Marc picks up on a post from Nick Gaydos about Digital Lifestyle Aggregators:
- take pictures and have them automatically posted into online albums
- jabber a thought into my mobile phone and have it recorded and archived into an mp3, posted on my weblog
- record what sites I visit, and keep them tabulated in a calendar
- nab the titles of the songs that I’m currently listening to embed events into a syndicated feed
- track my location over time with the gps in my phone and pda
To Nick's list, I'd add:
- record a song in the car, and download it onto my home system
- coordinate my pick-up and drop-off schedule with my wife, via cell phones
- connect on-line social networks together with my family
- have a central media library - for ALL my music, photos and videos - accessible anywhere in my digital lifestyle
- collect my RSS feeds, reviews, recipes, conversations and topics - in one place
Imagine if this piece of software existed, it would be fantastic! I would, as I have said before, buy one (or maybe more :) )
Marc's view is that until we have true broadband (above 25Mb) we won't see true digital lifestyles and I can see his point however as he suggests, there must be a market for this type of product. Linksys and Netgear both have products to try and aggregate types of content via a piece of hardware.