Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Mega trend: Life caching

Interesting! The website Trendwatching.com runs a bigger story about a new, emerging trend called 'life caching': collecting, storing and displaying one's entire life, for private use, or for friends, family, even the entire world to peruse. Trendwatching writes: "The life caching trend owes much to bloggers: ever since writing and publishing one's diary has become as easy as typing in a Blogger.com (editor's note: the software provider of my weblog), millions of people have taken to digitally indexing their thoughts, rants and God knows what else; all online, disclosing the virtual caches of their daily lives, exciting or boring. Next came moblogging, connecting camera phones to online diaries, allowing not only for more visuals to be added to blogs, but also for real-time, on the go postings of experiences and events. (..) This Life caching introduction is just the tip of the iceberg. Obviously, providing consumers with the software, hardware and storage space to start building, unlocking and showcasing their 'lifelogs' should be high on your priority list if your business is in any way related to the world of photography, publishing, video, music, SMS, instant messaging, search, blogging, cell phones, email, memory sticks, PDAs etc." (BTW: Caching is a expression from the computer world and defines the process of storing remote data locally designed to reduce network transfers. The cache is the ‘storeroom’ where the data is kept.)

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