Digital Lifestyle Aggregation
March 29th, 2004“Imagine a next generation MyYahoo service which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided them with home publishing capabilities to create, store and distribute their own content. Imagine a social networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and in real space.)”
“Imagine a system that managed their Home LAN, devices, cell phones and videogames while providing a virtual file system to give them access to all of their content and data whether they were at home, the office or on the road. Imagine a communications and personal management system which enabled inter-personal interaction (sort of like groupware for humans) that assumed that all of these features and capabilities were built-in system constructs.
Now imagine all of these capabilities and features in one integrated environment focused in on a particular constituency, content brand or set of activities. That’s what we call a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA.)”
Like Zoiks Scoob!!! I’ll bet Jenny is foaming at the mouth right now, thinking about how perfect this would be for her Treo. Me? I would love to be able to take all of my Grateful Dead and Phish shows, pictures of my daughter, and all that good stuff wherever I go. Of course, as was mentioned at the dead tech session at CIL right before I left, we need more space, and we need it cheap. So, DLA sounds great, in theory, but is it possible? I would think bit-torrent would have a big play in this, but I’m not convinced. Jenny and Marc would probably disagree…