The Portable Data Account Manager
This is my newest concept that I will one day attempt to put into reality.
If you've been reading my blog for the short period of time that I've been writing it, you'll have noticed that I have a lot of interest in standards such as HTML5, XHTML, Microformats, and the newest concept group, DataPortability.
Since I learned about DataPortability, I've been excessively interested in the idea that I would be able to share my data between websites. If you've paid attention to my twitter, you'll notice that I even went out and created such a test system on my website. I have an OpenID, FOAF, and XRDS all hosted on my own personal web server. The next step I want to take? Creating a beta system for account management. Unfortunately, one of the only things that is holding this back is how it would work. How are websites supposed to query for your XRDS, your FOAF, your APML, RDF, and so forth? You obviously don't want them to just directly download the feeds off of the webserver by themselves. Why? Privacy controls. We need privacy controls and the only thing stopping me from creating such a system, are these privacy controls.
My ideas already span over the concept of having multiple systems. For example, certain data would be added or excluded to your "Professional" FOAF and the same for your "Social" FOAF. The concept even goes over the fact that you could create as many FOAF, XRDS, RDF, APML, etc. systems so that you could share only the data that you want to share with certain websites. And that this interface.. this GUI would help you manage it all, from a single OpenID login.
Yes, it sounds impressive. But I'm not quite there yet. First thing I need to do, will be to create my own OpenID server. And by that, I don't mean download the newest PHP OpenID client/server I can find, I mean reading over OpenID 2.0 and its accompanying standards and program one from scratch.
What do my readers think of this idea? Do you like it?
What Windows Vista would have been
After about five years, people were wondering what Windows was doing and why their operating system wasn't out yet. Businesses and Technology enthusiasts were pushing Microsoft to release their next big upgrade, but Microsoft's technology specialists weren't anywhere near finished with Windows Vista. There were a lot of features that they really wanted to put into it, and judging from some YouTube videos I've seen (some of which may not be authentic), Windows Vista was going to be one hell of an operating system, with one hell of a GUI.
After being rushed, they took away the WinFS, which was truly going to be a revolutionary file system (or so they say). But they also toned down the GUI a lot. And I can see why. Even after Windows Vista was released, there was a lot of complain over how computers that were marked "Windows Vista Capable" were only capable of running Windows Vista in basic mode, not with Aero capabilities. Imagine how much more infuriated people would have been if the GUI had in fact been much better. Computers (considering how bloated Vista is) would have needed to be much faster, and have much higher computer requirements.
This is my opinion anyway, based on some videos I watched, although, I can not confirm how authentic they are, I've posted some links below:
Enjoy yourself ^.~
Until Later,
Navarr