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symbioidljThe latest internet technologies really just blow my mind. They're so simple in that "Eureka" sort of way... But such power is being harnessed.
This is what I was thinking the internet should be a few years ago, and I'm glad it's finally happening.
I'm still pissed about the lack of good annotation systems.
I know there's the "Amaya" browser by W3C, but it seems so limited.
anyway, technology like bit-torrent, livejournal, RSS, Freecycle(which I've just learned about tonight, I'll tell you about it later), Yelp(a word of mouth recommendation for local services), there's more I can't think of now. SETI@Home is one of the big ones(as well as that one that does protein folding)...
All this power being used to foster communities in new ways. There is still a thriving internet community, it's just more sophisticated in some ways... The masses will still see it like "the web" and some kids'll IM each other(which is good, too). But more and more networked social interfaces will be implemented, harnessing the power of social information to empower the individual to make informed choices.
The biggest thing is the need to break away from the "browser" as such. I think a generic pluggable interface system is definitely a good start, and the browser is the first step in that, but there's more needed, a full system approach that deals in scales of time and space. Information architecture really can be implemented in much more fully informed ways, and we need to get to a point, where interfacing with data is as intuitive as flipping through channels(if not a little more involved).
One interface problem I've noticed in WinXP is something that seems very fucking basic. When it asks me to choose a program to open a file with(for example in Firefox), instead of taking me to the "Program Files" folder, it brings me to "My Documents" Which would be fine, if I were downloading, but I'm choosing a program to use, which most likely is an executable in Program Files. Directory structure is one thing that really bothers me in almost all interface designs.
I know that with the latest technologies, it will be irrelevant. Things such as Google Desktop Search, M$'s forthcoming WINfs which would have a database and query engine at the heart of the OS, Apple's Spotlight search technology, and Dashboard from Nat Friedman, and Seth Nickel's "Storage"... revolutionizing how we will work with our computer's data...
This is what I was thinking the internet should be a few years ago, and I'm glad it's finally happening.
I'm still pissed about the lack of good annotation systems.
I know there's the "Amaya" browser by W3C, but it seems so limited.
anyway, technology like bit-torrent, livejournal, RSS, Freecycle(which I've just learned about tonight, I'll tell you about it later), Yelp(a word of mouth recommendation for local services), there's more I can't think of now. SETI@Home is one of the big ones(as well as that one that does protein folding)...
All this power being used to foster communities in new ways. There is still a thriving internet community, it's just more sophisticated in some ways... The masses will still see it like "the web" and some kids'll IM each other(which is good, too). But more and more networked social interfaces will be implemented, harnessing the power of social information to empower the individual to make informed choices.
The biggest thing is the need to break away from the "browser" as such. I think a generic pluggable interface system is definitely a good start, and the browser is the first step in that, but there's more needed, a full system approach that deals in scales of time and space. Information architecture really can be implemented in much more fully informed ways, and we need to get to a point, where interfacing with data is as intuitive as flipping through channels(if not a little more involved).
One interface problem I've noticed in WinXP is something that seems very fucking basic. When it asks me to choose a program to open a file with(for example in Firefox), instead of taking me to the "Program Files" folder, it brings me to "My Documents" Which would be fine, if I were downloading, but I'm choosing a program to use, which most likely is an executable in Program Files. Directory structure is one thing that really bothers me in almost all interface designs.
I know that with the latest technologies, it will be irrelevant. Things such as Google Desktop Search, M$'s forthcoming WINfs which would have a database and query engine at the heart of the OS, Apple's Spotlight search technology, and Dashboard from Nat Friedman, and Seth Nickel's "Storage"... revolutionizing how we will work with our computer's data...
