<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I tried YouVersion on my work provided blackberry.<br><br>The number one learning I had from it was: Here in America, on Sunday at 11am, no 'net' bible is going to work due to a predictable traffic spike overloading servers. Unfortunately, that is the only time 95% of users want it to work. So, even if the app is polished beyond perfection, a server side bible reader is doomed to be perceived as a flop because just about everyone finds it won't work on Sunday. I suspect a similar issue exists in Europe and Asia. <br><br>In designing for a server based web enabled app, remember that if your target device is portable enough to replace a paper bible, most of your users will expect your server to have bandwidth during services. Since Facebook is both a desktop and mobile environment, keep this in mind. <br><br>Possible solutions could be to allow some local
caching of sections so that savvy users can at least prepare for services if the notes are pre-published, or design in a peer or group provided texts (but this opens up all sorts of bandwidth cost issues in mobile environments... spend $$$ of users money serving bibles if they don't have the right contract.) <br><br>I see much more value on FB with daily reading applets and badges pointing to other locally provided apps than a server side bible text reader. <br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 11/13/10, David Haslam <i><dfhmch@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Haslam <dfhmch@googlemail.com><br>Subject: [sword-devel] YouVersion application for facebook<br>To: sword-devel@crosswire.org<br>Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 3:57 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>This message is not intended to be an advert, merely to illustrate what
other<br>agencies are doing to engage people with Scripture.<br><br>There is a now a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/YouVersion" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/YouVersion</a> YouVersion application<br>for facebook .<br><br>What can we learn from this approach?<br><br>David<br><br><br>-- <br>View this message in context: <a href="http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/YouVersion-application-for-facebook-tp3040708p3040708.html" target="_blank">http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/YouVersion-application-for-facebook-tp3040708p3040708.html</a><br>Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>sword-devel mailing list: <a ymailto="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org" href="/mc/compose?to=sword-devel@crosswire.org">sword-devel@crosswire.org</a><br><a href="http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel"
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