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CowboyRobot writes "From Queue comes a piece subtitled Why doesn't your data know more about you? From the article: 'It has been more than ten years since such information appliances as ATMs and grocery store UPC checkout counters were introduced. ... A common language for these devices has not been standardized, nor have current database solutions sufficiently captured the complexities involved in correctly expressing multifaceted data. ... As computing devices expand from the status-quo keyboard and desktop to a variety of form factors and scales, we can imagine workplaces configured to have a society of devices, each designed for a very specific task. As a whole, the collection of devices may act much like a workshop in the physical world, where the data moves among the specialized digital stations. For our society of devices to operate seamlessly, a mechanism will be required to (a) transport data between devices and (b) have it appear at each workstation, or tool, in the appropriate representation.'"
I dunno. I'm not sure I want my cell phone to know where my browser has been.
Isn't this what XML is for? Communication of any data types?
That sounds like a bad Soviet Russia joke ;^)
They know you are looking for a date
As a privacy advocate, I guess this means I'll be buying hand lotion and "reading material" in separate trips to different supermarkets!
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Nonsense, Verisign certifies that Microsoft can be trusted. :^P
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.