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April 23rd, 2000
     
 

Affinity Groups
and other Killer WAP ideas

 
     
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Hi David,

I have been following your site quite regularly since the time I came across it a few months back. I have seen it change including the new look site. The interviews you carry are great and reinforce a lot of things. The fact that you share information instead of publishing it in a book available in some book store makes me visit your site more often. Besides your discussions are very, very current. You could say I visit your site many more times than I do Jakob Nielsen's. Something about it keeps your site top of the mind.

With reference to the article on 'Affinity Groups', I thought I must comment and share my two bits. I am a User Interface Designer working in India (Bangalore). While your emphasis on man the social animal bit is compelling, I think WAP devices can be of equal importance to the individual (irrespective of all group affinities), to deal with situations on one's own - e.g. privately scan info on a fairly compact postage stamp sized screens that can viewed only by him or her, espceially when performing a quick background check on a place, person, or something. To place a bid for an item that you wnat to keep a secret till you actually get it, etc. The fact is there will be quite a few individual things that require one to one interaction in the context of that one person.

Personally, my temperament is more like the one you described in your article taht of a social person and I would perhaps plug in to the affinity group based WAP services. All the articles on your site make very good reading.

Great work.

Regards,

Sridahr Dhulipala

 

 
 
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