Derrick
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The internet is offering up a whole new collection of online software appropriate for whichever tasks you can imagine. The traditional download and use model is reaching its zenith in my view as websites are hosting and enhancing functionality to tasks we never even imagined. Some software just belong online.
The truth is, our imaginations are only now waking up. Mankind doesn’t even know half the things we can get up to using the new era of tools being developed online. When Facebook first came out we thought, Myspace got competition. Little did we know that Facebook and others would become the interactive hubs that would enable the spawning of hundreds of new projects including the enhancement of older ones.
You can hardly find a website these days that doesn’t allow you to share some or all elements of it with sites like Facebook. The idea is to utilize such websites to get the information across to those you know. The brilliance is that you want people to know! You want your friends to share in the new arrival of a child. You want them to see you having fun at the rugby game between your favorite team and their arch rivals. You want people to know what you are up to. You want them to care.
Caring. Maybe that is what the whole psychology behind these “interactions” boil down to. People want to be cared about. We want to matter. When we don’t get a reaction we feel hurt.
I was looking for a collaboration solution online yesterday to find a product that would enable myself and a friend of mine to work together on a screenplay idea. I started by looking at a wiki solution that I could install on my hosted web space which we could edit while talking to each other on Skype.
I sent out my digital feelers around the globe and within a couple of minutes I bumped into a site in Beta phase called Plot Bot. It is simply the perfect tool for collaborative screen writing. I have worked with different downloadable software packages including Final Draft and friends, but working online makes so much sense when the interface is done right. The fun element to all this is that should you need more writers on a project, you can have folks join in. You can write for fun, write for charity or help out others in need of some inspiration. The functionality of the site at www.plotbot.com encapsulates the wondrous elements of opening up while still offering the privilege of closing in.
The list of examples would go on for quite some time, but www.plotbot.com happened to strike me in the face yesterday and it got me thinking. If this is the way the world is moving, with software developers rather turning their talents online, I for one support it.
The truth is, our imaginations are only now waking up. Mankind doesn’t even know half the things we can get up to using the new era of tools being developed online. When Facebook first came out we thought, Myspace got competition. Little did we know that Facebook and others would become the interactive hubs that would enable the spawning of hundreds of new projects including the enhancement of older ones.
You can hardly find a website these days that doesn’t allow you to share some or all elements of it with sites like Facebook. The idea is to utilize such websites to get the information across to those you know. The brilliance is that you want people to know! You want your friends to share in the new arrival of a child. You want them to see you having fun at the rugby game between your favorite team and their arch rivals. You want people to know what you are up to. You want them to care.
Caring. Maybe that is what the whole psychology behind these “interactions” boil down to. People want to be cared about. We want to matter. When we don’t get a reaction we feel hurt.
I was looking for a collaboration solution online yesterday to find a product that would enable myself and a friend of mine to work together on a screenplay idea. I started by looking at a wiki solution that I could install on my hosted web space which we could edit while talking to each other on Skype.
I sent out my digital feelers around the globe and within a couple of minutes I bumped into a site in Beta phase called Plot Bot. It is simply the perfect tool for collaborative screen writing. I have worked with different downloadable software packages including Final Draft and friends, but working online makes so much sense when the interface is done right. The fun element to all this is that should you need more writers on a project, you can have folks join in. You can write for fun, write for charity or help out others in need of some inspiration. The functionality of the site at www.plotbot.com encapsulates the wondrous elements of opening up while still offering the privilege of closing in.
The list of examples would go on for quite some time, but www.plotbot.com happened to strike me in the face yesterday and it got me thinking. If this is the way the world is moving, with software developers rather turning their talents online, I for one support it.