Peter Kaminski

following up on a mailing list...

Andrius/Jerry,

Imagine a desktop message bus or message cloud to which all your desktop applications posted details about what was going on inside themselves.

Your email client tells the cloud, "Hey, he's reading a message from Andrius Kulikauskas, and it's about things like Linkido and Lucid." Your web browser says, "Looks like he's doing a web search for <stephen danic>."

Your friendly dashboard app takes all this in, and tells the web browser to pre-fetch some of the pages related to Minciu Sodas and Lucid Fried Eggs. The dasboard picture viewer pops up little pictures of Andrius, Ton, Bjoern, Jerry, Stephen, and some of Jerry's latest moblog pics. The link navigator shows some related links and blogs it just found on Technorati. Etc. and so on.

(Now, imagine tying your X-10 home automation into that message cloud, with proper safety interlocks. Or RSS syndication in/out, with proper privacy interlocks. Etc. and so on and on. :-)

Enter cluepackets (I love this term!), Dashboard, Beagle, D-BUS, cross-clue matching, word-stemming vector-based indexing, and more.

Here are a bunch of links I've accumulated that say more:

• Beagle and Dashboard Wiki - cluepackets
• Karsten M. Self on some of the potential for AI pratfalls
• Dashboard description
• Desktop XML messaging with Dashboard
• Hmm, cluepackets, X-10, and a pretty SVG representation?
• Dashboard blog (reminds me that MyLifeBits is somehow related)
• Evocative dashboard blog post
• Your personal information space (Dashboard and Beagle)
• D-BUS

This post is hereby placed in the public domain by its author, Peter Kaminski, on 2005-01-12, in recognition of the spirit and contributions of Primarily Public Domain.