I am still hooked on Marc Canter’s concept of the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Think of it as a local node that lets us have the best of both worlds: the awesome informative and communicative power of the distributed internet, and the centralization/aggregation of those bits of information created by, or most relevant to, an individual person.
So now I want my DLA to have both a front end and a back end - a public and private view. The public view will contains all of the data bits I want to be social:
- my bookmarks (an aggregate collection of del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl, and any future -url that may come into being)
- my public photos (an aggregate of my Flickr photos and…
well, no other service is worth mentioning, really
) - my blogs (an aggregate of The Unofficial Apple Weblog, this blog, my business’s blog, my personal blog, all of my photoblogs, and all the future blogs…)
- posts I have made on other blogs (see sidebar on this blog for a woefully incomplete list of conversations)
- posts that I have made in message boards (trickier)
- some sort of aggregate of my media collection, media tastes and/or media recommendations (pull in last.fm, musicmobs.com, Netflix’s social component, All Consuming, when will the itunes Music Store get a comprehensive social component? etc.)
- public calendar, commentable. I want to broadcast where I’ll be, recommend events to others, and I want them to be able to recommend events to me.
- extra-blog conversation interface: my blogs are driven by my own posts, but I want a way for my friends/colleagues to be able to initiate messages and questions for me, as well: publically and privately. A sort of email/message board hybrid.
- An aggregate of my aggregates: syndicate my blogroll(s) for others to enjoy, and be able to leave local comments on. They can participate in any discussion on the external blog too, of course, but it would be cool to have the option to start up a more localized discussion on the post, as well.
On the private site of the DLA, I want aggregated everything that is relevant to interacting with my digital life: a centralized dashboard of sorts. It would include things like:
- Interface to bank accounts, credit card accounts, other online bill payments
- interface to all memberships and subscription services: Netflix, iTunes Music Store, etc.
- Interface to my cell phone plans (I am on Sprint and Cingular now on two different phones): how many minutes I’ve used, how many remain, how many MMS/SMS messages I’ve sent on Cingular because they’re annoyingly stingy about that.
- Interface to Gmail and to pop mail accounts via webmail
- Interface to any online orders I’ve placed and their status (not processed, shipped, FedEx tracking #s, etc.)
- Interface to all 8 gazillion social networking services of which I am a member or ‘user’
- Drag and drop interface to post to Flickr
- Blog posting interface to all blogs
- Interface to my also imaginary AI bot agents who have been
diligently scraping the web according to provided search terms and
concepts (may as well shoot for the moon here, right?
) - A del.icio.us-style note-taking application that functions almost exactly the same way except: a) notes are not tied to URLs, they can just be freeform thoughts and b) each note has a public/private flag
I will undoubtedly think of more to add to this, so I’ll just keep building on this entry whenever the mood/inspiration strikes.
[geeked]
What can I say - Barb groks it.
:-)
Barb basically rapped out the spec to our product that we're working on. Go Barb go!
New Digital Photography Search Engine
cuts through the Internet "noise" to
return only relevant Digital Photography
content.
New Digital Photography Search Engine
cuts through the Internet "noise" to
return only relevant Digital Photography
content. 09/03/2004 02:28 AM
New Digital Photography Search Engine uses revolutionary new "automatic preview" function to summarize search results instantly. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]
Stalemate on digital content?
Stalemate on digital content? 11/06/2003 05:00 PM
Rights-management schemes are threatening to put customers under proprietary lock and key. And critics warn that Microsoft is gaining too much power, from multimedia to corporate memos.
Stalemate On Digital Content?
Stalemate On Digital Content? 11/06/2003 09:39 PM
Incompatible anticopying technologies known as digital rights management (DRM) are being applied to everything from music files to Microsoft Word documents, and the lack of rules that can make these schemes work together is increasingly prompting calls for a standards revolution. By John Borland (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)
Tech Executives' Cozy Tax Deal
Tech Executives' Cozy Tax Deal 08/10/2004 05:29 AM
This case smells to high heaven. Fat cats skate away from their obligations, but you and I can't even consider such tactics. Surprised?NY Times: Tech Company Settled Tax Case Without an Audit. Remy Welling is a senior auditor for the Internal Revenue Service with 22 years' experience. But when she was handed the file on a company suspected of underpaying its taxes, it contained something she had never seen before in such a case: an agreement to close the audit before it had even begun. Instead of being given tax returns to examine, Ms. Welling was asked to sign off on a secret deal worked out by other officials at the I.R.S. The deal, she ultimately calculated, would allow a Silicon Valley company and its top executives to escape at least $51 million in additional taxes that she was convinced they should have paid.
Executives' Association of Greater Miami
Executives' Association of Greater Miami 08/17/2004 04:08 AM
Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation
Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
Executives' Association of Greater Miami
http://www.eagmiami.com/
Presentation Sources:
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http://www.BotsBlogs.com
Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial
http://www.SearchingTheInt ernet.info
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.
Time: 7:30am
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Location: Miami Airport Marriott Hotel, 1201 N.W. LeJune Road, Miami, Florida
More Open Access To Digital Content
More Open Access To Digital Content 11/17/2003 04:17 AM
While things like MIT's OpenCourseWare and the new file sharing of lessons from the Berklee College of Music are getting all the attention, the well known iBiblio has been chugging away for over a decade, hosting all sorts of content for free. Years ago, it was known as SunSITE, when it was sponsored by Sun, but it eventually became iBiblio, and is hosted at UNC. It's mostly known for hosting open source software, but is expanding rapidly into all sorts of open content that people all over the world find useful. The guy who runs it seems to understand that there's a value in giving away things for free - and says that he's told folks in the music industry how they're making a mistake in calling music downloaders pirates. He points out that the people who go to the trouble of downloading music are the ones who are most interested in the music, and thus should be the people the recording industry is most excited about.
Stalemate looms on digital content
Stalemate looms on digital content 11/06/2003 06:09 PM
globetechnology.com Nov 6 2003 5:28PM ET
MS on digital content deal rampage
MS on digital content deal rampage 01/06/2005 09:02 AM
TiVo, MTV and FOX Sports all signed up
Disney Sees Future In Digital Content
Disney Sees Future In Digital Content 04/05/2005 12:10 PM
Information Week Apr 5 2005 3:29PM GMT
Disney and Microsoft team up on digital
content, DRM
Disney and Microsoft team up on digital
content, DRM 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Disney and Microsoft have announced a partnership in which they will work together on digital media ventures using Disney content and Microsoft technology
Disney to Speed Digital Content Delivery
Disney to Speed Digital Content Delivery 02/10/2004 06:40 PM
The Walt Disney Co. and Microsoft Corp. agreed to work together to speed the availability of Disney movies, TV shows and other digital content on cell phones, personal digital assistants and a new generation of portable media players.
Yahoo links to free digital content
Yahoo links to free digital content 03/24/2005 10:10 AM
Digital content spurs micropayments
resurgence
Digital content spurs micropayments
resurgence 09/07/2004 06:38 AM
A growing appetite for digital content helps companies that enable small-ticket online transactions.
Disney, Microsoft to partner on digital
content
Disney, Microsoft to partner on digital
content 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
The Walt Disney Company will license Microsoft's Windows Media digital rights management (DRM) technology for Disney content on mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and future portable media players, reports Gary Gentile of the Associated Press...
Group Seeks to Conform Digital Content
Group Seeks to Conform Digital Content 12/10/2003 03:28 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 10 2003 2:10AM ET
Executives' Stock Options Cited in Fraud
Case by U.S
Executives' Stock Options Cited in Fraud
Case by U.S 06/04/2004 02:29 AM
New York Times Jun 4 2004 6:16AM GMT
Digital Assets: The Dance Of Content
Owner Acceptance
Digital Assets: The Dance Of Content
Owner Acceptance 11/04/2003 12:10 PM
Tristan Louis writes "Reading stories after stories about the RIAA lawsuits, broadcast flags, DVD holds for the Oscar, etc... I've started to develop a grand theory of digital assets piracy reactions, assessing 4 stages of reactions to piracy. I thought it might interest Techdirt readers." This sounds about right - though, I wonder if there's ever a point where the industry realizes how much time and money they waste in the early stages.
New Web sites to store public's digital
content (SiliconValley.com)
New Web sites to store public's digital
content (SiliconValley.com) 03/26/2005 01:37 PM
SiliconValley.com - Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a wide variety of digital content created by the public.
Hollywood's objections to digital
content may have far-reaching
consequences
Hollywood's objections to digital
content may have far-reaching
consequences 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Another, however, is to extend power and reach into your life in a way that simply was not possible in the days of VHS. Again, I would submit that this is as much about fair use as it was ever about piracy.
Nearly half of internet users contribute
digital content
Nearly half of internet users contribute
digital content 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Nearly one half of American internet users have contributed digital content to cyberculture, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project .
According to "Content Creation Online" :
- 21% of Internet users say they have posted photographs to Web sites.
- 20% say they have allowed others to download music or video files from their computers.
- 17% have posted written material on Web sites.
- 13% maintain their own Web sites.
- 10% have posted comments to an online newsgroup.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most active demographic group is those under 25.
MercuryNews.com | 03/24/2005 | New Web
sites to store public's digital content
MercuryNews.com | 03/24/2005 | New Web
sites to store public's digital content 03/26/2005 07:40 AM
New Web Sites to Store Public's Digital Content
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MarketResearch.Com And Content
Directions, Inc. Announce Agreement To
Implement Digital Object Identifiers
MarketResearch.Com And Content
Directions, Inc. Announce Agreement To
Implement Digital Object Identifiers 07/19/2004 02:52 AM
MarketResearch.com, the leader in global business intelligence representing the most comprehensive collection of published market research available on demand, and Content Directions, Inc. (CDI), the leading commercial DOI Registration Agency, today announced an implementation of digital object identifiers (DOIs) within MarketResearch.coms content and its related web sites. [PRWEB Jul 19, 2004]
Press Release - NewsGator Technologies
is Chosen for EContent 100 – One of
the Top 100 Companies that Matter Most
in the Digital Content Industry
Press Release - NewsGator Technologies
is Chosen for EContent 100 – One of
the Top 100 Companies that Matter Most
in the Digital Content Industry 12/23/2003 05:45 PM
As RSS & Syndication Trend Continues as Useful Way to Find & Organize Online News & Content, NewsGator Raises the Bar for Customers & the Industry
Denver, CO -- December 23, 2003 -- NewsGator Technologies has been chosen for the third annual EContent 100 List, EContent Magazine’s list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. The EContent 100 selection process combines editorial talent from EContent and Information Today, Inc., and relies on their collective experience in various corners of the digital content landscape along with their exposure to the visible activities of digital content companies.
Flagship product NewsGator 1.3 is a news aggregator which runs inside Microsoft Outlook and retrieves news from news sites, weblogs, NNTP (Usenet) newsgroups, and other information sources that support the RSS or Atom syndication formats. NewsGator was selected for the content delivery category, which includes tools and solutions for delivering digital content – from aggregation software tools to content delivery networks – as well as for the secure digital payment strategies.
Other categories for this year’s EContent 100 include Classification and Taxonomy, Collaboration & Knowledge Management, Consulting Services, Content Creation, Production & Digital Publishing, Content Management, Digital Rights Management, Fee-Based Info Services, Intranets & Portals, Mobile Content and Search Engines & Technologies. "We are pleased to recognize NewsGator Technologies in our 2003 EContent 100,” said Michelle Manafy, Editor of EContent Magazine. “We believe that it is tools like NewsGator that can bring syndicated content directly to a very wide audience, and open the door to new and exciting digital content distribution solutions.”
NewsGator 1.3 automatically integrates syndicated news items into
Microsoft Outlook folders for users to access immediately or at a
later time. New feeds are being published regularly, allowing
NewsGator users to easily and seamlessly find and subscribe to new
valuable content. In two weeks at CES, NewsGator Technologies will
be demonstrating the next generation of its products, which will
dramatically extend its capabilities in the digital content
marketplace.
Digital Bazaar Signs Content
Distribution Agreement with CD Baby
Heralding Bold New Music Initiative
Digital Bazaar Signs Content
Distribution Agreement with CD Baby
Heralding Bold New Music Initiative 03/14/2005 04:39 PM
Agreement allows tens of thousands of musicians to create new revenue stream by distributing their music on Bitmunk, a secure next generation file distribution network [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]
Top Broadband, Telecom and Entertainment
Execs Head For Vegas To Tout Content
Delivery Via Digital Media Partnerships
Top Broadband, Telecom and Entertainment
Execs Head For Vegas To Tout Content
Delivery Via Digital Media Partnerships 08/12/2004 02:07 AM
The anticipation of large revenue streams flowing from the digital delivery of content is fueling a whole series of innovative partnerships among content and pipeline companies, including leading operators, programmers, studios and distributors. Away from the commotion of large expo events, top executives from major broadband, telecom and entertainment companies are planning to pursue potential deals and development of opportunities at Kagan's Digital Media executive summit in Las Vegas, Sept. 22-23. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
Nero Sells Out and Integrates Video
Content Protection System from Philips
and HP for Nero Digital Recordings.
Nero Sells Out and Integrates Video
Content Protection System from Philips
and HP for Nero Digital Recordings. 01/06/2005 10:26 PM
Nero Sells Out and Integrates Video Content Protection System from Philips and HP for Nero Digital Recordings. It looks like if you use Nero to record broadcast-flagged HDTV and burn it, you'll get a crippled VCPS disc instead of a standard DVD. And you have to buy more expensive VCPS media instead of regular DVD-R/+R.
BitPass Merchants Introduce Annual and
Monthly Subscriptions - Website Access,
Digital Content, and Business Services
Available Via BitPass Subscriptions
BitPass Merchants Introduce Annual and
Monthly Subscriptions - Website Access,
Digital Content, and Business Services
Available Via BitPass Subscriptions 07/15/2004 03:18 AM
BitPass announced the availability of time based subscriptions for business services and entertainment merchants, rounding out its ability to deliver "by the sip", "live streams on demand", and via weekly, monthly, or yearly subscriptions. BitPass payments capability easily spans micropayments through subscriptions. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]
Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS
Hot Banana Wins 2005 e-Content Award -
Best Content Management System - CMS 04/08/2005 04:55 AM
Hot Banana Software Inc., a leading North American Web Content Management Suite (CMS) company, announced today that it has won the 2005 e-Content award for the best Content Management System. The Canadian e-Content Awards are sponsored by the e-Content Institute and were created to recognize and honor e-content products and services used by Canadian organizations and individuals. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]
Qwest: Financing set for MCI bid
Qwest: Financing set for MCI bid 04/04/2005 03:09 PM
CNN Money Apr 4 2005 6:38PM GMT
IceRocket Gets Financing
IceRocket Gets Financing 08/08/2004 01:42 PM
New Meta SearchEngine backed by some powerhouse VC's.
HP showcases financing
HP showcases financing 08/30/2004 12:09 PM
ZDNet Aug 30 2004 4:24PM GMT
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content
The Difference Between Online Content
And Broadcast Content 02/10/2004 02:46 PM
Major League Baseball made news last year for claim ing to own all in-progress game data - saying they were going to go after websites that reported what was happening at a game in real-time. It didn't matter that the law is pretty clear that you can't copyright facts - MLB believes that just presenting the data is a "rebroadcast" of the game. That said, I guess it's no surprise to hear that they now believe that web audio and video broadcasts of games should work the same way as television broadcasts with a content provider paying a huge upfront fee for the rights to the games, and then telling them they can make it back in ad revenue and subscription fees. Of course, the various internet sites they've approached with this plan have been laughing them out the door, and pointing out that they're not television stations, and they just want to provide something useful to their users - but aren't going to lose money to do so. While MLB has been at the forefront of offering streaming video and audio, it appears they still look on this as a broadcast medium, and not the interactive medium it actually is. They're doing their best to squeeze more money out of existing fans, rather than attract new fans, which is dangerous for the future of the sport. Not only do you anger your biggest fans, you also make it less likely that you're going to pick up new fans.
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web
Usenet Content Up For Grabs On Content
Hungry Web 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
The age old question of copyright and Usenet comes up again.
Hutchison 3G secures financing
Hutchison 3G secures financing 08/17/2004 11:12 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Aug 18 2004 2:46AM GMT
Dell set to debut 0% financing
Dell set to debut 0% financing 01/03/2004 05:57 AM
New York Daily News Jan 3 2004 5:13AM ET
Dell offers zero-percent financing
Dell offers zero-percent financing 01/05/2004 09:48 AM
ZDNet Jan 5 2004 8:52AM ET
Dell offers no-interest financing
Dell offers no-interest financing 01/03/2004 09:34 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 3 2004 8:17AM ET
Grok Description matches for Executives' Thoughts on Financing Content in a Digital Age
GrokA matches for Executives' Thoughts on Financing Content in a Digital Age