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Comment on Technologies that help by Dima

Dima — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:32:49 +0000

Thank you , Vanessa for the comment.

I am sure there is a community of researchers looking into the issue of technology for visually impaired people and they may have better suggestions than me. I hope people who find interest in this post, will also have ideas to offer to your company.

Best of luck!

Comment on Technologies that help by Vanessa

Vanessa — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:49:57 +0000

Hi Dima,

I think text to speech is good for many people; both who are visually impaired and who have 20/20 vision.

I think the text to speech service at iSpeech.org is very helpful for people with low vision. It doesn’t require any download and a free trial is available to make sure it works for you.

The tts service is also great for anyone who just wants to save time by listening to text.

In order to specifically help blind and visually impaired people, we recently released a beta – Blackberry application that reads all text messages and emails aloud via our service. This is available for a fraction of a fraction of other mobile communication software for the blind. As it turns out, many people like the option of listening to emails and SMS (text) messages on their Blackberry without looking at the screen. It seems to be popular with commuters.

Could you suggest any features that we could add for blind people? Our CEO is very eager to develop software that helps people. Please email me if you have any suggestions.

-V. Rose

Comment on Skype is losing it :( by Dima

Dima — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:19:40 +0000

Jared, isn’t it a bit better in the new version?

Comment on Skype is losing it :( by Jared Buck

Jared Buck — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:43:00 +0000

I am sick of this message not delivered issue, it keeps showing the loading circle next to messages sometimes, it is frustrating both me and one friend I talk to (the only reason I have skype in the first place).

I am considering having my friend (she’s not particularly computer literate) switch from skype to using a different chat program. it’s bugging me to no end.

Comment on About by Nerys Montana

Nerys Montana — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:34:06 +0000

Hi Dmitry,

My CEO, Dermot Corrigan, would like to contact you as we believe our new image technology could be interesting for Think Macro.

Please feel free to check out our website http://www.imprezzeo.com as an introduction to us.

Could I please ask for your email address so that Dermot can make contact with you in relation to this?

Thanks for your time and hope to hear from you soon.

Kind regards
Nerys Montana
Executive Assistant to Dermot Corrigan, Chief Executive Officer
Imprezzeo

Comment on Another face of media concentration? by Dima

Dima — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:43:23 +0000

Thanks, Josh!
I actually saw Deuze’s post yesterday :)

Comment on Another face of media concentration? by Josh Braun

Josh Braun — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:26:43 +0000

As promised, here’s a link to the review on NM+S’ site:

http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/10/6/957

NM+S has locked it down, of course. But Deuze has reprinted it at his blog for now:

http://deuze.blogspot.com/2008/11/media-work-book-review.html

Comment on Funny or not funny? by Dima

Dima — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:01:36 +0000

I would say go with the TV version, but maybe this is because the stage was too far away :)

Comment on Funny or not funny? by Karen

Karen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:01 +0000

I love his skepticism of Facebook. “what does that mean?” Very worth thinking about.

BTW, Funny or not Funny isn’t the question. Was he as sexy in person?

Comment on In the meantime, in a kingdom far, far away… by ::: Think Macro ::: » Making the “new” media “old”

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