Some of the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator ideas are already in progress and some are in their infancy.
I'm excited by some of the stuff I see on the web and some of the things we are doing at work. Edict has been working on as part of a business intelligence and knowledge based system and much of it could be extended into the personal realm.
I wish I had more time to work on this stuff. Some of the business intelligence applications have a life outside of the business world, but are so memory and proc hungry that outside of a workgroup, it becomes a server hog.
Time and technology and money can fix that.
Yet, we are still held back by some of these limitations.
For example, right now I can log my location over time with the gps, but my constrain is battery life of my gps, pda or computer. Additionally, there are a heck of a lot of cords... maybe on of those new bluetooth gps'es could solve that problem.
Until then, here is a rundown:
- request: take pictures and have them automatically posted into online albums
- status: much software, no extensible meta data standards yet
- request: jabber a thought into my mobile phone and have it recorded and archived into an mp3, posted on my weblog
- request: record what sites I visit, applications i use, and keep them tabulated by date
- status: Edict's Helios technology does this, but for the whole world, it might need to be peer to peer, instead of client server
- request: nab the titles of the songs that I’m currently listening to
- request: embed events into a syndicated feed
- status: alf eaton has his ics event feed off of openam - there is some oddness between apple's implementation of timezones, and microsoft's. I've promised him my time for a web interface and I'll get to that.
- request: track my location over time with the gps in my phone and pda
- status: my pda does this, but developers are more worried about trip routing than passing data along to a web service
from marc canter:
- request: record a song in the car, and download it onto my home system
- status: more and more mp3 players offer recording ( but most companies view it as a voice recorder), but there is a whole untapped populus waiting for the replacement for a DAT recorder. Attention wardware developers: we want something small, but that records cd-quality audio with a line in and a built in microphone and tack in enough memory to record for at least three hours straight. Most lowend minidisc recorders don't offer analog line in - just digital / usb.
- request: coordinate my pick-up and drop-off schedule with my wife, via cell phones
- status: kids, parents, teachers, instructors and coaches have access to computers and can publish iCalendar files. These are pushed through some sort of syndication, and use SMS, RSS, email, or instant messaging as a transport. The trick is making the interfaces easy enough to use across all devices with a standard for event data. This is every parent's dream... and a cash cow waiting to be tapped. What Marc doesn't say is that he'd probably like to locate them with a gps so he knows where to pick them up.
- request: connect on-line social networks together with my family
- status: foaf. need some clarity here marc...
- request: have a central media library - for ALL my music, photos and videos - accessible anywhere in my digital lifestyle
- request: collect my RSS feeds, reviews, recipes, conversations and topics - in one place
- status: need a better way to deal with the information glut. in one place is great, but not in one list. need search, collaborative human review, ai, all rolled into one.
10:09:52 PM 
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