Soc: Information

[zimboptoo]

I envision a system where every bit of information and communication comes in by a sort of feed. Twitter, facebook updates, LJ comments, e-mail, texts, IMs, phone messages, personalized news feeds, blog and comic updates, it all gets queued up to be perused at your convenience, all in one place. Everything is marked with a level of importance, and

Comments

[far_wanderer]

I like this idea. The even bigger project would then be to get everyone to use it so it actually worked.

[zimboptoo]

Not neccesarily. The goal of the system would be to integrate all the existing systems on the end-user side. it's more of an interface, rather than a communications network of its own.

[thegelf]

Too much automation. I know no one who would be that willing to sacrifice that much control to a computer program, unless they wrote and designed the system themselves.

Also, I think you mean "disparate" not "desperate"

[zimboptoo]

Of course, a system this large would have to be highly configurable. But then, I am the person who both wants it and is considering writing it.

Yeah, I blame word spellcheck.

[keety531]

So, you mean Google right?
They have email, chat, RSS feed, blog feeds, twitter feeds, you can RSS your LJ to go straight to Reader, and they've just started the service called Buzz; a fully integrated fb clone.
Also, you know, Google Voice, which allows you to talk and text from your mail window in your web browser.
Only thing it doesn't do yet is automatically filter items by importance - you have to go into settings for that kind of thing.

[zimboptoo]

No no no, you're missing the point. It would be amazing and wonderful if I could figure out some way to convert everyone to using the same unified, comprehensive system; it would make my idea irrelevant. But I don't see that ever happening. Even back in the day when things were simpler, there were still several different Journal/Blog sites, several different IM services, e-mail providers, and all that. We're never going to become completely unified.
My idea is for a system that integrates all the disparate services on my end, the user end, so that I can conveniently participate in all of the services that my friends are also using, without having to switch back and forth between a dozen different sites and applications. That being said, of course, the google wave API could end up being the best framework for this system, assuming google works out some of the kinks and bugs that wave has right now. Maybe not ideal, but it has potential.