All Lifestreaming Needs is Air
March 26th, 2008 | by Brad King |The first time a designer discussed Adobe’s AIR with me I was convinced it would change the way we surfed the Web.
The open interface (you can develop your own front end to any website), the desktop application, the opportunity to aggregate loads of information in one place — how could it not change how we experienced content online. It’s only been a few weeks, and I’m already annoyed whenever I can’t connect to the Internet and consequently can’t access any of the work that I’ve done online throughout the past few weeks.
As I was working on my book proposal this weekend, I realized I couldn’t access any of my blog content while I was at the cabin because it’s a cabin. No Internet access. What I really need is an AIR application for WordPress that saves all of my posts (complete with links) into one file.
But I digress.
This is the speed of technology. A few weeks after a technology is released — if it’s a helpful technology — it seamlessly integrates into your world.
The good folks over at ReadWriteWeb have a piece today about FriendFeed, one of the big lifestreaming applications, opening up its API for the development community. The expectation is that people will now expand the services that FriendFeed works with (you know, like FriendFeed is a platform or something). Of course, the RRW folks are pushing for an AIR application so that they can easily track what their friends are doing — no matter where they happen to be.
