Context Aggregation…
My buddy David Henderson wrote a very interesting post about context aggregation. David is a smart dude and has lots of great ideas. Although, sometimes his thoughts are too visionary (he is two steps ahead of most of us)… I like to think of David as Boulder’s version of Steve Gillmor (and yes that’s a complement David).
Anyway, I think David is spot on here. And ironically this ties in with a post I recently wrote about a renewed relevance of the desktop.  In that post, I predicted a future trend where computing moves away from the silos (web 2.0) & back o the edges (the desktop) in the next few years.
If I am going to have some agent acting on my behalf that is collecting my attention data and it needs to know about ALL my interactions… guess where it HAS to live. Yep, on the desktop. Oh, and guess what else… I am spending less and less time in the browser and more and more in my aggregator clients. Now all my relevance data may sync via the network, but that bad boy agent needs to be where I am at all times and that is not at some Google web farm it is on my computer!
By the way, I don’t like the Intelligence Amplification name for this gesture either. The play on AI is kinda cool and the meaning is there, but the name is just not sticking with me at all… I have to keep going back to Brad’s post to recall the name and my Mom’s head would spin around that for a while.  Oh, and I know 99.9% of folks disliked the name Web 2.0, but it sure was/is sticky and isn’t that a good thing?  Hearing ”Web 2.0″ may grit in my ears now, but if it penetrates the masses this is a good thing for our industry.
3 comments November 29th, 2006