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Saturday, January 25, 2003

Huge Honkin Console

I want...

A real-time ticker application that will be updated using RSS. (Not the current "refresh to update" silliness in aggregators of today)
Publishable schedule items (to the rest of the world or a specific subset at my option)
To subscribe to lists of events that are occurring around my area geographically, and virtually and have those events appear in a calendaring application.
To use a blog or blog-like publishing environment (I'm thinking Zope with CMF) for a personal desktop heads-up-display console from which I work at all times.
A contact-management system that would make Harvey MacKay faint from information overload.
Notifications and ticklers (woohoo!) for the following:
1. People who've emailed me who I'm "officially due" to contact
2. Software projects and updates that I'm interested in but may not have explicitly subscribed to.
3. The same thing with commercial products (books, music, movies, etc.)
4. All of this to bubble up into the ticker application mentioned above as well as a "product wishlist" that's automatically maintained and published to a well-known location so I never have to answer the question "What do you want for (insert holiday here)?" again.
A database of articles and references to articles (and other reference materials) on a huge honkin' LOCAL hard drive that's accessible through automated AND manual topic discovery as well as a full blown search engine. (For instance: All of Shakespeare, the "30 days to a more readable blog" article set. Comments on my own posts off of UCCU.)
the built-in modem that comes with my computer to behave as my answering machine, saving audio transcripts of incoming messages as well as recording live conversations. AND:
1. Trap caller-ids and match them against my address book, entering the call event PERMANENTLY in an ever-growing log system.
2. A record to either automatically or at my option (selectable at run time) pull up references to the caller, and lists of communications over time. Including but not limited to:
  - Incoming and outgoing phone calls with speech-to-text generated transcripts
  - instant messenging transcripts
  - lists of instantly accessible emails between both parties.
  - cross-references between other parties involved in all mentioned conversations.
Intelligent Agents (ooh, blast from the past ;-) to be constantly indexing and searching the internet for other things that I might be interested in.
Fully functional annotation engines to work in conjunction with my window-on-the-web environment so I can mark-up both cached and remote versions of web pages for future reference.
The ability to publish these annotations (the way a few applications used to be able to do... uTok, etc.) so that other people can view them as well.
Ubiquitous PGP (or equiv) system for communication across email, instant messaging, etc. People will need to be approved to be added to the list.
Notifications when people read, comment on, or annotate anything I've published out in publicly-accessable land. (and all the other psycho TrackBack, Pingback features that have shown up in the blogosphere in the last year or so.)
Published playlists from iTunes, WinAmp and any other damn thing. Note I don't mean publishing the mp3s, just the playlists so I can compare with other people and see what music I might be missing in the world. (Hilary sit the hell back down and shut up.)
Remote whiteboard chatting (Jabber plug-in anyone?)
horrifyingly high-performance rpc mechanisms (XmlRpc for now, but something a bit more svelt in the future) to distribute this work load on my local lan however I see fit (or auto-balanced.)
Published blog entries (like this one) to auto-annotate with links to the right places (i.e. Jabber, uTok (no longer available.) , Zope, CMF, RSS, etc should all be auto-linked without me having to "create shortcuts" in Radio (which just took about 20 minutes).)
Integrated desktop:

liveTopics
Wiki
Blogging

Built-in mind-mapping and diagramming toolkits for charting ideas and representing them textually once the "virtual whiteboarding" session is done. (Not to mention the automated post-session analysis and discovery phase designed to extrapolate on behalf of the participants.)
That cool little thing from the AT&T commercial a few years ago where the girl plays the first 3 notes of a song on her guitar and the Agent goes and grabs the song title.
Live chatting and always on IRC with private subscription-only channels between circles of friends.
Newsgroups as RSS feeds, distilled into threads automatically, with a signal-to-noise ratio rating accompanying each article and group.
And I want it ALL in a unified source-accessable platform (I'll pay. Doesn't have to be open source. But I will need the source)
A massively flexible api for developing plug ins for the 50,000,000 things I haven't thought of and the 150 or so I'm gonna make money on and therefore am not mentioning here.

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