It just looks awful.
By hybrid I mean that people could receive regular human-readable emails, but senders could include a small url or tag that links to the semantic information (it could be an event invitation, receipt, valid email confirmation, password changing, task proposal, marketing offer, flight information, etc.).
The "smart" email client could then automatically interpret semantic emails, and act accordingly. It would also hide those emails, and only show you the relevant notification.
Unless you plan to discover new ideas by mistake, you absolutely need a vision, and then find the way to get there.
If you start from the bottom (bottom-up), you'll constantly compromise technically, as lots of things are not yet possible to do.
If you start from the top (top-down), you'll "know" that it's possible to accomplish, and you'll only have to find out how to do it.
You have far more chance to solve an enigma if you know there is an answer than if you don't. Visionary ideas make you believe the answer exists, which makes it much more easier to accomplish.
You're building a faster horse instead of a car.
The solution lays in semantic communication. As long as you mainly communicate with text that someone has to read, analyze and understand, you're doing it wrong.
I'm working on a social task management system, and I'm wondering what you guys would want to see in such a system.Basically, it would let you create tasks and share/assign them to people (but it goes much farther than that).Do you see yourself using it? As an advertiser, would you pay to make your advertisements into actionable tasks that people could add to their to-do list (or share with...
Where do you get your data from? Do you use data scraping?
Thanks for the feedback.
I think I prefer MVVM Light, mostly because of design-time data.
Comments are tricky, I'm also working on them.
The problem is that Windows Phone doesn't allow users to pin website icons to their start screen (you can pin a static web page preview but it doesn't look very good). Fortunately, http://www.web2tile.com solves this issue, but not enough people are aware it exists. I may try to build a native app for it, but I'm not sure Microsoft would allow it.
I've recently published my first Windows Phone application, Combinator. It's a very simple Hacker News client and it's completely free.Download Combinator v1.0 (Marketplace): http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=a5275a3f-6611-48f6-bd62-7382eda4c028Download Combinator v1.1 (.xap file): http://www.mediafire.com/?s8m1wch8dj8wpk9Thank you for your feedback.