But it will need to work hard to compete against the excitement and spontaneity of Snapchat, the speed and simplicity of text messaging, and photography fatigue (the more pictures we take, the less we seem to value them).
For those who don't know, TigerText brings the ease and simplicity of text messaging into the enterprise world, offering the ability to administer who is included and excluded from a network, which messages need a security pin, and even if certain messages should expire after a certain amount of time.
"At HighNote we've recognized the need that has arisen for a new communications medium that captures the simplicity and immediacy of text, but with a far greater degree of message richness designed for a more robust, purposed level of social communication," says CEO Marc Barach.
For CO development and curation, OBO-Edit (version 2.0, Day-Richter et al., 2007) was the tool of choice due to its simplicity and the generation of text output (OBO ontology format) that is readable by biologists.
Started as a way for University of Michigan students to gossip during class, founder Dan Rich says he was inspired by the simplicity of sites like Texts From Last Night and FML when he built Syncronizer, a community where you can follow chat conversations about anything from "Jersey Shore" to "Econ 503".
However, there's a rocking motion and simplicity of focus in both text and illustrations that give this one some weight without making it too heavy.
The first, a Salisbury chant — an English recasting of Gregorian plainsong — was a picture of simplicity: much of the text is chanted on a single tone, with movement only at the beginning and end of a line.
Yet the simplicity of the moment, with whole lines of text spoken by the chorus, bluntly sung choral refrains and pummeling percussion, comes as a relief.
Her interest in that artist's rarefied ideas about abstraction and simplicity seems to drive her to crochet strips of text by and about him.
"The value and simplicity of our unlimited data, talk and text plans, combined with an unsurpassed customer experience and our increasingly robust device portfolio make for a strong combination," Mr. Hesse said in a statement.
The power of a diagram, however, is to replace the complexity found in the text with the simplicity of an image, and when we view the diagram we tend to forget that the "information source" was intended to be multidimensional.
