but for a little more brain space!
Two things coming onto the scene are capturing “that little voice” inside my head. You know the one, saying “hmm, there’s something really big under here, I’d better take a serious look”!
Locker Project on GitHub
The Locker Project.
I’m a big fan of Jer, ever since we first met back in ’98, and concocted a partnership that sponsored and supported the growth of Jabber. His new start-up, Sing.ly (where the locker meets the cloud?), is sponsoring the Locker Project, which (I hope) means it gets the benefit of his careful and reasoned approach to open platforms and his vision about a “better open stack”.
On a connected theme, I’d go deeper in Doc Searl’s decade of passion for inverted markets, emerging through and above the awkwardly labeled VRM. I’d love to have the time to soak up where these guys see things going, but there’s just not enough room in my calendar or (especially) in my brain for this right now!
Color.
So, a part of me winces at the way this product has come to market – it feels contrived and forced, blasting onto the scene with $ugar daddy infused gusto. Part of me wants more brain cycles to understand the genius(?) behind making an app that only gives users value when/if it’s used by a group, and why it doesn’t leverage the hundreds of millions of geo-tagged base of images stacking up all over the web already. But, let’s put that “if it were me” musing and grumbling aside.
A bigger part of me would dearly love to have time to be a student of the patterns that a really smart team with a lot of money will instigate into formation, and put a small smart team on the API [I hope, please say it's so, Color people!] – because the value will be in the derivatives, not the app. A serious run at creating a living geo-social visual collective record of the world is to be admired and deconstructed!
Personally, I’m more intrigued with the notion of my personal location graph of place and time, and doing my own stacking and visualization mashing. However, that’s in part because I am commercially intrigued with how this might combine with my interest graph to become a superior foundation for local shopping.
But, alas, by brain is happily full, so I’ll just enjoy the ambient awareness that Twitter & Quora occasionally bring to life on these highly divergent new construction zones – one by a craftsman, the other by a master developer.
