Gates goes Digital Lifestyle
Once before in my life - Bill Gates and I were in sync on a rising fad. That one was called Multimedia and it went onto being something pretty big.
I got several calls and letter this morning from Vegas telling me that Bill just pitched “Digital Lifestyle” at his annual CES keynote address.
Welcome Bill. So here’s an open letter to bill.
First of all - how are you kids? Great! Glad to hear that.
Now ‘how yah gonna aggregate’ all that stuff Bill?
Are you gonna try and lock it all up under one Microsoft proprietary data silo? I sure hope not. My buddy Kim Cameron told me you’re beyond that sort of behavior nowadays.
Or are you going to acknowledge that perhaps us humans are creating our own stuff and we don’t necessarily want Hollywood content - exclusively.
Sure - sure - we’ll buy some songs and download some movies and we’ll even pay for them - but that’s not what we’re about. We need DLAs to integrate, aggregate and provide customization to our digital lifestyle.
We need DLAs to provide us built-in constructs - that assume that media management is integrated, that messages and conversations are pervasive, that personal publishing - in all it’s personifications - are exemplified as the ideal state of creatviity and baked into the core.
We need DLAs which can talk to other DLAs, understand social networks and mesh together millions of disparate networks together.
And MOST importantly we need our DLAs to gateway to Home LANs and our mobile devices.
In fact Bill - why don’t you come to our Mobile Monday meeting (next Monday Jan. 10th) - and let’s schmozoe about all this?
Thanks Bill - and welcome - again.
