Comments on: Actions/Thoughts From TDIA

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:32:29 +0000

I think it'll be like anything else...it'll start out as a small group of
alpha geeks that will demand real time presence, innovation will occur and
create useful applications out of it, then people will get used to it, then
2 or 3 years later, it'll be mainstream. You'll see...

The trick, and you're right to point to privacy as the main issue...is that
people will want to control who sees what and where. Suppose it starts out
as a "whitelist only" service (where you have to tell the service where to
display your identity in order for it to work)..that way, you'll be able to
control where you show up. I touched on this at the very end of my "Public
Vs. Private" post a few months ago. either way, it's an interesting
question. I wonder where the 2010 web trajectory will go.

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:03:34 +0000

At what point does the “allowing us to display presence in real time” become
an invasion of privacy. You know I'm a fan, I'm just playing devils
advocate…

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:58:36 +0000

It'd be a great idea. I see the web heading this way. The semantic web
movement will glue everything together (horizontal) and then improvement in
tracking and analytics will start tracking us and allow us to display
presence in real time.

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:51:22 +0000

Maybe Facebook will allow developers to use the same “real time, I'm on
Facebook” chat feature within other websites.

Not a bad idea huh?

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:34:08 +0000

Totally agree….the next thing I want to see is real time presence on websites and blogs. I want people to know that I'm there WHEN I'm there. Hopefully something that'll start to be built into the 2010 web. MyWebLog gets close, but it's still a trail of breadcrumbs. Too bad it doesn't highlight your avatar when you're still physically on the site.

Yeah…Building43 is creeping up on mine too. You'll see it up there with ReadWriteWeb and Mashable in a few days no doubt.

By: Ryan Graves

Ryan Graves — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:52:23 +0000

BlogRollr is definitely moving in the right direction. Bring to light what
you truly are consuming not just what you chose to share. This goes right
along with the Building43 manifesto point about transparency!

If you watch my BlogRollr, Building43 is creepin' on up.

By: Steffan Antonas

Steffan Antonas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:44:43 +0000

Fred Wilson's been using it for a while, right? I dig it. In fact I just added it to my blog as well after reading your post (you trendsetter, you ;-)). Traditional blogrolls are dying, in my opinion. There's just no way that people have time to maintain static lists anymore – my Twitter/Friendfeed stream has been the most accurate reflection of what I read day-to-day, but Blogrollr definitely has a solid value proposition. Having a list that generates dynamically is perfect – it gives blog readers a true, authentic representation of what you read regularly….now I've got to populate this sucker with some data. :). Good stuff. Btw, did you read the Building43 Manifesto that went up today?

By: Steffan

Steffan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:32:29 +0000

By: ryangraves

ryangraves — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:03:34 +0000

At what point does the “allowing us to display presence in real time” become
an invasion of privacy. You know I'm a fan, I'm just playing devils
advocate…

By: Steffan

Steffan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:58:36 +0000