Picked this up via Ian Yorston's blog – Christian Lindholm works for Nokia and is responsible for Lifeblog. He recently posted some experiences gained from dogfooding his product, and comes up with plenty of interesting stuff.
I noted the 2 points below as I’m struggling with them now as I use multiple devices, PCs and operating systems at home and work. The energy expended in keeping data in sync increases with each new device – likewise the complexity: phone vs PDA vs Mac vs PC. And that’s just the data – application preferences also become a pain – install a new firefox plugin on one device and you’ve got to do it on all.
- Lesson 2: I have one life, it is seamlessly split between work and leisure. I really want to access it from anywhere. Can this become the norm or will corporate IT and security personel decide, what I store? They already decide what computer I should use, what apps to use etc. (OK, most people are not working in large organizations.)
- Lesson 3: I have one life and hence one asset of memories, it all has to be in sync. What would be a sync solution robust enough to manage 1 million files that can be anywhere and everywhere in numerous resolutions?
Yes there are solutions…but they rely on you reducing your choices: Windows or OS X or Palm. Web based systems – flickr, bloglines, etc, show a partial solution, but don’t help me when I’m disconnected. Recent initiatives like Feeddemon synching with Bloglines do show the way forward – but are still kludgy, and don’t help me get at my “behind the firewall” data.
Lots left to do.
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