Just a few things that I’d like to see developed (if they do not, in fact, exist already) – consider this my lazy Lazyweb request.
1. A client that parses my music file system (or, alternately, captures my listening habits a la Audioscrobbler) and links to a service like Audioscrobbler that captures that information, then correleates that feedback with a network source(s) – official or otherwise – of band news and offers me RSS feeds by band of new releases, tour news, etc.
2. A publication authoring environment that blends OneNote‘s auto-URL insertion, graphics handling and real-time save, Tomboy‘s Wiki-style linking abilities, and makes it simpler to produce non-note content (i.e. research reports or long blog entries) drawn equally from local and network derived content and links. Of particular interest would be the ability to handle content with multiple subcomponents, which none of today’s word processing tools – in my experience – are adept at. Oh, and I want the information stored in an open document format, preferably XML, to make it easy to parse and transform later. What I do not want is a wealth of functionality – as exists in Open Office or Word – that I’ll never use.
3. A better browser. Better in this case does NOT mean richer in an Avalon or Flash/Laszlo sense, but in a “support for intermittent” connectivity sense. Something along the lines of Alchemy, which Udell describes here.
There. That’s simple, right? I can expect those when…Monday? 😉
