Memorial Day Thoughts

So, first let me send my thoughts to all those serving our country. It's been a tough couple years and let's hope our government is smart enough to make things better. It's strange because thinking about today has made me take stock in where things stand and also reflect on the 07 so far. Looking at Cardvio, we've created some great momentum and I can't wait to see what happens over the next few months. It's been amazing watching people share and contribute through Cardvio. A lot of people said that we could never make Cardvio personal enough because we can't replicate someone's handwriting. After months of watching people send cards, I have to say that's just not true. I have seen people pour their hearts out, say I love you and ask for forgiveness. I hope we can continue to make it easy for people to express themselves in a very unique way.

Also, I would like to make some predictions about 2007. First, it's definitely going to be the year of the widget, sites are now becoming extremely modular and you now take your favorite parts and put them on your site, blog, etc. I also think the web will finally start coming to the desktop and it needs to happen. This idea that we keep duplicate information on our desktop and on the web is crazy. I wish Vista would have created more tools to help people do this, but we are talking about Microsoft.

Speaking of which, if someone out there wants to create the next operating system, I think this is a great opportunity, with the failure of Vista this is a great time to innovate. Yes, there are companies like Ubuntu and others doing pretty good job of duplicating a Microsoft like operating system. But I truly think someone needs to really start over and rethink how people use their computers. The reality is that we should never save anything locally again, we should all be saving our content to the internet "cloud" and then be able to access it from anywhere. Tagging our data instead of organizing it into folders and making it private or sharing/contributing with others.

Alright, enough thoughts for today, hope all of you having a good day off.