Mobile Devices & The Internet

The possibilities really are endless now. The iPhone combined with networking sites have just opened the flood gates. The way people use computers and the Internet is going to change very very rapidly now. It's extremely exciting to be working in a time when a lot of industries are going to be turned on their heads. The question is not going to be what new developments are going to come out in the next few years, but what is going to come out in the next few days or months.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/what-would-google-do/

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/

Project Planning software

Today I have been mostly using openproj for project planning. It seems to compare well with Microsoft project and can do all the basic stuff just as well. There seems to be some general limitations with project planning software though that would benefit from looking at how object orientated software is written. If you could have the idea of funtions in planning software (re-usable groups of tasks with standard inputs and outputs), this would change the funtionality considerably. It would also make adding in or modifying a group of tasks that is used more than once very efficient. Maybe openproj, being open source, would be the ideal way to try this out... Will think about this more

http://openproj.org/

The future

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Originally uploaded by Andy Nesling

Linking and embedding data. The hardest thing is going to be searching & getting to the good stuff. I guess this is where crowds come in?

up and crawling

As always the best way to learn something is to get stuck in and start making mistakes so here goes...



Ideas today:



I'm sure that flickr/photobucket etc could give the stock photo webistes like shutterstock a run for their money if they started offering ways to buy rights to the the photo's posted there , through paypal etc. They have everything they need already in place with a community to rate the shots and a simple GUI, who knows. Either that or the stock photo websites need to make some rapid changes to bring them up to the usability of the photo sharing sites.



Sooner or later (or its already exists!) there is going to be a way to combine all the different social networking sites into one so you can just pick the best bits of each of them and wrap it all up together as a 'virtual me'. What you can do now is amazing, there are just to many accounts to keep track of and most of the time you want what your posting to be available as a status update everywhere not just in one place. It may well be that one of the main guy's; facebook, twitter, myspace, youtube, flickr, digg, blogger... can provide the way to do this by using it in a different way. It's interesting you can now get your flickr updates coming through in facebook