so very much less buzzwordiness, and we called it '.newsrc'. Everything old is new again... Things in the real world that have not been connected to the internet, like toilets, pets, or bathroom scales, are headed in that direction.Perhaps I'm just a Luddite throwback, but these seem like perfect examples of the sorts of things one would never ever want to be Internet-connected. (But perhaps I am just a throwback: I don't use the 'cloud' at all.) Continuity is another important element, so that users get the same experience on different devices.This is... not something the free software community is good at, at least not if different pieces of software are involved.
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Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:17 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Plasma Active? 95% same code on desktop/netbook/tablet/mobile/settop; write one widget which works on all those; etc... Actually way more ambitious than the most ambitious commercial projects around and actually very successful in *delivering*.
Desktop Summit: Claire Rowland on service design Posted Aug 29, 2011 16:06 UTC (Mon) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]
>> Things in the real world that have not been connected to the internet,
>> like toilets, pets, or bathroom scales, are headed in that direction.
> Perhaps I'm just a Luddite throwback, but these seem like perfect examples
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Withings-WBS01-Bathroom-Scale-Bla...">Wifi connected bathroom scales</a> that allow you to track weight over time are all the rage. I can see an embedded "pet passport" tracking vaccinations and owner tag information being really useful. As to toilets: I have seen water monitoring systems that measure water usage for the household to prevent leaks that can reduce water usage by up to 30%. Doesn't' sound that unreasonable...
Dave.
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