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24 Jan 2006
Come to me Web
Thomas Vanderwal talks about the Come to Me Web. I have the impression that he is talking about a Recommendation Service, but then on the MicroContent Item level. When consuming a single MicroContent Item, a user should be able to see related MicroContent Items, i.e. get recommendations of related Items. He emphasises that these Items should have an author and permalink(?) connection, so that a user can traverse this flow of Itmems in various ways.
Thomas Vanderwal explains his concepts a bit more in this post. He mentions the idea of metaphors in the article, i.e. what we are doing on Internet is initially copying of the same thing in the physical world. And after that we start to invent new ways of working in the digital world. It reminds me that adoption by humans is a very slow process. It takes a long time for people to change a habit, even if the technology is more than ready. By copying the real world metaphor, one might hope that people adopt faster. It is also a reason why we see the same service introduced over and over again. The problem with introducing a new service is also the adoption of the users. Users must be ready to change their way of working and most often they are not yet ready, so a service fails. Didn't Nolan have an IT adoption curve where he explains this?
The my focus in the article is interesting. The idea of My MicroContent Items is getting hold. A user likes to have his MicroContent Items always available. And this is where one will see progress. I agree with the device independent idea. However I think that this is only an issue for the very connected people. For the most of us it is very far out. One indeed sees that people are creating their personal infoclouds with images and music. But that is all there is at the moment. All other MicroContent Types lie still in the future.