AS mentioned in yesterday's post regarding Home Networking, its not just about the hardware, but also the applications, the software that runs over the network (your home network and the Internet).
Marc is very passionate about this and is commenting here on others whom are re-discovering some of the ideas that he wants to develop.
Basically (and forgive me if I get this wrong) Micor content is about small chunks (hence micro) and content, i.e. text, audio, video, images. But the key thing is its about what you as an individaul create not big media organisations.
So a fairly simple example is using the pictures you have taken with your digital camera and creating online photo galleries. Or blogs (yes even this one!) and then distributing the conent with other micro-content creators to create a sum greater than the parts.
Perhaps more simply it could be about showing your photos (stored on your PC) on the lounge TV, backed by your favourite music tracks which you have edited together with some explantory text. Maybe its an audio file ecorded about the first steps of your child, or their first words. Maybe its developing an idea into a business proposition with people across the globe... There are lots of different ways of viewing this and lots of different applications that could be built.
Marc's vision is outlined (no pun intended) here, where the People's Mesh is discussed. This fires my imagination.This isn't about being a killer app, this is about ubiquity; embedding technology and content into an homogenous and yet diverse whole.
This stuff isn't quite here yet, but I can't wait until it is...
(I think I pushing the meme again!)
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 22, 2003 11:28 PM | TrackBack