A search on wikipedia about social networking website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites) reveals 100+ social networking websites in an around.
Most of these websites are focused either around a specific usage and/or a community of people.
But in todays changing scenario that is not enough. Consider this Indrani Medhi at Microsoft Research made a text-less user Interface for poor people.
This gave me an idea as to make a social networking site which is also text less. I would like to give some features.
1)Text-less: the way in which we deal with our environment is purely textless. We interact with our friends using speech and photographs. This is not present in current social networking website.
2)Real social work: A textless sns(Social Networking site) is also easy to use and understand by even semi-literate and illiterate people. Thus can also help in a myriad ways other than only social networking like delivering of lectures.
3)Rich Experience:By usage of high quality graphics and audio it gives a real life near life experience which is surely better than any social networking website. Sound of a friend can be truly benefical when we need them instead of just a small text as sound contains emotions.
4)Easy extension on mobile devices: mobile devices have a trouble in displaying both text and images on a small screen. But only with images and audio this can easily be done. though there might be an initial problem in incorporating audio for mobile devices.
5)Better for touch screen devices. generally people have found that it is difficult to type using touch screen devices. But now with this forget hitting the keyboard. Things now become drag and drop.
Some technological challenges
1) Availability of High Bandwidth : Images and audio seldom needs a lot of bandwidth. Efficient compression methods are available but things need to be more efficient.
2) Large audio and video data: this should not be a problem as such because we are seeing Google's Picassa , Youtube which are very data intensive websites.
3) Good intutive graphics: Ofcourse this is the main point on which the success and failure of such a technology occurs. The web interface should be easy to use even for the first timers.
Images should be chosen after considering the ethnicity and emotions of the populations.
Well now this post has a lot of text.
If you feel u can add anything please comment and or mail me
jigarr.gandhi AT gmail DOT com
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