Comments on: The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/ Adaptive Path Blog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:59:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Wil Tan (MojiPage) http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-179141 Wil Tan (MojiPage) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:50:06 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-179141 I agree with you; the paradigm for mobile user interaction is one that is going to drastically in order for it to work. I can imagine a "streaming" metaphor instead of "browsing". You have "channels" instead of applications on the phone, where each channel is a two-way communication pipe for concepts/objects/people that you publish/subscribe to. Upload a photo to flickr and receive updates from friends. Each contact could also be an aggregated channel where all SMS, emails and IM conversations, photos, lifestream activities can be uploaded and downloaded. Of course, that's just from my very limited imagination. I agree with you; the paradigm for mobile user interaction is one that is going to drastically in order for it to work.

I can imagine a “streaming” metaphor instead of “browsing”. You have “channels” instead of applications on the phone, where each channel is a two-way communication pipe for concepts/objects/people that you publish/subscribe to. Upload a photo to flickr and receive updates from friends. Each contact could also be an aggregated channel where all SMS, emails and IM conversations, photos, lifestream activities can be uploaded and downloaded. Of course, that’s just from my very limited imagination.

]]> By: Fourre-tout no 6 « IHM.media http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178916 Fourre-tout no 6 « IHM.media Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:56:57 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178916 [...] the web : Small Surface (définitivement une ressource de grande qualité) cite un article d’Adaptive Path (définitivement un cabinet de design où on se pose des questions). Je me contente de citer la [...] [...] the web : Small Surface (définitivement une ressource de grande qualité) cite un article d’Adaptive Path (définitivement un cabinet de design où on se pose des questions). Je me contente de citer la [...]

]]> By: Andrew Hinton http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178901 Andrew Hinton Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:46:35 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178901 This is great... wish I'd read it a couple of weeks ago, but I'm so behind on my blog-reading! I agree about the "IA Legacy" -- it's a problem. It's something I tried addressing with my Summit talk in April (http://www.inkblurt.com/2008/04/15/linkosophy/) In a nutshell, I think IA is about structuring context & connection, and creating structures that allow others to influence/shape the same. When the Web was manageable and static, that meant arranging the stuff on the shelves, as it were. But technology and scale have changed -- and the structures we need to focus on now are those that allow users to do that work themselves. As for the music thing: there's an awesome description of this shift in Spook Country, about a third of the way into the book. I don't have it on me, but here's a blog where I found someone quoting it: http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2008/05/comprising-it.html This idea that "mass media" doesn't exist "within" the world now, but rather it "comprises" it ... delicious way of putting it, methinks. This is great… wish I’d read it a couple of weeks ago, but I’m so behind on my blog-reading! I agree about the “IA Legacy” — it’s a problem. It’s something I tried addressing with my Summit talk in April (http://www.inkblurt.com/2008/04/15/linkosophy/) In a nutshell, I think IA is about structuring context & connection, and creating structures that allow others to influence/shape the same. When the Web was manageable and static, that meant arranging the stuff on the shelves, as it were. But technology and scale have changed — and the structures we need to focus on now are those that allow users to do that work themselves. As for the music thing: there’s an awesome description of this shift in Spook Country, about a third of the way into the book. I don’t have it on me, but here’s a blog where I found someone quoting it: http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2008/05/comprising-it.html This idea that “mass media” doesn’t exist “within” the world now, but rather it “comprises” it … delicious way of putting it, methinks.

]]> By: Joe Pemberton http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178701 Joe Pemberton Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:18:10 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178701 Thanks for your thoughtful post on a very timely topic. The organizing principles you describe also affect the way we consume content. We still tend to think in terms of albums, we also tend to think in terms of web sites. Despite having used my iPhone's Maps application almost daily, I still find myself going to the browser to search Safari because it's ingrained in me. To use your metaphor, contrast that boulder example with the kind of pebble-like interaction that's emerging with Twitter, where users are actually having 2 way, public conversations with Comcast tech support (follow comcastcares) all by interacting with a mobile UI that has zero navigation: SMS. Thanks for your thoughtful post on a very timely topic.

The organizing principles you describe also affect the way we consume content. We still tend to think in terms of albums, we also tend to think in terms of web sites. Despite having used my iPhone’s Maps application almost daily, I still find myself going to the browser to search Safari because it’s ingrained in me.

To use your metaphor, contrast that boulder example with the kind of pebble-like interaction that’s emerging with Twitter, where users are actually having 2 way, public conversations with Comcast tech support (follow comcastcares) all by interacting with a mobile UI that has zero navigation: SMS.

]]> By: Times Emit: Apt’s links for June 6th http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178670 Times Emit: Apt’s links for June 6th Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:31:05 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178670 [...] adaptive path blog : The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes - “delivering great Internet experiences on mobile devices will be less about âmobilizingâ web sites and web pages and more about dismantling the page-based organizing principle into a more flexible one.” [...] [...] adaptive path blog : The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes - “delivering great Internet experiences on mobile devices will be less about âmobilizingâ web sites and web pages and more about dismantling the page-based organizing principle into a more flexible one.” [...]

]]> By: Mobilising the web - Small Surfaces http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178663 Mobilising the web - Small Surfaces Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:08:18 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178663 [...] The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes [...] [...] The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes [...]

]]> By: The Social Web and Mix Tapes | things that confuse me http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178660 The Social Web and Mix Tapes | things that confuse me Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:19:29 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178660 [...] I read a post by Rachel Hinman at Adaptive Path, about “The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes”, where she compared the emerging trends in mobile information architecture to the days when we [...] [...] I read a post by Rachel Hinman at Adaptive Path, about “The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes”, where she compared the emerging trends in mobile information architecture to the days when we [...]

]]> By: Daniel Szuc http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178659 Daniel Szuc Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:46:35 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178659 Give me exactly what I need now so I can make the right decision at that moment with no more and no less - thats a useful mobile experience. Give me exactly what I need now so I can make the right decision at that moment with no more and no less - thats a useful mobile experience.

]]> By: Mario http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178652 Mario Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:32:17 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178652 Hi Rachel, How I miss my mix tapes!!!! :) Your post caused a major word rumble in my head, which I believe might be somehow related to this landmark change you foresee: 37signals & harvester iphone apps, yahoo mobile 3.0, mashups. I wonder how many companies are approaching the mobile internet arena with a blank mind...and how much many others do such with a web one :) I've participated in some projects in the mobile internet arena (from SMS messaging up to Mobile apps) and in most of them we had the same problem: product owners and stock holders find it too difficult to think outside the web model, and when pushed to do such they counter attack with the mythological "but why change it if it is an already proved way?". Hi Rachel,

How I miss my mix tapes!!!! :) Your post caused a major word rumble in my head, which I believe might be somehow related to this landmark change you foresee: 37signals & harvester iphone apps, yahoo mobile 3.0, mashups.

I wonder how many companies are approaching the mobile internet arena with a blank mind…and how much many others do such with a web one :) I’ve participated in some projects in the mobile internet arena (from SMS messaging up to Mobile apps) and in most of them we had the same problem: product owners and stock holders find it too difficult to think outside the web model, and when pushed to do such they counter attack with the mythological “but why change it if it is an already proved way?”.

]]> By: iPhone - Tips and Tricks » Blog Archive » The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178624 iPhone - Tips and Tricks » Blog Archive » The Mobile Internet and Mix Tapes Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:18:31 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/06/05/the-mobile-internet-and-mix-tapes/#comment-178624 [...] Adaptive Path placed an interesting blog post on The Mobile Internet and Mix TapesHere’s a brief overviewCertainly the iPhone has greatly improved the mobile Internet experience, but it nearly mirrors the interactions and metaphors from the PC….The point reminded me of a portion of Edward Tufte’s video review of the iPhone interface where he describes the experience of accessing the New York Times o… [...] [...] Adaptive Path placed an interesting blog post on The Mobile Internet and Mix TapesHere’s a brief overviewCertainly the iPhone has greatly improved the mobile Internet experience, but it nearly mirrors the interactions and metaphors from the PC….The point reminded me of a portion of Edward Tufte’s video review of the iPhone interface where he describes the experience of accessing the New York Times o… [...]

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