Take photos as an example. On the roughly 3 billion phones in the market rest billions of pictures trapped due to a lack of compelling service. Furthermore, many untold billions have not been taken because people still think of the costs imposed by digital cameras to PCs or even film. For the first time in human history it is inexpensive, easy, and fast to chronicle your life in a comprehensive, meaningful, narrative way. It now makes sense to record mundane, everyday experiences. Often times these everyday memories when preserved provide the greatest joy and information. Our brain tends to remember the “big” events. In the Kodak era we reserved our pictures for the predetermined, biggest events, but today all memories should be preserved. When looking back it’s the everyday impressions and memories that enrich; not just the momentous events.
Ibiograph
Combine camera phones with a service that automates assembly, creates a narrative, and publishes the story and for the first time in human history, widespread, detailed, ongoing biography is possible. Such a service provides individuals with entertainment and memory benefits and implies a rich historical record will be available to future generations, furthering the knowledge base of humanity. www.ibiograph.com.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Welcome to the party Tim O'Reilly!
We jest with the flippant title. Ibiograph is thrilled that Tim O’Reilly, a major influencer and visionary thinker in the tech world, reached an epiphany about the significance of the mobile phone as a unique and PRIMARY development platform, or channel for consuming services (depending on your whether you are on the “sell” or “buy” side of the specific transaction).
Ibiograph has applied this thinking for the last 2 years as we’ve developed the Ibiograph, our service for chronicling life using the mobile phone. Tim makes the point that the mobile phone is a completely different environment and channel than the PC. To fully realize the value of the channel, the mobile phone’s multipurpose functionalities and function must be integrated from the design stage of service development, not added on as an extension of an existing service. Much like the “search” paradigm constrains the thinking about mobile apps, the entire PC centric conception of the web proves limiting.
Tim argues the combination of the uniqueness (i.e., personal, ubiquitous, sensor filled, communication device) of mobile phones with the power of the cloud holds tremendous value; we agree. We also believe that the discipline of designing and developing for the mobile phone and the information efficiency required offer the opportunity to provide value creating new services for people.
This information efficiency requirement is very different than coding for the Web 2.0 PC environment and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Everyone acknowledges the bandwidth, processing power, and form factor constraints of the mobile platform. Over time Moore's law will alleviate these - in fact this is starting to happen now. But a good portion of the value people receive from an information efficient service will continue in perpetuity because of the human and environmental constraints; namely when using a mobile people are often on the go, so time and effort are at a premium. If a task taking 1 minute and 150 kilobytes using a Web 2.0 PC-first oriented service extended to the mobile can be accomplished in 8 bytes and 10 seconds, most of the time in mobile the latter wins.
An example of this thinking and development framework put into practical application is the Ibiograph's (www.ibiograph.com) service for automatically publishing networked, personal memory books (PDF), completely "authored" using simple text and picture messaging from the mobile.
Ibiograph has applied this thinking for the last 2 years as we’ve developed the Ibiograph, our service for chronicling life using the mobile phone. Tim makes the point that the mobile phone is a completely different environment and channel than the PC. To fully realize the value of the channel, the mobile phone’s multipurpose functionalities and function must be integrated from the design stage of service development, not added on as an extension of an existing service. Much like the “search” paradigm constrains the thinking about mobile apps, the entire PC centric conception of the web proves limiting.
Tim argues the combination of the uniqueness (i.e., personal, ubiquitous, sensor filled, communication device) of mobile phones with the power of the cloud holds tremendous value; we agree. We also believe that the discipline of designing and developing for the mobile phone and the information efficiency required offer the opportunity to provide value creating new services for people.
This information efficiency requirement is very different than coding for the Web 2.0 PC environment and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Everyone acknowledges the bandwidth, processing power, and form factor constraints of the mobile platform. Over time Moore's law will alleviate these - in fact this is starting to happen now. But a good portion of the value people receive from an information efficient service will continue in perpetuity because of the human and environmental constraints; namely when using a mobile people are often on the go, so time and effort are at a premium. If a task taking 1 minute and 150 kilobytes using a Web 2.0 PC-first oriented service extended to the mobile can be accomplished in 8 bytes and 10 seconds, most of the time in mobile the latter wins.
An example of this thinking and development framework put into practical application is the Ibiograph's (www.ibiograph.com) service for automatically publishing networked, personal memory books (PDF), completely "authored" using simple text and picture messaging from the mobile.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Future of the web from Demo08
Thanks to Greg Linden’s post, I watched portions of the video from the Future of the Web panel from Demo08. A number of significant points were discussed. Some of them intersect with what we at Ibiograph think about, work on, and solve.
1. Better understanding of language and meaning
Peter Norvig – Google “ better understanding of language and meaning, what people mean, better statistics, algorithms. Better communities ”
Ibiograph Approach and Solution: We agree with the problem but attack the solution from a different perspective. Ibio starts at the individual level with an understanding of personal meaning of language in context and over time.
2. People don’t want to search they want to accomplish tasks.
Prabhakar Raghavan-Yahoo “Divining intent, people want to run their lives., Retrieval engine is limiting paradigm. Task fulfillment is key, people don’t want to search, they want to accomplish tasks”
Ibio Approach and Solution: We agree, search as a paradigm is currently bloated (like financial services and auto industries); see earlier post. Ibio example of accomplishing tasks- People don’t want to tag, organize pictures, text, audio, and video. People want to preserve and share memories in an indexable, narrative way. Ibio’s memory agent automatically organizes and tells people’s story using their personal lexicon. Ibio Memory books automatically publish in PDF and deliver to people. View memories and create stories on the fly by using the words in your Lexicon to instantly create books of all moments described by that word.
3. Wish fulfillment
Howard Bloom (futurist,author of The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century )– genie in bottle, do everything I want it to, long term goals, wish fulfillment mechanism, accomplish almost anything (user agent). Outboard memory – remember names. “read my mind” extension of my own intelligence.
Ibio Approach: A user agent, suggesting helpful actions based on the time, context, historical knowledge of real life, and relationships to people close to you.
The “future of the web” focuses on solving a wider range of daily, real world problems that won’t necessarily be thought of as “the web”. Ibiograph offers technology, innovation, and services that deliver value to people by saving them time and acting as an agent to accomplish tasks on their behalf. The services available today through the Ibio agent are memory archiving, automatic PDF memory book publishing, with translation services and enhanced search using your personal lexicon currently being tested.
1. Better understanding of language and meaning
Peter Norvig – Google “ better understanding of language and meaning, what people mean, better statistics, algorithms. Better communities ”
Ibiograph Approach and Solution: We agree with the problem but attack the solution from a different perspective. Ibio starts at the individual level with an understanding of personal meaning of language in context and over time.
2. People don’t want to search they want to accomplish tasks.
Prabhakar Raghavan-Yahoo “Divining intent, people want to run their lives., Retrieval engine is limiting paradigm. Task fulfillment is key, people don’t want to search, they want to accomplish tasks”
Ibio Approach and Solution: We agree, search as a paradigm is currently bloated (like financial services and auto industries); see earlier post. Ibio example of accomplishing tasks- People don’t want to tag, organize pictures, text, audio, and video. People want to preserve and share memories in an indexable, narrative way. Ibio’s memory agent automatically organizes and tells people’s story using their personal lexicon. Ibio Memory books automatically publish in PDF and deliver to people. View memories and create stories on the fly by using the words in your Lexicon to instantly create books of all moments described by that word.
3. Wish fulfillment
Howard Bloom (futurist,author of The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century )– genie in bottle, do everything I want it to, long term goals, wish fulfillment mechanism, accomplish almost anything (user agent). Outboard memory – remember names. “read my mind” extension of my own intelligence.
Ibio Approach: A user agent, suggesting helpful actions based on the time, context, historical knowledge of real life, and relationships to people close to you.
The “future of the web” focuses on solving a wider range of daily, real world problems that won’t necessarily be thought of as “the web”. Ibiograph offers technology, innovation, and services that deliver value to people by saving them time and acting as an agent to accomplish tasks on their behalf. The services available today through the Ibio agent are memory archiving, automatic PDF memory book publishing, with translation services and enhanced search using your personal lexicon currently being tested.
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