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Jul 08 2009

What's the Deal with Google Chrome OS, Google Chrome, GWave, Gmail, Google Apps

Category: social media — jmacofearth @ 4:27 pm

Is the OS heading into the Clouds?

Here's a picture of what's coming:

You're new computer is going to come with some software system to get the processor, battery, ram and hard drive to all talk to one another and power up together to become your "computer".
You are going to launch a "browser" or "os" depending on who you are listening to.
Within that App/Browser/System you will access all of your documents, your email system and the applications you need to use to deal with the various document types.
Most file types (.DOC, .XLS, .TXT, .PPT) will be handled without any brand named applications. You won't need WORD if the .DOC files is readable and editable in your "browser."
Your task-based systems (EMAIL, TWITTER, CONFERENCE CALLS, MEETING MGMT) will all be handled by the "browser."

What is left?

High-end apps like Photoshop or iMovie will sill require some direct access to your system, outside the browser. And high-end editing and financial functions will be handled within the Branded apps of WORD, EXCEL and CUSTOM LABELED APPS like Quickbooks or Great Plains.

But for the masses, and this is who we are really talking about when we talk about the "consumer," will not care what OS they have, nor will it make any difference for 90% of what they are doing: which is browsing the web, watching YouTube, doing Facebook and sending emails and IM/Tweets. Seriously, for that, you could use a 2-3 year-old pc running anything plus a modern browser.

So as Google lines up it's ducks (Browser, OS, eMail, Apps and Social Media management system {WAVE}) the folks in Redmond are trying to cook up an OS that anybody believes in (WIN7), a search engine that can even come to the same party as Google (Bing) and new versions of their vaunted Office applications that will be living closer and closer to the cloud.

It's going to be an amazing year to watch. Let's just hope the economy picks back up so these great innovations have the financial fuel to move forward with gusto.

I'm happy on my Mac OS (no Chrome browser available yet) and FireFox. And I have to use Office Suite to communicate with my peers. And I love Adobe's CS4. But I can tell you, I will not buy a Windows-enabled PC at anytime if the near future, unless you count Virtualized versions that run on a Mac.

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Jan 12 2009

The View – A Deeper Exploration (seeking a social media killer app)

Category: speed the web,tech opinion,trust & reputation — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

"The evolution of social media depends on the evolution of the browsing experience."

Open Source Collaboration is about Virtual Teams using web tools to manage and communicate asynchronously while still maintaining priorities and quality of communication. The first step on any new project (open or closed) is toÂ define the goal.

This post is only part of the challenge, but the goal of FFoFF has morphed into a process I refer to as The Cloud >> The View >> The App. And that process or workflow is the basis for a conversation I am intending to have with other simliar minded seekers. The goal is not to create the next killer app, or uber browser, the goal is to define what that evolved web experience might look like. And then, using free plugins, apps and browsers (0riginally FFoFF or FriendFeed on FireFox) to get as close to the goal as possible.

Through this discussion [preferably not a monologue] the intention is to articulate the needs and challenged of the next generation web experience. The evolution of social media depends on the evolution of the browsing experience. Things like secure transactions anywhere, on-the-fly translated content, consolidated profile management (across all of your networked sites) and public and private personas are all part of the puzzle that will drive the next generation of social media connections and networks.

THE VIEW
(an invitation to dialogue and collaborate to build the requirements and demo of the UBER UI for the "social web.")

The project
The tools
The rationale
The solutions
The view
The team
The genesis

1. The project

Defining the Evolved Browser or Uber App for Social Media

2. The tools

FireFox 3 is the development platform and interface.
The tools are widgets, social media sites, online apps, clouds of data and on and on.
And FriendFeed is my current choice for uber aggregator of social content.

3. Rationale

I believe we can iterate an Uber Interface (a VIEW) that will have amazing flexibility and require a ZERO DOLLAR dev budget.
My Firefox bookmark bar is already a sort of streamlined UI. It is not good enough, and constantly changing and evolving. But it is FREE.

4. The Solution – Usage models for the solution.

The uber social master VIEW
BrainTraining and Teaching VIEW
The newbie VIEW

5. The VIEW

A view is a design and grouping of FFoFF elements. A view is an iteration. A view is a proof and hypothesis.

6. The team

John McElhenney

7. The genesis

First I posted a Question on LinkedIN. http://tinyurl.com/firefox-plugin-question
Read a post by Steve Woodruff on his StickyFigure blog. And posted my comment to his One Interface to Rule Them All post. http://tinyurl.com/uber-search
Next as I was contemplating Steve's question I was inspired to put together a PPT slide of what I imagined the uber app to be.
Next, I created a room on FriendFeed http://tinyurl.com/globalsocialmedia
Next, I built a feed of the GSMC room and invited most of my smart friends to join the room.
Somewhere along the way, I read someone's post containing a reference to FFoFF as a joke.Â But in my mind it stuck.

Note:
I am searching for that initial FFoFF person and will post the link here poste haste. And if it's you, please jump in and put yourself on the TEAM. Also please see Socialwiki and Wikisocial for an evolution of this process to an open source directory project.

[Initial wiki page created 7-15-08]

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