<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Christina Xu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christina.k.xu@gmail.com">christina.k.xu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I feel like I'm not the only researcher circling Facebook like a vulture, anxiously awaiting its grand fall to see what will happen and what brings it about and how users deal with the mass exodus. That's going to make a great conference some day.</blockquote>
<div><br>You certainly aren't, I've been waiting for a few months now. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But the QWERTY example is an interesting one, since, I think, we are beginning to see a shift away from it already. As texting becomes more and more prominent, large numbers of people are learning to type using the cell phone keyboard + T9 in addition to texting, which is certainly as radically different from QWERTY as Dvorak. In this example and in that of the shift from typewriter to word processor, it seems that the essential catalyst for such drastic changes is the introduction of a "new" system: while Dvorak is seen as simply an alternative to QWERTY, cell phones and their crazy keyboards offer a functionality (portability) that normal laptops don't offer. Of course, with the iPhone and whatnot, QWERTY is definitely making a comeback in the mobile device world, but it'll be interesting to see how this plays out...<br>
</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://www.clevertexting.com/">http://www.clevertexting.com/</a> <br><br>Friend of mine has developed this new algorithm for texting,<br>prediction but without any dictionary underneath. Because T9 was annoying most of the time....<br>
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