the future-maybe.

How not to be seen | Plexus

i want this to take over the world.

biggest stumbling block is initial work investment to set things up, so i don’t see the non-geeky public joining in. I suppose that’s why facebook works with all its handholding (aka essentially hidden and/or obfuscated preferences), though everything has its learning curve and plexus is far from a completed solution.

with luck, being open, decentralised and distributed it could be used in its initial purpose by power users and also become the wiring under the board for everybody else.

taking a step back, the solution doesn’t have to be this, nor any of the current SOAP, RPC, etc technologies, I’m just really keen to see something, some _one_ thing, tie all our ways of interpersonal communication together.

i remember being totally and frustratingly confused by the mozillamessaging website, pre-thunderbird 3.0 days, when it was talking along the lines of ‘join us to re-imagine what email can be’. I honestly thought it was going to be some sort of zero-to-infinity answer tying together status, tweets, notifications, alerts and emails and anything else along the very broad continuum of text interactions.

and because just about anything can be alerted with or converted to text we could abstract the layers further and at some point stop calling it email traffic. we then have a single pipeline and the opportunity to change how traffic is transported for performance or any other benefits (perhaps something secure, anonymous, authenticated, whatever your own point of view, i’d really like to start with getting rid of SPAM!).

reading about plexus has reminded me about the confusion reading about thinderbird3.0 and the hazy ‘future-maybe’ i was imagining.