I tried to cut myself off. It lasted a day. I can’t take it anymore! I need a the ultimate information manager. Does it even exist?
Give me something that will do all of these thing: be an rss reader, manage my email, a newsreader for my rec.music.phish newsgroup, tell me if my favorite websites are updated, update me on threads in my Orkut communities and let me post to it, tell me if my friends’ calendars have changed for Friday night, navigate through friends’ foaf, and basically make it so that I don’t have to waste my time checking to see if there’s new information in my favorite places. Oh and it should recommend things that I might be interested in, whether its something new at Amazon, an event on Craigslist, or a new website. Maybe what I really want is a TiVo for the web.
Perhaps I’m just lazy. Or perhaps I’m tired of the fact that all these communities, newsreaders, webmails, and sites on the web have become little islands unto themselves with no active connection to the outside world, and I, the cybertraveller, have to paddle out to them just to find out what’s new on each island. It’s not efficient, and I’d rather be spending my time writing.
I know that there are all these separate projects going on right now that solve some of my complaints here, but I want them to all come together and create the mother of all information managers. However, they can’t agree on a standard for some of this stuff, so how would they ever agree to work together?
