[guardian-dev] Fwd: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

[johannes amorosa]

Cheesy design is the only way you can "sell" this to my ignorant friends.
I'm amazed every time I start a discussion
about privacy in digital age - how collectively everyone is looking into
the other direction. Even the point you have to buy
it helps, because then its a "normal" app.
JA


On 10 July 2013 00:51, Tim Prepscius <timprepscius at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I knew I was onto something when I got a pastel pink and blue bike
> > kit. Pastel colors are #beautiful! Which users care more about
> > something abstract like "beauty" when they originally departed looking
> > for something literal like "privacy"?
>
> I am having difficulty exactly parsing this paragraph.
>
> However, if it is saying what I think it is saying, I would be careful
> to denigrate users who care about beauty.  (even if subjective).  For
> they are 99% of everybody.
>
> A good UI goes hand in hand with a good fundamental structure.
>
> --
>
> For instance "PabbaBubble" makes candies which look and taste delicious.
>
> If they made candies that tasted great and looked like poo no one
> would buy them.
> If they made candies that look awesome but tasted like poo no one
> would eat them.
> By having both they conquer and do great business.
>
> PabbaBubble
> 380 Broome St
> (between Mott St & Mulberry St)
> New York, NY 10013
>
>
> Anyways, I'm obviously babbling.
>
> Cheers to all,
>
> -tim
>
>
> On 7/9/13, Chris Ballinger <chrisballinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> *What technology will Heml.is use?
> >> *We are building Heml.is on top of proven technologies, such as XMPP
> with
> >> PGP.
> >
> >
> > PGP, really?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark Belinsky
> > <mark at guardianproject.info>wrote:
> >
> >> A pretty, beautiful and attractive messaging app that doesn't exist yet:
> >> https://heml.is/
> >> Apparently it's end-to-end secure according to the fun-guy video, but it
> >> doesn't say how nor whether it's open source.
> >>
> >> The iOS7 design is uber nice, gorgeous and fetching. Something to take
> >> inspiration from if Chatsecure is thinking about a facelift.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> --*
> >> @mbelinsky <https://twitter.com/mbelinsky> | guardianproject.info |
> >> phone: +1-347-466-9327 | ostel: 1003 **| pgp:
> >> 0xEFBFA7278D8EFFDA<
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEFBFA7278D8EFFDA>
> >> *
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com>
> >> Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:52 PM
> >> Subject: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"
> >> To: liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Suprised to see Peter Sunde, Leif Högberg & Linus Olsson push out their
> >> private
> >> messaging for Android and iOS as closed-source unlock-ware:
> >>
> >>     https://heml.is/
> >>
> >> (Warning: Self-ingratiating video. Fun-guy team shots)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Julian Oliver
> >> PGP B6E9FD9A
> >> http://julianoliver.com
> >> http://criticalengineering.org
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