Mittwoch, 28. März 2007

The Project

This blog is about a missing piece in the web 2.0 universe and a project to fix that.

I am Toni Menzel, a 24-year-old software developer living, working and studying in hannover, germany.

Looking at recent web 2.0 solutions fixing nearly any personal attitude and circumstance: flickr.com to share photos, google to search for any web piece, youtube.com to share videos, del.icio.us to share links and so on.

So you can share everything digital, you can express anything using blogs and wikis.. but in my opinion there is one missing piece: TIME!

Its something pretty usual, its there even before human beings entered the world. At least until now its not possible to travel backwards in time so its a pretty continous and in my opinion linear.

Basically i am thinking of the single calendar on the web, free as google (from the user perspective). Anyone can enter a single event just like in any ordinary personal calendar.
The clue will be that i want to mix up this data (which are basically either a point-in-time or a time-span with locked start and end) with any possible web resource like locations (Google Maps), Ticket Sellers (for music events e.g.), ebay deadlines and even personal things like birthday, weddings and appointments.
Basically, any stored event is open to anyone, even personal things but those are 1st readonly and 2nd without relation to the owner. So just the owner itself (and maybe its buddies) get those privacy sensitive information.
But this is pretty much going into detail, I just want to explain the initial ideas.

This effort is pretty still in its "baby stage" must should grow fast because it's the missing piece in this overcrowded worldwideweb..
So.. to be honest:

i am still looking for more evangelists, developers and supporters (need server!!!)

I will write on this blog as things happen!
Stay tuned & enjoy!

ps.: you can send me email at: tonimenzel (at) gmx.de