Maybe this is what I was dreaming about? Probably not, but ReadWriteWeb does a great job in this post craving for a tool that can blend all the social media sites together, so we can have one identity/knowledge share throughout the web, without the annoyance of checking everything we like. A little snippet:
Unfortunately, there’s no “Glue” for the social web. There’s also no happy medium between what it does – quietly observe, record, and share all your actions – and the control you have with a single, manual “like” on FriendFeed. The ideal social tool would be something in the middle. Not entirely passive, but also not requiring you to click, click, click all the time to register your opinions. What this may be, I can’t even imagine, but it would have to be something that ties the social web all together.
And why I am liking RRW’s site more and more, this from the comment section, posted by Todd:
Sounds like Ms. Perez and everyone commenting need to go back and re-read Professor Gelernter’s book Mirror Worlds…
“…Those are the goals of our lifestream. In our view of the future, users will no longer care about operating systems or computers; they’ll care about their own streams, and other people’s. I can tune in my stream wherever I am. I can shuffle other streams into mine — to the extent I have permission to use other people’s streams. My own personal stream, my electronic life story, can have other streams shuffled into it — streams belonging to groups or organizations I’m part of. And eventually I’ll have, for example, newspaper and magazine streams shuffled into my stream also. I follow my own life, and the lives of the organizations I’m part of, and the news, etc., by watching the stream flow.” – David Gelernter July 2003
Full Article on Read Write Web: The Perfect Social Tool
Wired Magazine profile of David Gelernter: Lifestreams












0 responses so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
You must log in to post a comment.