My Quest For A Personal Dashboard - Brad Feld - my response... (Original Article Here!)
Brad, this is the digital nirvana question, but I would suggest that what you think you want, isn't actually going to be what you want...at least not yet. (Certainly in terms of investment areas!)
I have exactly the same dilemmas, and suspect we could both use existing tools to facilitate most of the above. There is one key issue, though highlighted of late, which is 'trust'. I only have the privacy of one business (about to launch a highly disruptive model and with some key players) to worry about, but you have many. Are you really confident in a future where all your dialogue, social interaction, facts and figures are cloud hosted by one provider? I'm certainly not. It is that reason I stick with Exchange not Gmail and store my financials et al locally.
I think the next big business model is for the provision of a tangibly private hosted solution, perhaps with a new universal encryption model which convinces me as a consumer that all my data can only be accessed by myself or those I choose. Only then might I be tempted to lock my life into one dashboard. Maybe Dell et al, could have a new lease of life, providing personal servers, which operate in a cloud environment, protected by firewalls and multiple encrypted offsite back ups. In other words, the box becomes your personal privacy wall.
The other big thing is filtering, which again I think needs to come first. Tons of news and entertainment sources will inevitably die and then a handful of feeds will provide personally filtered versions of what matters to us. We are working on that at Famebook, where apart from our 'famous people & famous brands' tag, we are also focused on subjective and not objective content, which we believe is the next huge shift in media.
Hope that makes sense...
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