Soon Google technologies would manage you life (almost) completely.
Just recently I had short chat with someone I haven't met for ages. I was doing this through chat feature of Google Mail. Cause we had not so much time to talk, we planned to have another chat session on Friday:
Later on, I checked the chat log again. I wanted to put a reminder in my calendar (using Google Calendar), but then look what was offered to me right there:
Putting privacy issues aside, apparently my chat log is automatically analyzed (no surprise here, messages in Google Mail is scanned to determine the content-targeted ads). Because seems that I and my friend have an appointment to chat again, that's why I was given the link to add it to my calendar.
In another test, I chatted with someone and just typed "how about dinner on friday?", and yes, Google Mail interface again displays the link to add "dinner" to my calendar. Pretty neat, isn't it?
I predict that soon it's even completely normal that, if you plan a lunch with your business partner, perhaps somewhere downtown, Google technologies could place a call, make the reservation, confirm the menu, order the taxi at the right time (complete with printed optimal route for the driver), pull the right business documents, etc etc.
What a digital life.
5 comments:
I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not.
Sarcastic or not, since you are using blogger.com (owned by google), google could blog about your dinner and post photos from the dinner automatically (just carry a GPRS-enabled mobile phone with camera and Google applications installed :) ). Now that would be a neat new world (dis)order with.
Anyway, I don't understand why they keep the Konqueror as an unsupported browser when it supports almost all features of google mail/calendar/...
PS: I use KOrganizer for calendar and a cronjob that autocommits my calendar to a private remote subversion repository. So I have the calendar available wherever I am and it is not visible to Google :)
KMail had a similar thing - I've mentioned that I had something attached in the message, but had attached nothing. KMail warned me about that - "The message you have composed seems to refer to an attached file but you have not attached anything. Do you want to attach a file to your message?"
Anonymous: "sarcastic" is a stronger word, but likely I still need to be convinced a bit more.
Brcha: yes, autoblogging surely will be part of it.
w.r.t to Konqueror, there are tricks to make it work with e.g. Google Mail, just google about it.
And as for calendar (with KOrganizer or other client), of course there are hundred ways to make it available anywhere. But the point is, at the moment (hopefully not anymore in the future) you still need to explicitly create entries there.
Ivan Čukić: indeed, many power users rely on this very good feature since years (http://tinyurl.com/yvpbtj)
>> I predict that soon it's even completely normal that, if you plan a lunch with your business partner, perhaps somewhere downtown, Google technologies could place a call, make the reservation, confirm the menu, order the taxi at the right time (complete with printed optimal route for the driver), pull the right business documents, etc etc. <<
ha ha ha. very interesting life. one again, not use paper again to print route, but google set the GPS tool and automatically taxi follow the route in GPS (not use driver). :D
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