Thanks. The press release information in the NPR report submitted as the link here hardly begins to describe the study design. The link to the study suggests which issues in study design
to look at to see just how generalizable these results may be. With the sample size and length of study described here, I'd look for a lot more replication over populations from more countries studied over longer periods before reaching the same conclusion as the NPR story.
There was indeed criticism when this story broke a few months ago here in The Netherlands about the applicability and breadth of the study, meaning more work would need to be done to be able to apply this for more ADHD kids.
> Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.
Facebook stopped being awesome a long time ago. I doubt it ever will be again. You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not. If facebook didn't repeatedly abuse its users' trust and privacy, there'd be no backlash. There'd be no 'flaming' articles and no shitstorms.
> Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.
Perhaps so, but the extension isn't a result of a flaming article. It has over 100,000 users and 4000+ weekly installs.
> You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not.
I'm not. I'm just surprised about how quickly the opinions seem to change. I made up my mind once facebook was basically allowing third-party websites I accidentally visit to post stuff in my name ("like"-buttons) and decided to stop using facebook right then. No need to rationalize or post articles.
It's just amazing how the pendulum swung back and forth over the last two years between an overall positive mood and an overall negative one.
I agree, though to be fair, facebook isn't the only site where third parties have tried to fix privacy issues.
I read once that you know you've really made it when an eco-system grows around your product or service. The same can be said here: you know your product or service sucks if unpaid developers feel compelled to try and fix it.
This reminds me of Palm's Graffiti system used on the Palm Pilot range of PDAs [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) ]. That system too used simple gestures that mimicked hand-writing.
Rather than training the system to learn how to decipher the user's input, it required the user to learn some basic gestures. The input speed may not have been as fast as the predictive touchscreen keyboards on iphone/android phones, but it was a pleasure to use and accuracy was second to none.
I think an important part of what made Graffiti so effective was the fact that you had access to a complete range of alphanumeric and punctuation characters without any need to switch modes. There were actually quite a number of onboard programming tools for Palm devices, so I could easily write little scripts in BASIC, Forth or OnboardC to pass the time or quickly try out an idea. It made the device feel more like a computer and less like a toy.
Most of the touch-based keyboards I've seen on modern smartphones perform acceptably when you're composing a message made out of English words, but you can just about forget coding on one. Even Lua, which is well-known for having a sparse syntax mainly composed of alphabetical keywords, is torture on an iPod Touch.
I remember that. I could actually graffiti faster than my handspring visor deluxe could keep up. The two downsides there are:
1) Needs 2 hands; I couldn't imaging using graffiti with my thumb while holding the device. I type on my phone with my thumb all the time
2) It infringes on Xerox's patents
It's an equipment and room booking/reservation system for schools and colleges (initially). I have some ideas about the interface I want but I like the design chops to implement them efficiently.
There are the usual elements found in web apps like dashboards, navigation and forms. There are also month/week/day views to view and make bookings for a given resource.
