Jon Udell Explains FeedSync and How It Might Benefit You

May 30, 2008

Microsoft is up to some interesting stuff with their Mesh project. I’m genuinely interested in what this will mean for us, insofar as it leads to a people-centric web, instead of device-centric. I’m so glad it got covered in a blog post by Jon Udell.

Jon Udell is one of my favorite smart people in computing technology. His podcasts with IT Conversations are top shelf (if you’re in tech, the whole series is great, but Jon stands out and helps me suffer through missing Daniel Steinberg’s “Distributing the Future” podcast). But I digress.

This is tech talk, but Jon helps us think about it in plain English. Check it out, because it should influence your thoughts about social software, web presence, and the power of a people-centric web.

Read the full article here

BONUS round: read this piece by Om Malik about the new iPhone’s GPS features and how it enables location-based services (LBS). Mix and match from Jon’s piece and Om’s piece, and if I had venture money, I’d put a BOATLOAD down on something in between.

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Comments

Comment by Darren Daz Cox on May 30, 2008 @ 6:18 pm

hmmmm but it’s Microsoft, i’ll have to wait until braver souls can check it for bugs that might infect/destroy my PC. remember Vista? is that fixed yet? The idea of allowing MS more access to my stuff than they already do just makes me warey.

5 gigs of free space for your files sounds good, BUT it just seems like a ‘trap’ hehe!

Comment by Whitney on May 31, 2008 @ 8:19 am

I read about the new iPhone gps, but I am using the existing phone that way already. While it doesn’t always pinpoint my location through the cell tower method with amazing accuracy, it gives me my “neighborhood; I can type things like “Pizza” into the locator, and it gives me the local pizza places, with pins; I can pick the one I want, hit the flag, pull up the location’s address, website and phone, touch the phone number and order take out or make reservations. I uae this feature all the time. And that’s even on EDGE. Not always brilliantly fast, but having the info available is simply amazing and I love it.