A New York Times article about the mobile phone helping people in the kitchen demonstrates the opportunity the mobile platform provides to help people accomplish tasks. For service providers and developers we still have just begun to scratch the surface conceptually of how to maximize the value of this platform. The following quote from chef Chris Cosentino summarizes part of the uniqueness of the mobile phone as a practical tool.
“You’re never going to get a chef to sit at a desk or a computer screen all day,” he said. “But I can take this to the farmers’ market, I can take it to Italy, use it as a camera, look up the history of dishes so I can brief my servers, and make voice notes while I’m cooking,” he said.
For me, this utility underscores some of the core propositions we’ve embraced with Ibiograph:
1. Save people time and effort
2. Intersect productively the mobile phone and
the real world
3. Accomplish tasks for people
Ibiograph sees these ideas as a core mission of its service. Save me time; accomplish real tasks on my behalf. I want my memories preserved in a life narrative. I want a meaningful way to save the pictures from my mobile phone. I want to quickly find and assemble aspects of my life into a medium for reviewing, saving, and sharing. I just don’t have the time to do it all myself. If a service does these tasks for me and offers me the results I'm happy.
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