I’m just wondering how long it’s going to take for everyone to widgetize EVERYTHING on their web page the point where we can have a full customizable version of the netvibes.com pages…where we can access netvibes.com funcationality and web 2.0 widget options but point our netvibes page automatically to our own domain and then we edit the layout/css the same way we can with our wordpress blogs.
I mean there are flickr, facebook, digg, wordpress, blogger type widgets and we’re all getting to the point where our personal site really needs to just be a portal showing all of our feeds/blogs, account info for all our social crap, LinkedIn account/resume info, etc.
If we get to the point where everyone’s homepage is a widgetized layout/look and eventually Google let’s our widgets get fully indexed, then what is next? If we get to the point of full realization of the personalization utopia, where non web people can drag and drop the content they care about all over their personal homepage and then it’s done, what else is there to do? If someone would just tell me, I could start investing my money.
-Rich
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Homepages and widgets | How to Make Your Users Happy // March 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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KBH // March 24, 2008 at 4:53 pm
2 years till everyone is on the open widgit anywhere bandwagon. Even MSFT is jumping on board.
Q. The next thing? A. the internet computer with integrated software apps. Drag and drop apps that you can add to your personalized start page. Think of the start page as the new computer desktop. The laptop is gone, you simply have a phone with an interactive screen, or that projects a screen and keyboard grid. Google, Apple, and even MSFT are moving toward this.
47project // March 24, 2008 at 8:43 pm
KBH – Thanks for the post. I think an internet computer with integrated apps will go a certain distance for the non-tech user or main stream audience. Apple has succeeded in trying to create a system that caters to both power user and simpleton and making everything integrated and as web-centric as possible with Leopard. They’ve ’sort of’ widgetized with their Dashboard app but they haven’t made their dashboard a more central part of the OS, which may or may not be useful. On my own Mac running Leopard I haven’t checked to see if there’s better integration between the dashboard and the desktop yet.
As far as the laptop’s being ousted by super phones, that line is already blurring with the current line-up of smartphones. The only issue there is that you will NEVER be able to high quality video editing, web/print design on a phone….ever.
-R