Will everyone soon be swype-ing?

Ranjit Mathoda — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:26:43 +0000

A company called Swype has created a fantastic new way of creating text input.

Instead of touching keys by lifting your finger or stylus from key to key, you trace a path from each letter to the next in what you’re writing. The software that runs the keyboard then figures out what you said.

I could try to describe it further, but why not just watch the video?

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/700774

More on the company can be found at its website:

http://www.swypeinc.com

Disruption number 3? Joost

Ranjit Mathoda — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:10:02 +0000

Niklas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Zennstr%C3%B6m) and Janus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis), the guys who invented kazaa, a program to illegally trade files, and skype, a program that allows easy free voice calls from your pc and very cheap calls to and from regular phones (and was bought by ebay for $2.6 billion plus), are now letting a few people peak at their next project, making streaming video and audio free to distribute and super convenient to access.

But isn’t that youtube you ask?

Well it’s a fair amount different, particularly in that it’s not small little videos, and it scales without much cost: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/64697521/

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Will everyone soon be swype-ing?

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