Friday, January 11, 2008

Flock vs Widsets

Just like any program we write from the bottom up, from a block to a function and functions to a program cocooning all the functions into a program, there are things like widgets and widsets. I was happy to find out that I can get several widgets of my choice groupped together in another cocoon. There are several such cocoons like that but I was glad to get a the beginning info about widget engine after I found out what WidSets does. Nice to know that it is totally free and is for mobile phones. Ofcourse one has to think about what kind of data plan they have but WidSets can, no doubt, can add so much fun to our mobile life. I think this is high time that we rediscover our phone time life into a different dimmenssion. No I a not saying that we ought to dedicate more time to our tiny digi friends like our cell phones or PDAs but I am saying how about we use the same amount of our phone talk time doing other interesting things as well for free. No purchase necessary(ofcourse you have to have data plans to use WidSets). Instead asking or finding every piece of info we need(using the cell phone only) through a phone call, we can view or get texts, images and vidos to accomplish the same task. Doing that at least will give more piece of mind. We gotta face it, how much can we cope up with while having to interact with friends through talking in real time. For example, instead of looking for the name of a cheap hair cuttery place, we could have that info delivered to us within seconds(less than 10) using one of the widgets(that we can customize for our zip code or community name) in WidSets.

A not very exact but kind of same ideal example could be Flock. Flock does for PC what WidSets does for mobile devices.

My main topic was cocooning of little things(they seem little before some other things come out and enclose them) by another thing which is new and is usually inspired after a lot of little things mushroom. For example, so many social sites are available today and it is usually the case that our friends are using them. Mathematically if we were to take a intersection of the uncommon social sites used by our friends then the set will include most of the popular ones. I think how about another cocoon which is basically a social site and encloses all of the other social sites. Just like when there are too many little programs, we can break them down into functions or procedures and then include all of them into a single and efficient program. Doing so is typically computationally inexpensive.

In other examples, we are missing out on so many other really nice search engines because google overshadows them. I am sure google itself would like people to not miss out on those specifice engines because the fols at google themselves might be liking them because they are specific for some specific things that need. Well, nothing against or pro google here but my point is, a cocoon for search engines would be a great next line of products in the web tools arena.

Some of you might already know something like that already but I don't, so please do share.