Furthermore, someone with deep pockets (*cough*Google*cough*) should go out there and frickin’ buy up Flickr, Friendster, Plazes and all these similar services and roll them all into one mammoth ‘myLife’ plugin for your weblog. It’d be the greatest combination “about me + blogroll” system ever. People are using these systems with increasing regularity, but it’s getting too bloody complicated. Maybe this is the next arena for someone like Apple to tackle: a combination of these social software apps with some blogging software, something that brings all this mess together into one spot. I think this is where the next big chunk of Kottke’s Web 2.0 concept will be coming from.
Hmm. There’s already stuff like this going on; the Rendezvous system built into iChat kind of does what Plazes is supposed to do anyway: show you who’s around, but iChat doesn’t let you link to a profile, or a weblog, to let you figure out who this random digital identity belongs to, or if they’re someone you’d ever consider exchanging syllables with…
Right. Too much thinking, not enough sleeping. Night-night.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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