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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