During this wonderful explosive “bubble time” of free social networking services we are actively giving away any semblance of privacy, propriety, and intellectual property to any and all who offer convenient services. Each new social application produces a must-have, niche paradigm of connecting and communicating that leads us to sign up for their “free” service into which we cheerfully pour the most-intimate details of our lives.
But how can we go back and search for that great SMS, post, comment, picture, email message, thread, URL, or tweet we made two years ago? Where is the unified history of activity? When email dominated our interactions we could use desktop search or email search to find the thread. Now, however, there is no unifying index that aligns our communications by timeline.
Will a slick, new “octopus” cloud-based service come into existence that tries to unify the services we use? One hint at where we are going is this new cloud storage unifying system.
It abstracts the underlying services into one big disk in the sky. You can peak under the hood to tweak and see what it is storing on which service, but it unifies them for you conveniently and allows you to use them all as one big disk.
Will the evil search giant’s “dashboard” evolve into such a unified timeline view? Will their chrome browser crawl your history at other services (facebook, twitter) to mine out your posts, tweets, threads?
Which application or service aligns these disparate timelines?
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