Why Won’t the Internet Give Me What I Want?!
In an ideal world.
In an ideal world: I could combine the simple elegance of Tribe.net, the grasp of community of Craigslist and the sheer critical mass on Friendster. I’d be able to use Plaxo.com and update contacts, old and new , from those community of folks there. (In subfolders, categories,lists, etc)
And then I’d be able to invite everyone to the same events using upcoming.org and evite. For shows it would provide a link to Ticketmaster or the appropriate venue’s ticketting service with ease. And with my RSVP purchase the tickets immediately from my Paypal account.
You could Moblog or audioblog directly from the event. Maybe even chat via textmsging to folks who couldn’t be there.
You could purchase merch after the concert that you didn’t get a chance to buy there. Either directly from the artist’s website or another likely retailer.
Events would autosync to my PC’s calendar. Outlook or Palm or whatnot.
After such social outings, a public/private photoalbum. Reviews. Etc. Authority rankings/ratings on reviewers.
You could autosubscribe to certain folks’s events and see a listing of related interesting events or appropriate subject references via Search, Popular Opinion, Discussion, News, and Amazon.
Of course profiles, privacy, subscribe, unsubscribe, and block settings.
And if folks from any of the sites above that interested me had blogs, there’d be a single place I could go to catch up on them all. Xanga. Livejournal. Blogger. Blogspot. MT, Typepad.
A blogroll & rss feed on steroids.
My life would sync. I’d see what my friends are doing, what’s interesting in the world today and what to plan for in the upcoming month. Plus Microdiscussion groups that web between any of the associated feature sets.
It’d be available by web. By web enabled cel phone. And Sync to a PDA.
Fuck.
Internet. Technology. Geekdom. Hast thou failed me?
And oh yeah, in an ideal world, this would also guarantee me orgasms every night.
Now is that too much to ask? Consider me a non-nerd but a technology-social-junkie. And I do like nerds ever so much. They’re snarky and fun and fix stuff.
And yes, I’ve cut my blog vacation a bit early, but there’s too much in my head that keeps on begging to spill out.
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