Yeah... it's easy to sound snarky on mailing lists. I too was not
trying to be sarcastic, but rereading my post, it looks like I was
trying to dis Plaxo. Nothing of the sort. I too have friends who use
it and love it. But for the reasons I listed, it's not really for me.
There's absolutely no reason why there shouldn't be a Meishi client
for WinCE, Symbian or even J2ME/iTron.
Or even some way to import/export to/from Plaxo/Exchange/Mac Address
Book/etc.
With respect to the vCard bursting... yeah... but it's got to start
somewhere. I was planning on releasing my code and specs as open
source, so I would think that if enough people thought it was a good
idea, some of the major handset vendors would start integrating it.
-Cheers
-Matt H.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
Matthew S. Hamrick wrote:
Yes... if you have a Blackberry, Treo or HTC phone, run Windows
and don't mind keeping your data on Plaxo's servers, Plaxo is
indeed a good solution.
Still... I'm fairly certain that most GSM phones can't make the
data call to the Plaxo servers _while_ they are on a voice call
with someone else.
The "vCard bursting" concept moves data directly from one phone to
another without third party involvement. And it does is as part of
the "session" created when you're talking with someone else. i.e.
- you don't have to hang up the phone to receive burst vCards.
Couple of thoughts. First, this is an open platform for you to
create whatever you want. So go ahead and knock yourself out
making this (actually not mean to be as sarcastic as it sounds).
Second, this is an open platform so you can either port the
Blackberry, Treo, WinMo app to OpenMoko.
I don't use Plaxo, but I know people who do and like it (thought/
thinking about trying it). For ideas/apps that are a closed loop
between you and your data feel free to come up with brand new
protocols for the communication. However, don't expect it to have
wide adoption. Even if OpenMoko takes off, it isn't going to
become prevalent overnight. So to have the ability to interoperate
with Blackberrys, Tres, WinMo PPCs (which make up a decent
percentage of the [smart]phone population) you are going to have to
be able to speak a common language. vCards are pretty standard, so
the idea does have some merit (not that my blessing is a
requirement). But unless most people are able to support "vCard
Bursting" then you target audience is only as large as the OpenMoko
install base. I for one am not really interested in using a
protocol with such a limited user base, although it is an
interesting concept.
Plaxo does what it does well. I *somewhat* understand your not
wanting your personal data to be stored on someone elses servers,
but creating new protocols for data transmission is probably not
the best way to go about obtaining privacy/whatever.
This isn't meant to be a derogatory post, but I would prefer to be
able to communicate with a broad range of people running a broad
range of devices.
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