DiSO Dashboard Outline proposal
I’ve been so immersed in writing up a treatise on how I see the world shaking out, I haven’t had time to get proactive and make specific contributions TO this world.
So here we go. My birthday present to the world - on my birthday.
The following is the culmination of some ideas I’ve had for a long time on the importance of Dashboards in our distributed world. I believe that Dashboards are a metaphor that ALL apps, services, blogs and social networks can share. Certainly NetVibes, iGoogle and Myyahoo can be considered Dashboards.
And Microsoft has one, and all social networks have them - in fact - I predict that ALL software will provide a ‘dashboard‘ to their users - if for no other reason, to hold their ‘identity’ in.
And when we all have something in common like a Dashboard, we can then have an Outline file (or page tags) which represents what the Dashboard contains - it’s content, your profile info and social graph, what modules and UI elements are INSIDE the Dashboard, what feeds you’ve subscribed to, it’s configuration info - everything.
So here’s the pitch:
The exciting stuff happens when you start to try and figure out how to do distributed friending or other kinds of distributed stuff. Having an outline of everything in the Dashboard will come in pretty handy.
Tags: dashboard, DiSO, distributed web, outline
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Some parts of the Dashboard beeing sources of events, it would be nice to make sure that each part is easy to reference/identify (i.e. much like DOM elements in a DOM tree).
That would make a universal notification system possible: when something changes, once would receive a notification with enough information to correlate the notification with the component that originates it.
One easy way to implement this is so called “client data”, which are data one provides at registration time and that forthcoming events carry with them.
Some parts of the Dashboard beeing sources of events, it would be nice to make sure that each part is easy to reference/identify (i.e. much like DOM elements in a DOM tree).
That would make a universal notification system possible: when something changes, once would receive a notification with enough information to correlate the notification with the component that originates it.
One easy way to implement this is so called “client data”, which are data one provides at registration time and that forthcoming events carry with them.
Awesome stuff Marc! We’ll have some interesting stuff to show very soon in relation to a lot of your thoughts.
Happy Birthday!
-Luke
Awesome stuff Marc! We’ll have some interesting stuff to show very soon in relation to a lot of your thoughts.
Happy Birthday!
-Luke
Marc, we wrote up your proposal at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diso_dashboard.php Hope I didn’t say anything in that post that will piss you off on your birthday
Marc, we wrote up your proposal at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diso_dashboard.php Hope I didn’t say anything in that post that will piss you off on your birthday
Happy Birthday Marc.
You know I bought the domain name status.me for such a project.
Happy Birthday Marc.
You know I bought the domain name status.me for such a project.
This is what I’ve been searching/dreaming/hoping for! I can’t wait for it to finish… Am not much into the tech details but I hope it would have a “post-to-all or selected site/s” feature to make blog posts/announcements a one-click post-everywhere thing.
Would this be THE Killer App?
This is what I’ve been searching/dreaming/hoping for! I can’t wait for it to finish… Am not much into the tech details but I hope it would have a “post-to-all or selected site/s” feature to make blog posts/announcements a one-click post-everywhere thing.
Would this be THE Killer App?
Great outline Marc. I think this is the future, and i can’t wait until it really transpires. I think a lot of people are starting to put things together on their own sites.
Great outline Marc. I think this is the future, and i can’t wait until it really transpires. I think a lot of people are starting to put things together on their own sites.
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This would be great. I commented about it here…
http://www.strategicblend.com/where-does-it-all-go-in-the-end/
This would be great. I commented about it here…
http://www.strategicblend.com/where-does-it-all-go-in-the-end/