Movement
If you’ve seen me speak before, you may recognise this slide. It’s a mock-up for a technology idea I’ve been calling ‘RSS-I’. I’m now calling it Snap. I’ll talk about why in a second.
The idea is this: everywhere i go online, I’m asked to make choices. Choices such as assigning a bug to a developer, or moderating email, or buying or rejecting a recommended book.
I like making those choices.
But I have to go all over the web to make this choices. I have to visit, individually, off of those websites to do those time things. This is tedious.
Well, we had this exact same issue with blogs and news. And so RSS was invented, to syndicate text into the same place, so we could do the bit we really wanted to – reading – without doing the shining-the-light bit.
Why don’t we do the same thing with these choices? So that’s where ‘RSS-I’ comes from: RSS for interaction. Although I’m calling it something else now.
Anyway. This mock-up basically shows an RSS reader for dialog boxes. I’ve just taken the Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire, and pasted in examples of the streams of decisions you want to make, and once they’re all together you can deal with them simply. Dealing with bugtrackers, email moderation, deciding whether to buy recommended books. That kind of thing.
I’ve talked about this idea a couple of times.
Doing this talk I really though I wanted to explore it further.