One of the ideas I've been excited about from the moment I saw it suggested is the idea of computers as drones. As cloud computing gets more recognition as the smarter way to work then the idea of computers as drones will really begin to take hold.
Drones will essentially be shells of computers with little software or hard disc space. They will connect purely to your personal online account, think Google accounts or .Mac accounts. This of course applies to mobile phones as well as desktop devices.
I read a couple of days ago about a Swedish company called Conveneer who are building a mobile platform called Mikz. This platform will essentially give your phone a unique URL and turn your mobile into a web server.
From Techcrunch:
Once your phone has a URL like http://joe.mikz.me, other Web
applications and services can ingest the data that is locked in your
phone, and also your phone can take advantage of common Web APIs. Mikz
can pull information off your phone such as your contacts, GPS
coordinates, photos, music, ringtones, and other files. It creates a
Web interface for your phone.
Drones will encourage ubiquitous connections, faster devices with less or no storage and little or no software on them. Users simply accessing what they need from their cloud space. Every computer becomes your personal computer.
The brave new world.
It's hoped Mikz will launch later this year...
You mean like Nokia Mobile Web Server?
Posted by: nedrichards | 12 March 2009 at 13:25
Do people use Nokia services?
I hadn't realised!
Posted by: charlie gower | 12 March 2009 at 14:12
Hi ,
You can easily try it andalso look what has been build top of it http://betalabs.nokia.com/betas/view/mobile-web-server
try it and you'll get feeling what it could offer now and where you could take it future
Posted by: Jorma | 13 March 2009 at 08:13