Life is grand

In the long term vision, thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system. Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That’s what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary.

Tim Berners-Lee on, believe it or not, social networking (more specifically the graph that represents your social network.)

Stuff like that blows my mind. How we can create a link to a flight or friend or product or meme and then run web-scale processes against it. It also makes me think that web-apps as we are currently building them are poorly thought through.

We wrap the items in the catalogue which is wrapped in the store. The items shouldn’t be wrapped, they are outside of the store. They can be used by the store application but they aren’t owned or walled by it. Same with social networks and people. You aren’t my Facebook friend. You are my friend and Facebook is just one application that knows about our relationship. It doesn’t own the relationship.

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