Posts tagged data

I love ubiquity. Especially across personal devices. With services like Google and the venerable Microsoft Exchange Server I can quite simply pump unified data up to the cloud and have it rain back down on me in a sea of data that holds my life together. There is however one big drawback. Does everything really need the cloud?? Ok so it is all easier if it is up in the cloud but maybe the rain from the cloud needs filtering?

As much as I love having access to files with Dropbox, E-mail (read as Gmail), Calendar info with Gcal or Exchange the ubiquity comes at a cost of often times redundant data. That redundancy is what impurifies the data and ends up making me want filtered rain water.

Of course many would say that data redundancy is user ID-10T error related. Maybe the data I am flowing up to the cloud needs to be purified before it evaporates into the ethereal plane of 1′s and 0′s. But really I think the cloud should be “intelligent” and could see the identical data. Then not only should it register multiple items and maybe merge the two as one but should do so and stream in related information that is in other parts of my cloud so as to enrich the rain with minerals. Nuggets of information that was caught from all the rest of the bit stream and placed when a pattern is realized.

Maybe what I am talking about is not really doable… maybe the stream needs to be purified before sent to the cloud… maybe I am not wanting to use my brain enough and am just being lazy…

Or maybe I could put my cousin’s birthday party on my calendar and contact, address, and shopping preference information could come up.

Maybe I am just crazy.