Its a small world, Alexander!

Posted by Tom S.
Jun 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM

FWIW This is absolutely amazing. There’s a spot about 35 minutes in that has four people simultaneously editing a document in real time. I’m darned impressed.

But I am also worried that it won’t catch on. My father is 68 years old. He doesn’t know what a web browser even is. He calls it “Hotmail”. To this day he still doesn’t understand that the messages aren’t actually stored on his computer.

I’d love to live in this thing. Its going to have to be simple, easy to use and its still going to have to handle basic protocols like email. Otherwise it could be just a relatively small group of techy geeks using it.

Getting to the point for our purposes here, as far as the organizational aspects of the thing, its essentially a very advanced wiki. It will only be limited by the number of types of objects it can handle. For instance, its going to have to at least support drag and drop of web clippings from another browser window. I didn’t see it in the demonstration but I assume it can do that. Will I be able to drop in presentations? pdfs? What about the scientific graphing files that I have? That’s going to make a difference.

Tom S.