I need a contact management tool that lets me add RSS feeds to individual contacts, so when I click on "Chris Brogan" it brings up one page with your latest Tweets and blog posts and Utterz and Seesmics. Thing is, *I* want to set which feeds are there -- I don't want FriendFeed or anything that requires each contact's participation.
Then this dream contact management tool could have one main page for "all friends" and that would solve your Seesmic/Utterz/Twitter problem!
I also need partial RSS feeds to go away. (Ahem.) I read almost 800 RSS feeds. With one exception (this blog -- seriously -- because you're that cool), if it's a partial feed, I unsub immediately. As an efficiency consultant, I can't spend all day clicking through, or I might as well have just bookmarked the URLs for each blog and gone through del.icio.us every single day.
Also: more hours in a day :)
scottwitter
· 1 year ago
sounds reasonable but look at all the middlemen that would be put out of business? I agree with the notion that there not enough hours in the day to track all of the things and ideas out there. Could it be possible that people such as yourself need administrative assistant digital clippers? Like Mahalo trying to sort out the 80/20 rule with content, some people need their own mini mahalos? twitter could be used for keeping your finger on the pulse... hmm sounds like there needs to be a new version of Steven R. Coveys '7 habits of highly successful people' but for the Web, blogs, social media types?
chrisbrogan
· 1 year ago
@scott- youre talking about the data part? I think human curation is vital. I just want MORE than that. I need better tools with which to curate. They can be done. Data is data. I just want the toolsets. I'll craft the curation.
NEENZ
· 1 year ago
I couldn't agree more, as I dive into this wonderful medium of social media and networking, I'm getting tangled by the seaweed of information. I need ease, I can't design it but I'd certainly buy into it!
Aloha, NEENZ.
scottwitter
· 1 year ago
Chris i was thinking about actual people reading and preprocessing some of those 800 blog posts. Doing a summary so you would know more efficeintly what is going on. I understand that you want all the information and you will decide what to do with it, but as more and more people blog and communicate you will reach limitations? Eventually need some way to deal with the flood of information from all sources? Not sure if you are but, what would happen to your ability to assimilate data if your browser did decent auto-translation and now you had an extra 800 culturally different blogs to track, today? and what about in 6 months, 1 year etc.
Twitter has not even begun to take off IMO. Its going to get insane with lots of very interesting people and media sources to follow, and devices to view and interact on. Imagine 20 NewMediaJims with simutaneous broadcasts, and user contributed content like Operator11... ok ok i ramble.. Imagine getting NMJ tweets and watching the broadcast on TV, and then getting live feeds from individuals on the ground with iPod touches with video, and people twittering links to associated blogs and videos.... now multiply that by a hypothetical 20, add in your blogs, and foriegn language blogs, facebook groups, etc... insane amount of information to track IMO.
Alex Landefeld
· 1 year ago
Chris,
all of these "needs" can be served by one evolutionary step that we've partially taken, but not fully taken. The amalgam of twitter, jaiku, myspace, facebook and countless others crossed with a more immersive Second Life crossed with Halo & Roddenberry's holodeck yields something like Jeffrey A Carver's books (http://www.starrigger.net) about navigating rivers of space. In our case, this begins with navigating rivers and landscapes of raw information, communications, picture feeds and mental movies. But we have to be careful about moving from our social-web baby steps to the precipice envisioned in The Matrix - will we know to jack out and deal with our kids, our insulin injections (Piers Anthony's Killobyte) and the cutting of the grass?
..alex.
Jeff O'Hara
· 1 year ago
Chris, it may be time to employ a virtual assistant if we don't get the data wrangling tools we need.
Shaine
· 1 year ago
It would rock for me if I could log into my blog and see my email, have my Facebook and Myspace notices, RSS feeds, and all manner of information on my dashboard. Theoretically, it's my information, right? It should be easier to grab and link my own content or link to others content from one centralized place without having to jump around from site to site. I would not stop using those web services. In fact, having them feed directly into my blog's dashboard would simplify things for me greatly and cause me to use all those web services more.
bk127001
· 1 year ago
I’m on the beach. I want to browse the ebook to do finds and searches on parts I want to remember. I want the audiobook for the car.
You really nailed this one. I hate the fact that I read a book, and a month later remember some meaningful part, but can't easily find it since searching a hard copy book is soooooooo time intensive.
I recently purchased "Naked Conversations" from Amazon for just this reason - for $5 more I got a digital version immediately and forever (or at least as long as Amazon is around) that I can search, and I know I will - and I can get started reading it while I wait for the meatspace version to show up. Since there is so little incremental cost to offering this digital copy, I wish it was only a buck more, but for this one it seemed worth it.
Derrick Kwa
· 1 year ago
An idea that I had, which Marina from Sufficient Thrust recommended I post a comment about here.
Personalized start pages like iGoogle and Netflakes are quite static in that they tend to display the same feeds daily. But the real world doesn't work like that. We all have schedules. Some of us don't want to see our work email on weekends, for example. Even newspapers have different editorials/sections on different days. So why can't we have a personal start page that allows us to schedule when the different feeds appear?
Can anyone explain to me why anyone out of jr. high school cares about twitter? I am 49, my brother is 34 and neither of us can fathom twitter or its raging popularity among adults. We are both in IT and neither knows anyone who uses or cares about it save a few interns. Please I am honest in this question.
Brief one-to-many messaging. It's pretty easy. It's like IM, only with more reach, and handles unstructured messaging needs better than email, without a heavy overhead, and across SMS, IM, HTML, all into the same bucket. Pretty mean feat, eh?
The Notorious LB3
· 1 year ago
Chris Brogan... Here is what I want: I want to have a pair of headphones that connects wirelessly (EVDO/wifi/whatever) to my iTunes account so I can listen to podcasts, iTunes radio stations and my music. No iPod, no carrying music with me.
With this, i want my phone to be able to access my iTunes so I can watch vids.
Also, I should be able to login to my iTunes account from anyone's computer... watch movies, listen to music or whatever and then logout.
Maybe it is only possible with the iPhone and macbooks to start but let's carry less and increase access to our data.
This is specific to iTunes only because they are currently the number one, but what is Amazon started offering this accessibility?
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Then this dream contact management tool could have one main page for "all friends" and that would solve your Seesmic/Utterz/Twitter problem!
I also need partial RSS feeds to go away. (Ahem.) I read almost 800 RSS feeds. With one exception (this blog -- seriously -- because you're that cool), if it's a partial feed, I unsub immediately. As an efficiency consultant, I can't spend all day clicking through, or I might as well have just bookmarked the URLs for each blog and gone through del.icio.us every single day.
Also: more hours in a day :)
twitter could be used for keeping your finger on the pulse... hmm sounds like there needs to be a new version of Steven R. Coveys '7 habits of highly successful people' but for the Web, blogs, social media types?
Aloha,
NEENZ.
Twitter has not even begun to take off IMO. Its going to get insane with lots of very interesting people and media sources to follow, and devices to view and interact on. Imagine 20 NewMediaJims with simutaneous broadcasts, and user contributed content like Operator11... ok ok i ramble.. Imagine getting NMJ tweets and watching the broadcast on TV, and then getting live feeds from individuals on the ground with iPod touches with video, and people twittering links to associated blogs and videos.... now multiply that by a hypothetical 20, add in your blogs, and foriegn language blogs, facebook groups, etc... insane amount of information to track IMO.
all of these "needs" can be served by one evolutionary step that we've partially taken, but not fully taken. The amalgam of twitter, jaiku, myspace, facebook and countless others crossed with a more immersive Second Life crossed with Halo & Roddenberry's holodeck yields something like Jeffrey A Carver's books (http://www.starrigger.net) about navigating rivers of space. In our case, this begins with navigating rivers and landscapes of raw information, communications, picture feeds and mental movies. But we have to be careful about moving from our social-web baby steps to the precipice envisioned in The Matrix - will we know to jack out and deal with our kids, our insulin injections (Piers Anthony's Killobyte) and the cutting of the grass?
..alex.
You really nailed this one. I hate the fact that I read a book, and a month later remember some meaningful part, but can't easily find it since searching a hard copy book is soooooooo time intensive.
I recently purchased "Naked Conversations" from Amazon for just this reason - for $5 more I got a digital version immediately and forever (or at least as long as Amazon is around) that I can search, and I know I will - and I can get started reading it while I wait for the meatspace version to show up. Since there is so little incremental cost to offering this digital copy, I wish it was only a buck more, but for this one it seemed worth it.
Personalized start pages like iGoogle and Netflakes are quite static in that they tend to display the same feeds daily. But the real world doesn't work like that. We all have schedules. Some of us don't want to see our work email on weekends, for example. Even newspapers have different editorials/sections on different days. So why can't we have a personal start page that allows us to schedule when the different feeds appear?
You can read more of the idea at http://derrickkwa.blogspot.com/2007/12/schedule..., but yeah, just thought I'd take Marina's suggestion and see what you think.
Brief one-to-many messaging. It's pretty easy. It's like IM, only with more reach, and handles unstructured messaging needs better than email, without a heavy overhead, and across SMS, IM, HTML, all into the same bucket. Pretty mean feat, eh?
I want to have a pair of headphones that connects wirelessly (EVDO/wifi/whatever) to my iTunes account so I can listen to podcasts, iTunes radio stations and my music. No iPod, no carrying music with me.
With this, i want my phone to be able to access my iTunes so I can watch vids.
Also, I should be able to login to my iTunes account from anyone's computer... watch movies, listen to music or whatever and then logout.
Maybe it is only possible with the iPhone and macbooks to start but let's carry less and increase access to our data.
This is specific to iTunes only because they are currently the number one, but what is Amazon started offering this accessibility?