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March 09, 2005

what's after blogs...personal portals

I'm still amused by this whole blog phenomenon when blogs are just really a better implementation of GeoCities - better content creation, syndication, etc.

I've been meaning to put this post together as to what's next after blogs. I think it's pretty clear. The short term will bring aggregation like planet.mozilla.org or channel9 to blogs and make that more prevalent. There'll be more features and modules added to make the ui whiz bang. There'll be more improvements to blog readers like Firefox/Thunderbird or bloglines.

In the longer term, the blog will transform into a personal portal, essentially all the services @Yahoo or .mac now like Mail, Calendar, Notes, Addressbook, photos, wishlist etc will all be available via one's portal.

Also, it's interesting to see blogs take on the roll of identity. Rather than give someone an email address, people are giving out their web address (as it contains contact info and other stuff). Maybe this is how we solve authentication problems, everyone has a web address.

I'm sure others are thinking the same thing about personal portals, I've been thinking that this was going to happen long before blogs. It's almost kind of obvious. I do wonder who's going to get there first, Yahoo, MSFT, Google, or a Movable Type or other company.

I'd hate to think that rebron.org is just a blog. I've got some photos going, I have my contact info going, I'd like to host my own calendar information, rebron.org acts as a file server, I'd like to set up a wiki soon, this site acts like a database for my recipes and other ideas. I always like stating the obvious.

Posted by rebron at March 9, 2005 09:56 PM

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Posted by: Dossy at March 12, 2005 07:20 AM