[iDC] introduction

[AlgoMantra]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Christina Xu <christina.k.xu at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


You certainly aren't, I've been waiting for a few months now.


> 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...
>

http://www.clevertexting.com/

Friend of mine has developed this new algorithm for texting,
prediction but without any dictionary underneath. Because T9 was annoying
most of the time....


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