I decided to take a look at my old del.icio.us bookmarks today to see if any could be tossed or re-purposed. I came across my second link I bookmarked (the first being JakesOnline.org) titled EPIC 2014. I actually remember the day I was introduced to this movie very clearly – December 15, 2005. It was part of a presentation at the DuPage County Learning Resource Center during the DuPage Technology Coordinators Meeting by David Jakes. It opened to me an idea of merging social media.
And while the names of the companies and products may be different (Friendster and WiFiPod), many of the same technologies still permeate. Facebook has certainly emerged as the social media giant of the day and is dealing with privacy concerns that were touted in this video to make news more personal for us. The outlook on Google may have changed compared to almost five years ago, where maybe the Supreme Court of the United States might be less sympathetic to Google should the New York Times bring a copyright lawsuit. Amazon has certainly been a model for eCommerce, but potentially new legislation to tax sales on the Internet may force a change of that model. But certainly the end of the video demonstrates social tagging of what is happening around your world, which is very much like how Twitter operates today.
Very interesting in retrospect.