A very slow transition to 1st life
(picture by Guido Van Nispen)
As time goes by, I start to wonder if the internet is going to be the first choice of channel to create communities, markets and conversations. Now I am almost sure that it’s going to be a part of the process, but it definetly wont be first choice of channel. When we talk future here, I would say 5 years from now.
However I do believe that Wifi is going to be controlling most of our 1st life items in a year or maybe two.
And I think the “web 2.0” companies should consider moving into 1st life – though still hanging on to the web of course, perhaps for administrational reasons but really explore the ” installations in 1st life” to be made to make the users even more happy ( and a bigger part of the community).
In the meantime I will urge the clever geeks of the world to come up with the “whatever is missing” to make the very slow transition away from the internet and back as installations in 1st life, as smooth as possible.
So right now, this is what I want to see being developed
I want 23 to make a photoscreen (photoframe) where all my pictures are rotating – like their slideshow that I displayed on this blog a couple of days ago, but in an actual installation in the home.
Now, I know that Philips is doing some really neat photoframes where pictures are rotating, but to actually bring the community into your house ( with the web as administration) and actually make community, customized and personalised installations and design. WOW !- but make the user the administrator - that would totally rock.. make people being able to send picture to each others photoframes! - remarkable !
I want jaiku on my SMS’es now – and I want it to be more categorizable than Twitter, I want to be able to say when I want sms’es from who and I want to be able to administrate and group Jaiku however I want.
But guys, listen up – this is what you should be doing. Making your web app an installation in a home. No even better, make a part of your product an installable in 1st life. Don’t get out of the internet, but start thinking future instead of web 2.0. Make the slow transition…
Ohh and if you nobody told you :
February 20th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I like the thinking here and re: sms on Jaiku, you have our ear
re: the photoframe, it appears Chumby and other open-source HW projects are opening up some fun opportunities. Although I have to confess we haven’t gotten around to plugging in our Chumby yet
February 20th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
yeah I have looked at the chumby and it looks darn cool - it isn’t shipping, but I have tried to get one of the prototypes… I will let you know what happens..
February 21st, 2007 at 5:11 am
I think we just got the theme for our next podcast…
February 21st, 2007 at 7:16 am
I think so too - but we need Ian Forrester in there as well *s*
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
Henriette, you need to add web 2.0 to the liftlexicon and declare it a “dead word” and then it can totally rest in peace there, say, like in a museum.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:15 am
will do =) excellent idea
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 am
added : http://liftlexicon.com/browse/thanks/web%202.0
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February 24th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Hi Henriette,
I like your line of reasoning.
Increasingly I find it uncomfortable that all these neat services I use to connet to my peers, really have just the one interface: my laptop screen. That is where the problem is. Because there is only a bit of it all that actually requires the focus of looking exclusively at a screen. The rest is peripheral. At home I use two screens, one for the focus stuff, the other for peripheral, and it helps, but not enough. Offloading the peripheral to other stuff than the screen, into your usual physical surroundings is an age-old proven response.
Thusfar the attempts are somewhat clumsy, like the Nabaztag wifi bunny. Others are ok, but still expensive (we just bought the (9 inch) Philips frame you mentioned for E250 as a gift for Elmine’s photo-crazy mom.)
Also a number of our favourite services would need to be able to ‘reside’ in multiple peripheral devices. E.g. I would love to have something like the Plazes/Jaiku equivalent of the Weasly clock in the Harry Potter books at home, but also want that information ‘to go’ on my mobile. (And the mobile mind you, will suffer from the same congestion our laptopscreen already does, creating a need for other mobile peripherals e.g. in clothing, or VR glasses or whatever)
Punching tunnels from the information landscape on-line (not just web, but internet in general) through to the physical reality of our everyday lives, and vice versa, is to me the singlemost exciting field of geekery development at this point.
February 24th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Hi Ton - Thanks for your always lovely comments - I think the one interface is indeed the problem, but I also think the web is beginning to become a problem, simply because the transition is so clumsy ( to use your own words. I think the web becomes pointless at some point because the peripheral devices are much more interesting and much more closer to you.
amd I agree about the most the exciting field of geekery - this is very interesting indeed.
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