Second Peer Response

Hey Jake!

Before this blog I didn't even know about "Multi Touch Technology", I just thought it was called 'Touch Screen'. Considering this I did not know completely what to expect upon entering into your blog but regardless found your blog quite entertaining to read.

Your notes were quite thorough. I also noticed how well they were laid out and this was found throughout your entire blog. Even if at the beginning of the notes I was slightly confused, most to all of my questions were soon answered and I was on the edge of my seat to see what new technology is coming out in Multi-Touch.

For your response, you summarized which I personally think is important. However, your entire response was a summary of the notes (I did this as well). You (I) need to remember that although this is the easy way out it is not exactly what a "response" is. Taking this into consideration I would just project more of your feelings into the responses and then cut down a little on the summary. Then your responses will be even richer and you will find yourself in a stronger position.

Other then the slight change of your responses, I would change one other thing. Many of your blogs are about almost the same thing, or at least in the same field. Possibly try to expand your audience by finding multi touch in different areas life. Things such as gaming and book reading (kindle?) will strengthen your blog substantially.

Your colors and fonts were easy to read and consistent. One thing they may help with organization it to label your notes/responses something such as: title- Response/notes. By doing this the reader will be more prepared for what they are about to read.

Just so you know, all I have said here is quite nitpicky and you are doing a great job. Keep up the great work!

2nd Blog Response

Sorry this is so late—I've had problems getting on this site

Your notes are, to say the least, very complete. Although they are easy to follow and detailed, some of it seems unnecessary. Try to focus your notes on the main theme of the post and skip some of the extreme details. The sources you used for your notes were very interesting and informative.
As I said, your posts are very complete and detailed, but try to keep the responses solely for your reflection and thoughts on the issue. You included many of the same facts in your notes in the response. Keeping the too separate will make the post more accessible to the reader and make your point stronger.
Each of your posts function well on there own, but sometimes they lack a connection between them. Make sure you keep an identifiable thought process moving throughout the blog so the reader stays interested. A background post explaining the roots of Multi-Touch technology would help give a broader understanding of the topic.
All of your citation is complete, and your links function properly. The blog is organized well and looks good. Great job so far.

2nd Peer Response

I found your topic very interesting! I was actually pretty excited to read about it. Owning an iPod touch myself, I've wondered how they managed to develop its multi-touch screen. But after reading this I've learned a lot about how and why they did it. Also I found it interesting to read about this and compare it with my own blog, the Apple Company. One thing I really liked was that you included a link to that interactive website developed by SilverPAC. I actually tried to use it, but my computer didn't support it.

Your notes are very detailed and give the reader good information about the article you've chosen. I love the way your notes are set up; they really helped me organize my thoughts as I read them. The pictures that you included were also very interesting and fun to look at. They helped me understand the information a little better. Your responses were also very thorough and showed how you felt about the article you read.

One thing that I would suggest is that maybe you could research specific topics that appeal to a broader audience. For instance maybe find an article about the development of multi-touch technology in video games. I think a lot more readers would be interested in this, since video games are an everyday thing for a lot of people. It would also be really cool if you included a video of some sort if you came across one.

As for the organization of your blog, it is extremely helpful. The

colors are easy to read and the overall visual style is appealing.

However, only 4 1/2 of your blogs are complete, when there should

be 5.

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Are We Loosing Sight of Multi-Touch?

The newest competitor of the iPhone, Motorola's Droid, is missing multi-touch?

• The Droid from Motorola
• Capacitive touch screen
• Android 2.0
• Android 2.0
• Android 2.0 does support multi-touch
• However, the functionality isn't used in this device
• No Multi-touch
  
• The lack of multi-touch on the Droid is not right
• With all the new devices coming out with multi-touch; having a touch screen, but not multi-touch is outrageous
• What does this mean for the future of multi-touch devices?
• Hopefully not much
• We just have to hope that the next droid has multi-touch and that it won't be something that we see continue
  

World's First Multi-touch Interactive Website

  

    On November 3, 2009 SilverPAC, a "leading provider of advanced home digital entertainment solutions", announced the world's first multi-touch interactive website. The website (located here) is powered by Microsoft's Silverlight along with the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7. In a sense it is a rather simple idea, yet nobody had done it before SilverPAC. This is because it actually hasn't been possible because of the lack of multi-input support in operating systems. Mac's OS X may support multi-touch, but it doesn't support multi-input. The iPhone OS obviously supports multi-input, but restrictions placed by Apple keeps Silverlight from reaching the iPhone and iPod touch.

    Silverlight is a software development kit that, "extends and amplifies your existing development skills, empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser." (A software development kit is a set of development tools that enable a software engineer to create applications for some sort of platform or framework, for those of us that don't already know this.) Silverlight is a web development platform from Microsoft that enables features like animation, audio playback, and vector graphics in a web browser on almost all operating systems. SilverPAC used Silverlight's multi-touch support as the platform to run the website on. And because Silverlight is integrated into Windows 7 operating system the website is able to receive input from the user's multi-touch enabled computer.

    Even if none of that last paragraph made any sense to you, the important thing is that SilverPAC developed the world's first multi-touch interactive website. In the supposed future where we interact with computers through multi-touch technologies, this website brings us that much closer to this future. Unfortunately; unless you have a touchscreen on your computer, you won't be able to use this technology. Even with a multi-touch trackpad or a multi-touch Magic Mouse, you are still limited to clicking and dragging your mouse which is, theoretically, only one finger. Sadly, it may be a year before multi-touch screens are cheaper and more widespread.

SilverPAC Notes

World's First Multi-touch Interactive Website

• What it is:
• A website powered by Microsoft's Silverlight
• Along with the built in multi-touch capabilities in Windows 7
• A really simple concept, but the first in the world
• How it works:
• Silverlight's multi-touch capability in conjunction with built-in multi-touch support in Windows 7
• With the addition of multi-touch hardware on your computer
• What is Silverlight?
• Silverlight is a software developer's kit that, "extends and amplifies your existing development skills, empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser."
• A software developer's kit (SDK) is a set of development tools that enable a software engineer to create applications for some sort of platform or framework.
• It is a web development platform from Microsoft that enables features like animation, audio playback, vector graphics, in a web browser on almost all operating systems
• Requirements:
• You must have the Windows 7 operating system
• Multi-touch hardware
• Why hasn't this been done before?
• There hasn't been an operating system that could handle more than one point of interaction
• What website has multi-touch interaction?
• SilverPAC
• http://www.silverpac.com/multitouch/ 
• What does this all mean?
• In the supposed future we will be interacting with computers through multi-touch
• This website shows us just how close we are to that future
• Unfortunately; unless you have a touchscreen on your computer, you won't be able to use this technology. Even with a multi-touch trackpad or a multi-touch Magic Mouse, you are still limited to clicking and dragging your mouse which is, theoretically, only one finger.