Mutual Story
[This is a repost of Nov. 11th ,2004 piece from a blog which is going away]
After reading Russell Beattie’s comments on Communicontent I wanted to add my piece. With widespread use of mobile devices capable of voice/video/networking I think one extension of the communicontent theme will be the recording of shared experience by multiple people and the automatic organization of those experiences in a persistant store. I’ll call it Mutual Story.
Let’s say you are at a sporting event with 100 other folks. Each of you “records” the event in one of many interesting ways 1) text 2) moblog/pictures 3) video 4) speech and 5) combinations of 1-4. In real time your version of the event’s story is published along with the others. Time stamps, geolocation, and other meta information is used to sort and organize the story. After the game you might call your friend on the phone and tell her about it. At the same time or afterwards she can click to the mutual story for extra flavor.
