December 10, 2004
Personal Broadcast Networks Sketch.
Originally posted by yatta from unmediated, reBlogged by ts
After some thinking and conversations with people it became clear that the whole concept of PBNs is not clear. The more I dive into it the bigger and more complicated it becomes. I’ve constructed the stack diagram below to help guide me and communicate to others what I am thinking. The foundational services of PBNs are provided by caching, distributed computing, and P2P applications. Individually, these technologies are massive and powerful. When combined and focused by a common API set and services set to serve personal content creation, they become a high energy laser beam.
These APIs will be embedded in and services made available to the personal publishing tools (Blogger, TypePad, Radio UserLand, MSN Spaces, LiveJournal, WordPress, etc.). Hopefully, we can create easy to use interfaces that people can take control of to do new and interesting things. Many of the existing interfaces, particularly for caching and distributed computing, are locked away in obscurity. I’d love to unlock them to see if they can grow in the light or wilt and die.
Via the various plug-in architectures available in the personal publishing tools, plug-ins will be created to harness, process, and analyze data that comes back to the content creator via the PBN foundation services. You can see some of my ideas above. I will expand on these ideas in future posts.
(Continued at Dann Sheridan’s Weblog)
