Big scary title huh!!! :)
recently I have been thinking more and more about life in the modern electronic networked existence we can/do live now. The implications are genuinely mind blowing and I am always scanning around to see what others are doing and also trying new ideas.
This evening I came across a post by Tantek Çelik called "Three Human Interface Hypotheses Update: Email is Efail" which talks about the way that email is becoming increasingly less useful. A bit like the telegraph and telegrams perhaps?
Browsing about I saw some of the other ideas Tantek is trying, his personal Wiki is a cool idea and of course MicroFormats.
For me, this site is a step in the direction Tantek is heading.
I decided in part to buy www.lancewicks.com because I wanted a place where family and friends could find me and once they could me stay up to date with what I am doing. My Noserub page is the latest addition to the site and expands the idea further.
NoseRub, as I've posted about earlier, is great for the initial purpose of aggregating all my online content (blogs, podcsasts, twitter, etc) and making it all easily viewable and followable.
The second idea I have for it, is to eventually become a central place where my social network will reside. For example, you can (right now) create an account on my Noserub area and like me aggregate your online content/identity here. or say over at www.indentoo.com . The big plus is which ever you choose I should be able to keep track of it and the details should stay up to date. Although this is a work in progress at this stage. So you might put a noserub installation on your home domain and I could/should be able to connect to it from mine and then we both get updates from one another.
Then if I get bored of this site, I should/could/will be able to migrate simply from here to identoo.com and your site will be updated by web magic.
The idea here being that in this modern world, automating the announcing/updating of what tools your contacts are using needs to get better. For example, my twittering I use also to update Facebook. This in turn lead to a friend adding me to her twitter contacts, which lead me to find her blog. Wouldn't have been better/easier if I discovered it via a central site of hers? What if she'd had a NoseRub site and I subscribed/linked to it from mine. Then when she joined twitter, maybe Noserub would have pinged me a message to say she'd joined?
Also recently I have been playing with tools like www.Fring.com and www.jaiku.com which bring the internet closer to me via my mobile. I already use the browser on my phone to check Facebook, Bloglines, Twitter. But a mobile client is really powerful. I am totally inlove with jaiku's integration with my contacts and diary, shame I know almost nobody that uses it and it does seem to be dieing within Google. Fring is pretty awesome, I keep meaning to try the Plazes mobile software that Tom Croucher has written. I have also said that I'd try and help NoseRub with a mobile client, but havn't quite got to it. :(
Anyway....
heres where the life bit gets brought up. What I am doing seems totally foreign to so many people I meet. In ways I understand why, it is all rather Science fiction really. Imagine, being able to tell people thousands of miles away you are popping down the road for a sandwich, or quickly letting someone at home that you saw a friend of theirs in the street. Imagine that you wife could see you were leaving the office and planning to go to the shopping centre and could send you a message asking for a bag of sugar.
It's like a movie when you look at it that way.
That said, this IS the 21st century, it IS supposed to be hi tech, isn't it?
Twitter, flickr, facebook, mobile phones, laptops, SecondLife, wikis, etc etc are what people dreamed we'd have and they are here being under used by the vast majority of people. Hopefully, I/we are the early adopters, the ones who bought the fancy horseless carraige when it first came out. Hopefully, theowrld will follow and soon I won't have to try and explain to 18 year olds why Twitter would be cool for them, more so than it is for me... if only they'd try!
In my office we try to "get it", we have a blog, we mashup/remix other RSS feeds on our site, heck we even have instant messaging links on the website. But we are in the minority, does your garage have a website? Do they have an RSS feed of the work they are doing? Does your kids teacher have a blog? Does your alarm give you an RSS feed or an IM if something happens? (this one is coming by the way: http://www.alertme.com/ ) Can you book an appointment with your doctor or dentist online? Can you read the meetings of your town council meetings online? Can you comment on those minutes?
Where you work, how do you update your customers/clients as to whats new? By telephone, by fax or letter? Bia the Web? Via Twitter? Pictures on Flickr? Video on YouTube?
How do you tell your wife/husband about your day? What about your uncle or cousin? What about your old mate from school who lives in another country now?
Lets turn it around the other way...
How do you tell your doctor you feel sick? How does your mechanic know your care is making a funny noise? How does your alarm system know to disarm because you are home? How does your boss know you've arrived at the client's office?
Wouldn't it be great if your doctor knew you were poorly, because you posted something on your blog? Or because the doctors surgery had a web application where you recorded your temperature, blood pressure etc?
Wouldn't it be nice if your boss knew you were at the clients because your mobile let Plazes know where you were. Or perhaps your client Twittered/tweeted that his/her guest had arrived.
The point I guess is that to date, these exciting new technologies have only just scratched the surfaces of our lives. They are only just starting to soak through to everyday life.
As a good geek, I am trying to expand the use, join the cause and help a new user try one today!
recently I have been thinking more and more about life in the modern electronic networked existence we can/do live now. The implications are genuinely mind blowing and I am always scanning around to see what others are doing and also trying new ideas.
This evening I came across a post by Tantek Çelik called "Three Human Interface Hypotheses Update: Email is Efail" which talks about the way that email is becoming increasingly less useful. A bit like the telegraph and telegrams perhaps?
Browsing about I saw some of the other ideas Tantek is trying, his personal Wiki is a cool idea and of course MicroFormats.
For me, this site is a step in the direction Tantek is heading.
I decided in part to buy www.lancewicks.com because I wanted a place where family and friends could find me and once they could me stay up to date with what I am doing. My Noserub page is the latest addition to the site and expands the idea further.
NoseRub, as I've posted about earlier, is great for the initial purpose of aggregating all my online content (blogs, podcsasts, twitter, etc) and making it all easily viewable and followable.
The second idea I have for it, is to eventually become a central place where my social network will reside. For example, you can (right now) create an account on my Noserub area and like me aggregate your online content/identity here. or say over at www.indentoo.com . The big plus is which ever you choose I should be able to keep track of it and the details should stay up to date. Although this is a work in progress at this stage. So you might put a noserub installation on your home domain and I could/should be able to connect to it from mine and then we both get updates from one another.
Then if I get bored of this site, I should/could/will be able to migrate simply from here to identoo.com and your site will be updated by web magic.
The idea here being that in this modern world, automating the announcing/updating of what tools your contacts are using needs to get better. For example, my twittering I use also to update Facebook. This in turn lead to a friend adding me to her twitter contacts, which lead me to find her blog. Wouldn't have been better/easier if I discovered it via a central site of hers? What if she'd had a NoseRub site and I subscribed/linked to it from mine. Then when she joined twitter, maybe Noserub would have pinged me a message to say she'd joined?
Also recently I have been playing with tools like www.Fring.com and www.jaiku.com which bring the internet closer to me via my mobile. I already use the browser on my phone to check Facebook, Bloglines, Twitter. But a mobile client is really powerful. I am totally inlove with jaiku's integration with my contacts and diary, shame I know almost nobody that uses it and it does seem to be dieing within Google. Fring is pretty awesome, I keep meaning to try the Plazes mobile software that Tom Croucher has written. I have also said that I'd try and help NoseRub with a mobile client, but havn't quite got to it. :(
Anyway....
heres where the life bit gets brought up. What I am doing seems totally foreign to so many people I meet. In ways I understand why, it is all rather Science fiction really. Imagine, being able to tell people thousands of miles away you are popping down the road for a sandwich, or quickly letting someone at home that you saw a friend of theirs in the street. Imagine that you wife could see you were leaving the office and planning to go to the shopping centre and could send you a message asking for a bag of sugar.
It's like a movie when you look at it that way.
That said, this IS the 21st century, it IS supposed to be hi tech, isn't it?
Twitter, flickr, facebook, mobile phones, laptops, SecondLife, wikis, etc etc are what people dreamed we'd have and they are here being under used by the vast majority of people. Hopefully, I/we are the early adopters, the ones who bought the fancy horseless carraige when it first came out. Hopefully, theowrld will follow and soon I won't have to try and explain to 18 year olds why Twitter would be cool for them, more so than it is for me... if only they'd try!
In my office we try to "get it", we have a blog, we mashup/remix other RSS feeds on our site, heck we even have instant messaging links on the website. But we are in the minority, does your garage have a website? Do they have an RSS feed of the work they are doing? Does your kids teacher have a blog? Does your alarm give you an RSS feed or an IM if something happens? (this one is coming by the way: http://www.alertme.com/ ) Can you book an appointment with your doctor or dentist online? Can you read the meetings of your town council meetings online? Can you comment on those minutes?
Where you work, how do you update your customers/clients as to whats new? By telephone, by fax or letter? Bia the Web? Via Twitter? Pictures on Flickr? Video on YouTube?
How do you tell your wife/husband about your day? What about your uncle or cousin? What about your old mate from school who lives in another country now?
Lets turn it around the other way...
How do you tell your doctor you feel sick? How does your mechanic know your care is making a funny noise? How does your alarm system know to disarm because you are home? How does your boss know you've arrived at the client's office?
Wouldn't it be great if your doctor knew you were poorly, because you posted something on your blog? Or because the doctors surgery had a web application where you recorded your temperature, blood pressure etc?
Wouldn't it be nice if your boss knew you were at the clients because your mobile let Plazes know where you were. Or perhaps your client Twittered/tweeted that his/her guest had arrived.
The point I guess is that to date, these exciting new technologies have only just scratched the surfaces of our lives. They are only just starting to soak through to everyday life.
As a good geek, I am trying to expand the use, join the cause and help a new user try one today!