The biggest issue of storage in the coming years will simply be the management of personal files. How should people handle the accumulation of a lifetime's worth of data as they migrate from older computing devices to new ones? Some things are generic enough that you can assume you can pull them off the internet buffet style as you need them, but there are also some things that definitely do not fit that category such as family photos, etc.
Google could leapfrog into the next "Facebook" by doing to VNC/Remote Desktop/Hosting what they did to email with gmail. Give everyone a usable remote pc (whose interface adjusts according to the device accessing it) , one with cloud capabilities and the ability to install web applications with a few clicks. If there will ever be a decentralized FB that works through the semantic web, each application will need to be hooked in and have the ability to spider and data-mine, and always-on cloud-based pc's are the answer to that. Open sourcing such a system should also go without saying, otherwise all the hosting companies out there would probably go out of business :)
Is there some sort of metric out there that quantifies the number or percentage of people that care enough about privacy to drop out of Facebook in disgust? What if FB is right and most people don't care about comprehensive privacy features? It may simply be enough for FB to keep random stalkers and identity thieves away. It's easy to imagine that the Ebay effect will stick to FB and it'll be the only heavyweight social network site around for some time.
Make the chumby into a sleek, passively charged thinclient and you could have something that might compete in the ipad space as a home internet appliance. Make sure you have stuff like a camera, mic, touch screen, accelerometer, decent speakers and you have a lot of possibilities (it sits somewhere and displays a slideshow/clock/widgets, you pick it up and you could take skype calls or video chat directly with another networked device, record something and have it saved on the main pc, etc) The key though would be to make it cheap enough so that you could buy several and network them together in a household/office environment.
Is uzbl windows-friendly or is it unix only? There are people that use Emacs outside of a unix/linux environment you know :p I wonder if something like this would be possible with Firefox.
The last I heard is that Uzbl is currently unix-only. It is very possible that it will eventually become portable, or at the very least work under cygwin.
Looks like a message board to me. A lot of these types of technologies seems like variations on what's been accomplished with message boards and bbs's.
> One day, an entrepreneur will come up with a business collaboration tool that isn't based off a message board or a wiki.
I don't think that's really possible, as you're likely defining "message board" as "individual contributors make individual contributions over time" and "wiki" as "individual contributors co-author centralized contributions." There aren't really any other approaches to collaboration, online or off.
I tried zsh on cygwin and I found the behavior to be odd when resizing the terminal window (using a number of different terminal interfaces, rxvt, putty, etc). The screen wouldn't redraw as one might expect. Is this common to all zsh or is it just a cygwin issue?
