DiSO Dashboard: Marc Canter’s challenge to us to pull it together
Love him or hate him, when Marc Canter says something you should listen. Granted sometimes he’s saying his piece with such volume you can’t help but to hear him, but I mean you need to listen to him. This is one of those times. Marshall wrote up on RWW about Marc’s new big idea a centralized social media-web 2.0 dashboard called DiSO. Marshall goes into more depth than Marc does in his own post on DiSO, but Marc’s slides do the job of explaining the DiSO concept very well so no matter.
Okay in a few words, what are we talking about here? Think of it as “Lord of the Dashboards” (one dashboard to rule them all), since we have all these dashboards already, what if we could have an interface that connects them all? What if instead of having to flip from Facebook to Flickr to FriendFeed to Twitter to Google Reader to get all the info and updates you need, you had one place to do it?
It’s a little how I imagine my Infostreaming concept to work, though DiSO is focused more on connecting the social media islands that you have already instead of helping to find and sort new information. I don’t see these as mutually exclusive though. A good infostreaming board like Netvibes could pull this info in. Coupled with the idea of pulling in the bookmarks and such from friends and connections, well there you go.
What’s needed now? Brains and coders. We’re pretty close to being able to pull a proof of concept out of the hat (at least how I see it). The one thing I would ask is that it either be a service with a great AIR app or leverage Google Gears. I want to be able to have offline access to the info. If DiSO were to become an info hub, I’m going to want to be able to jot things down whenever I want.
Got legs? Yeah. I agree with Marshall, this has got serious potential and legs.
