Myspace to Facebook - It Can All Slip Away

[Orbert]

The Mini is kinda what started me thinking about that.  If it's big enough to do what people want a tablet/PC to do, yet small enough to truly be portable, then all you need is to somehow incorporate tunes and telephony, and you're there.  They're still trying to find the right size to make it work.  But as I said, I don't think it'll really happen until it's a given that people carry a tablet with them the way everyone has cell phones now.

[black_biff_stadler]

iPad mini announced today.

I'm gonna sound like a cynical asshole for saying this but please explain to my ignorant ass how that differs from an iPhone that doesn'tt make calls.

[Implode]

It's bigger.

Yup. That's it.

[Cedar redaC]

An iPhone that doesn't make calls....

Don't they already make one and call it the iPod Touch?

[DebraKadabra]

[cramx3]

Ipod Touch < Ipad Mini < Ipad

All the same thing except size.

[DebraKadabra]

I think they'll finally figure out a way to integrate everything into a single device.  They've been trying for years, but a tablet (or iPad or whatever) is to big for people who just want tunes and/or a phone, and a phone/mp3 device is too small for people who want an actual screen.  At some point, all of these items will more or less become "required", and if you do have to carry them all, they might as well be combined into a single device.  There are people already who don't go anywhere without their iPad/laptop, and if you're gonna carry that, it might as well have your tunes and telephony built in.

That's definitely how it's looking.  Of course, we COULD go the Futurama route with the eyePhone...

Google glasses??

[kári]

For example; Movies are traditionally filmed ( in regards to camera paths) in a horizontal format. By horizontal I mean that the cameras generally pan let to fight, as well as up and down occasionally. Directors utilizing 3D filming technology are expressing that for the technology to be the most effective, cameras will now have to begin panning along the z axis more frequently, and basically be adopted as the the format to film.

Pretty sure almost every movie is filmed using one or several of these in most scenes:

[black_biff_stadler]

I like the cut of your jib.

[Chino]

Welp... I just had a 45 second advertisement play as I was viewing a profile... Facebook is now on my shitlist.

[Ben_Jamin]

Facebook also has the mobile element that Myspace never had the chance to utilize. Having something so massive in the palm of your hand makes for a deadly combo. In order for something to dethrone facebook, something needs to come out that either does what facebook does but way better, or have an element that everyone wants that facebook lacks. I don't see anything that can be improved upon/replaced in either of those options.

Google+ was a good attempt, but didn't bring anything new to the table that justified switching.

All it'll take is a dislike button.

[kirksnosehair]

I think they'll finally figure out a way to integrate everything into a single device.  They've been trying for years, but a tablet (or iPad or whatever) is to big for people who just want tunes and/or a phone, and a phone/mp3 device is too small for people who want an actual screen.  At some point, all of these items will more or less become "required", and if you do have to carry them all, they might as well be combined into a single device.  There are people already who don't go anywhere without their iPad/laptop, and if you're gonna carry that, it might as well have your tunes and telephony built in.

When these portable devices are powerful enough (and compatible enough) to fit in the palm of your hand, but plug in to some kind of dock on your office desk where you can put them up on an LCD and have a keyboard, pointing device, printers, etc, that will be the tipping point.  And it's coming sooner than most people think.


The desktop PC will be dead in 10 years.


Tablet users:  Check this out


Cloud-based Windows 7 Professional, with Microsoft Office productivity apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat and more.  Right on your tablet.  And the performance ain't bad at all.  This is where everything's going. 

[cramx3]

You can do most of that already its just about getting more juice into the phones or tablets so that they don't feel slow ascompared to a PC. .. we are getting there.

[Implode]

Facebook also has the mobile element that Myspace never had the chance to utilize. Having something so massive in the palm of your hand makes for a deadly combo. In order for something to dethrone facebook, something needs to come out that either does what facebook does but way better, or have an element that everyone wants that facebook lacks. I don't see anything that can be improved upon/replaced in either of those options.

Google+ was a good attempt, but didn't bring anything new to the table that justified switching.

All it'll take is a dislike button.

The dislike button is good in theory, but awful in practice. It could turn in Reddit. Dislikes could start so many shitstorms.

[robwebster]

Not sure it's even good in theory - frankly, if you dislike something so much that you have to express it, you can leave a comment.

Facebook is, functionally, a social network. The infrastructure's there to promote social interaction - which is in itself the reason they've made it very easy to casually celebrate one another's outbursts, and a little harder to casually punish each other. There's already enough meanness, negativity, anti-social behaviour on Facebook. Absolutely, you should be able to express a withering opinion on what your mates have written, but for the system to actively encourage nonchalant meanness would be beyond stupid. Because a "dislike" button, at its core, would just be an easy way to make someone feel bad without having to confront them. Completely against the ethos of the websites. For all it's flaws, Facebook's there to promote discussion and interaction, not to put it in front of a jury.

The way it is now, anyone who has an issue has to put their head above the parapet, and expose a little bit of themselves as well. They don't get to sit around in a comfortable tower, sniping away. That's a good thing. You're still able to disagree, you just have to mean it - and maybe, this way, with your profile picture staring back out at you, it'll make you think about the way you express it.

[Implode]

Rob, you've done it again.

[Chino]

Facebook is beginning to become unusable and a real pain in the ass to look at. Automatically playing videos is where I draw the line. I wish I had more friends on G+

[BlobVanDam]

wtf is with all of those ads? I've never seen Facebook look like that with all of those randomly placed ads and videos. :S

edit: ok, I'm pretty sure that's Photoshopped, right?

[kirksnosehair]

I've never seen that many ads on FaceBook

[Chino]

I'm being completely serious. I'm using the latest version of Chrome. Youtube has been giving me shit too. It will play an advertisement (with audio) off to the side while I'm watching a video.

[BlobVanDam]

I'm guessing this all started after you won the Spanish lottery? Or after that website kindly informed you that your computer had spywares?

Facebook shouldn't look like that. I'd be doing a scan right now.

[TheVoxyn]

1. Install addblock plugin
2.
3. Profit

[TheVoxyn]

That said, I agree with Blobbo here. When I go to facebook at another pc without adblock, I still don't get ads on facebook (just the small ones to the right).

[Chino]

I had a buddy recommend the adblock plugin and that's when shit started to really get heavy 

[TheVoxyn]

I guess you have some weird stuff on your pc then. I'm so happy with adblock, even those annoying youtube commercials are gone.

[snapple]

The desktop PC will be dead in 10 years.

Couldn't disagree more. The PC gaming market is too big to let desktops die.

[Chino]

Here's what I'm dealing with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=820VYKc9BDg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So... what do you guy recommend?

[BlobVanDam]

The video is private. Can't see anything.

[Orbert]

That said, I agree with Blobbo here. When I go to facebook at another pc without adblock, I still don't get ads on facebook (just the small ones to the right).

I'm on Facebook using both Chrome (mostly) and IE (sometimes) and never get anything more than the little ads down the right side, which are easy enough to ignore.

[Chino]

The video is private. Can't see anything.

Balls. Oh well. It was my first upload attempt from my new phone. Video came out 90 degrees counter clockwise anyway 

[BlobVanDam]

The video is private. Can't see anything.

Balls. Oh well. It was my first upload attempt from my new phone. Video came out 90 degrees counter clockwise anyway 

You can change the video to unlisted or public so we can see it.

[Chino]

The video is private. Can't see anything.

Balls. Oh well. It was my first upload attempt from my new phone. Video came out 90 degrees counter clockwise anyway 

You can change the video to unlisted or public so we can see it.

Can't do anything about the orientation though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=820VYKc9BDg

[robwebster]

That is almost definitely being caused by dubious software. Lots and lots of it. I would scan the crap out of that machine, Chino.

[BlobVanDam]

That is almost definitely being caused by dubious software. Lots and lots of it. I would scan the crap out of that machine, Chino.

I wouldn't. I'd take it out back and give it the old yeller treatment to make sure none of my files catch computer rabies.

[Chino]

I reinstalled adblock on Chrome and it seems to be doing a good job.

*edit*

totally resolved.