A View of Personal Info Management

Thomas Vander WalMarch 13, 2005 :: SXSW Interactive Festival

Personal View

Perceptions

Not What it Was

Information Shapes Us

Lost Early

Personal Language

That Syncing Feeling

Building a Personal InfoCloud

• Key Attributes

• Portability/Ubiquity

• Access

• Personally organized

• External storage and management

• Flickr, del.icio.us, WebDav, Personal Portals (my.yahoo.com), e-mail, attention.xml

• Personal storage

• PDA, laptop, iPod, desktop, keydrive

• Standards

Personal Aggregation

• Tie our stuff together with tags/metadata

• Missing tools

• For & with whom and location are important

• Sharing based on trust and controlled by the person

Contact

thomas@vanderwal.net

http://vanderwal.net/random/

http://personalinfocloud.com