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June 15, 2006

From little seeds do great ideas grow

True or false? You decide.

There will be three desktop clients through which you conduct your life. Browser wars ("Episode 1" ... or was that 4?) was only the beginning.

  • The browser. "Their stuff" -- your lens on the outside world -- discover, read, and transact.
  • The messenger. "Our stuff" -- your lens into your social world -- connect and converse.
  • The manager. "My stuff" -- your lens onto your own digital artifacts -- search, edit and view.

Skype is/was the "new Netscape". Perhaps a few billion dollars was cheap...

Having played with Nokia Lifeblog 2.0 for a while, I think this is kind of a transformative moment for how we interact with the last category. It's still at the Mosaic-like stage of development (go read your browser wars history), but it's useable. I look forward to the Windows Explorer paradigm going the way of MS-DOS.

No time to blog further on this one. Time to let the idea stew and simmer.

Posted by Martin Geddes at 5:25 PM
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