Yup! I just getting myself ready for the NaanMap launch. I dreamed about this idea when I first witness the Zabihah.com, the reason for coming up with the NaanMap idea was simple… I need simplicity whenever I need to search anything related to niche market. Zabihah.com is still complicated and we did our best to come up with the great User Experience with NaanMap to the niche market.
On Friday December 18, 2009, at work I was discussing with my manager about the Avatar and the technologies involve in to it. I said to him… “James Cameron will for sure is setting the standards, and in my opinion Avatar is like the iPhone of the movies.. as per what I read and will see on Monday at 10:30 am”. So does now we can read the same tone here
iPhone raised the bar of Smartphones Touchscreen standard. Now I am dead sure the Avatar will do the same for movies, and any 2D from Q4 of 2010 will look like lame to us, my two-cents.
Ciao for now 
Facebook user are not all ‘tech-savvy’ or ‘power-user’ so why loot them for the sake of trying to be Open?
Hey Facebook, you missed the Twitter bandwagon, so don’t try to copy their idea by trying to putting all the “chit chat” either in Text Format, Video Format or Photo Format in front of Public, wide open.
Do educate your user, without putting the sensitive privacy related options by default “open” or in your lingo “Everyone”.
I think Facebook User Experience is very tricky and shaddy, sometime they do try to make you click on something you really should not be clicking.
Recent action is the updated “Privacy Updates” and the shady interface, take look:
What’s missing isn’t the ideas… it’s the will to execute them.
Seth Godin
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
So we have only three major social interfaces… Twitter, Facebook and MySpace – yet.
M. Mudassir Azeemi
I get acquainted with Tablet PC when I bought it way back in 2005, my first Tablet PC was Averatec C3500 it was pathetic, lame and seriously not up to the par, battery life was so-so, Tablet PC with AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+ was really a joke thrown on the face of a Joker.
Anyways, I gave up, and there is one thing I forgot to mention, I was only using Windows Journal, the built-in Notepad like software, it was not that impressive. Never knew about OneNote, and never get motivated to use this Tablet PC ever or any TabletPC whatsoever.
Here comes the “iPhone Typhoon” which changes everything about “Touch-screen” and their usability. So we came to know that fact that if things done little different they do make a big bang in the universe- of Smartphone.
Then I saw this vaporware/prototype on Gizmodo, it is known as “Microsoft Courier“, Bill you really in to this Tablet PC don’t you? So I was saying that, this Courier ignited my interest in to the Tablet PC again, why? Seeing what it can do by using “organic gestures” and “organic input medium”, and achieve something exactly what “TooDoodList” pioneer Nick Cernis is proposing – using Moleskin Notebook & Pencil (the Unlimited amount of Battery in this Notebook is for sure). I was impressed.
This impression of Courier leads me to get a Netbook. Funny, isn’t it? I was thinking that I can read the books in PDF format and do some doodling and sketches and give some feedback to my designer (yes, working on couple of cool pet-projects with some cool people in the evening after my full-time job in the morning).
However when I out of curiosity search the Craigslist and eBay about the availability of the cheap Tablet PC, to my surprise.. I actually hit the jackpot – of productivity. I bought the HP TC1100 and I am impressed mind you it is 2004 technology and it runs on Intel Centrino Processor with 1GB of RAM, and 40 GB of Hard-drive, I know it is not what you want these days. However it does the hell of a job:
I can use the Balsamiq Studio to sketch what I want to sketch, export the image of my sketches to the OneNote, put more note on it, snip the screen of a inspired website, inserted in to my OneNote, and boom! There I have a feedback ready for my designer and my team, about my new UI idea or any new small improvement on the existing screen/interface.
So now I am really waiting another “Trend-setter” movement from the Apple that may gonna re-kindle that iPod & iPhone like success in the Tablet PC Market. I know Bill, it is your pet-project, but the one who will execute it brilliantly will triumph, I am counting on your Courier however Apple by far prove themselves the trend-setter. Good luck.
Oh by the way I completed complete “Getting Real” by 37Signal with the active Highlighting on the important line on my HP TC1100 Tablet PC, and it is in the form of Slate with the detachable keyboard, very handy when you need the “Netbook” like form-factor, instantly. Also you can visit the Popular Science Magazine and check out the article written in the favor of TabletPC (someone is taking an aim on Kindle by Amazon).
Happy Tabletting!