I am a regular and frequent seasoned user of tons of services from yahoo, MSN, google, wordpress, linkedin, facebook, flickr and many more persoanlized work palce services yet others which are not very common especially related to academics and research. I have to signup for an endless plethora of websites…have to login twenties of time per day for different services and jump between sites. This makes me wonder:
Does not that bring up need for a global web profiling service where websites can interact with the server to collect and verify information in a particualr format…Yes, there will be authenticiation, verification and security issues but that is for the techies and system arhitects to take care of…
Second, can there be a unique unified web service/portal putting all of these services together as a personailzed website fro me where i can just click and move between my requirements….Doesn’t that sound effcient? (Don’t suggest… I already run my personal web page containing all the quick links for first clicks )
I am not a user of tons of devices so am not going to talk about Ubiquitous or “Anytime, Any Device, Any service, Anywhere” but what i mentioned above is something primitive to that…isn’t it?
On a separate note, I am sure the servers at many places know my habits and patterns better or more than I do by now, then what is taking them long enough to facilitate the user in persoalization (across the full web space)? Are there probelms with technology or potential cooperative business models … My guess more important is the later one where companies yet have to figure out many things….
