Gen Kanai wrote:
Anselm,
Agreed.
Would you say that Apple's Spotlight in OS X and Google Desktop are
the first steps towards this kind of functionality in the future?
On May 18, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Anselm Hook wrote:
desktop operating system... I'm tired of clunky web interfaces that
only
manage one kind of thing. That it took del to break ground here is
wonderful but... when is this stuff going to get into our desktops
- and
start to deal with the other qualifiers we use every day? I'd like
to be
able to set contraints like 'all things tagged blue, of this mime
type, in
this date range and authored while I was in france' etc. I'd like
this to
be the primary way I order _all_ my stuff... not just a novelty for my
bookmarks. It is so matter of fact and so simple that it is scarely
worth
mentioning... yet operating systems that do this are still not out
yet.
Gen, Anselm,
I suspect that before this becomes ubiquitous at the OS layer, we'll see
this done in some sort of lightweight fast *cross platform portable*
application. Then I can use multiple versions of it, one on my iPod,
one on my laptop, one on my desktop, one on each of my server apps on
the 'net ( GMail, Yahoo ). I should be able to transparently
exchange metadata across *all* the platforms I use and sync across
all these. Searching for something on my iPod could suggest I go look
on my desktop. Why not ? Why restrict the scope to just one machine.
This issue of my tags existing in multiple places at multiple scales and
the technical problems created, I call Data 2.0
i.e. data in the folksonomy/Web2.0 world.
shameless plug
See my blog at http://tagschema.com/ and the article therein titled Web
2.0 needs Data 2.0
/shameless plug
As sexy as Google Desktop and Spotlight are, they are still point
solutions that don't encompass all my data - which exists on multiple
devices, at multiple scales, in multiple locations and I need to be able
to search across all of them transparently. OS specific solutions do
not work in this context, IMHO.
Nitin Borwankar.
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