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    • 22 Jul 2007
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    I just realized today that I have more than 30 accounts and service subscriptions spread across the internet. Hmm, is it actually possible to create an interface that would unify all these and act as a hub?  Possible features:
    • Have an overview of all accounts: A screen full of widgets (Hooray for info overload!)
    • Track how often each account has been used: This will help the user decide if that account should be disposed of
    • Possibly integrate feeds...but then, the user'll probably have another service to handle that so it's not important
    • List all/most (or at least the most popular) services on the internet
    • Social aspect
      • Rate services
      • View top services
      • View new services
      • View services in open/closed beta
      • Suggest services to friends
    • Possible interface between services...but not that important since other people has mostly done work on this already and a lot of services already have their APIs public.
    If OpenID or something similar was implemented long ago, this would have been easier.
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  • Be Dissatisfied. Do Not Settle.

    • 15 Nov 2006
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    "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." Is the glass half empty or half full?
    It isn't unusual to hear quotes or people telling me that you must be satisfied with what I have. I've been bombarded by these in my youth and ended up being generally satisfied with whatever I have and whatever idea, concept, suggestion and the like is thrown at me. But well, it also actually helps at times to be dissatisfied. It pays to see the glass half full to actually know what we need to fill the glass up. When it comes to criticizing things, I sometimes end up being overly generous and miss some or even critical flaws of what I'm criticizing. There are things I overlook because I'm so used to it or don't see what can be improved further. I miss the need or want to change, to improve, to update, etc. It is because of the need or the want that drives us to get more out of things. For years, we have settled for the current cell phone keypad layout. Personally, I never got used to this. I have a Nokia 6800 and open it up whenever I type on my phone. Being a computer user, I'm already used to a QWERTY keyboard and so why not use it? But should it just end there? Heck no. Actually it hasn't, since there have already been solutions that have been developed. Mobience and Nuance have proposed alternative and faster means of text input compared to the current cell phone keypad layout. Mobience offers a "universal text input solution" based on the QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile, Nuance offers another solution but is based on voice recognition. These two seem like promising solutions. I don't know if people will want to accept this change when they are already used to the current system, even though the new ones require less to no button presses. So, is the glass half empty or half full? Typically, the optimistic "half full" is the way to go but I should not end there. It is only half full (or empty) and there is still a half that can be filled up. Why not fill it up?
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