Or maybe not…
I talked with Bart a bit about my ideas from last night, but it seems those were already launched with x.500, but never really took off. Which is a shame. Still, I have a nagging feeling that I’m overlooking something about information-enabling users. Maybe not in the address books, but with something else that I should be able to think of. It’s like it’s on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t spit it out. But it might be something that we can really make a bang with… Or maybe it’s just a fancy of the mind after listening to too much “Tsjakka”-talks at ITC.
Taalverloedering of niet?
De laatste tijd is er veel op het Internet te lezen over taalverloedering door SMS en MSN taal. Laatst heb ik hierop gereageerd op één of ander forum op het Internet en vandaag kom ik dit artikel tegen in de RSS van Onze Taal. Niet dat ik zo’n taal-nazi ben, maar het is best interessant om regelmatig van dit soort artikels te lezen. Ik ben het overigens helemaal eens met de deskundigen in de tekst, het is geen verloedering, maar een creatieve uitspatting als gevolg van technische beperkingen of mogelijkheden (in geval van SMS, beperkingen, omdat je zoveel mogelijk in 1 berichtje wil krijgen en in geval van MSN van mogelijkheden, want ineens kun je letterlijk je woorden versieren).
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While reading up on the probably-not-really-neutral (due to the NPOV dispute tag) of Wikipedia’s description of Web 2.0 the thought arose to do some research in those identity-systems that were so heavily discussed on /. recently. It’s on my ToDo.
Some random thoughts
I just listened to about 55 minutes of Tim O’Reilly talking at a MySQL conference last April. Some of the things he said made me think a lot about the future and the way it’s all heading. Maybe as a startup company, we should think more about Web 2.0. I know, the term is vague and usually is described with a listining of a few examples. But we could use the momentum Web 2.0 is gaining towards our advantage.
For example, contact-wise: Why should every company have their own address book with information about all of their contacts, when it would be far more convenient to distribute your own internal addresses, containing only your own “end points” for others to see and search? There are ways to publish your own address book online and make it easily searchable for others. Also, there should be ways available to lock certain entries and only allow their access on a per-requestor basis. LDAP with a front-end would do the trick, I think. I’ll think a bit more about this later. vCards are cute, but networked information is the future. I should look at the vCard specs tomorrow to see if it could contain a “update me at
Even though the Information Age looks like it’s piquing now, I think we’re only at the start of it. Centralized information deposits, like Tim O’Reilly talks about, will be instrumental in creating even more up-to-date information, ready at your fingertips.
We really should look into the possibilities for this traject. Not so we become a programming house (we don’t want that (yet)), but to see if we can plan our own “Office of the Future with Technology from Now”. Information processing should enable real work enhancements. We’re just starting to see the real possibilities. Mark my words, we’re only at the beginning of the Information Age…
Tim’s talk is on IT Conversations, btw, but I’m too tired now to search for the URL… Maybe Apple can do it like this… Nope… ah well, tomorrow.
