My Vision
The Dream
My mother can build an application to track her recipes and share them with the world.
My young daughters can learn how to create and interact with data in a rich, interactive way.
My wife is able to access, transform, and report on our family data in a free-form and unconstrained manner.
I can expose my music, bookmarks, photos, documents, etc. to anyone I choose, allowing them to access and transform my data as they do their own.
The notion of what is “writing an application” and “using an application”, “design-time” and “runtime”, and “developer” and “user” are gone.
How We Get There
In order to achieve the above, we need three things:
A universal way for “real people” to securely access and publish structured and unstructured information (“Infobus”).
A simple, but powerful language for “real people” to express transformations (views, …) of this information (“Infoscript”).
A rich user experience that allows “real people” to do this information access/publishing/transformation within (“InfoShell”).
What the heck. Drop me a line. All the boys are on FaceBook. Find us!
Robbie Ott
28 Mar 09 at 21:05
I just sent you mail. I don’t do Facebook.
douglasp
28 Mar 09 at 23:39
[...] One of the things that I am most excited about is the opportunity for this protocol (and whatever evolves out of the engagement with the community) to be used as the the basis on the “InfoBus”. [...]
On OData (Open Data Protocol) at Douglas Purdy
20 Nov 09 at 18:48
[...] “web protocol for querying and updating data”. What happend to push? Shoudn’t the Infobus stream data as well? Maybe one of the 5+ streaming web server product companies wants to get in on [...]
Thoughts on OData and Protocol Buffers « Tales from a Trading Desk
7 Dec 09 at 06:56
[...] protocol like this is a prerequisite for the broader “Infobus” and “Information Liberation” vision that I often talk [...]
OData: There’s a feed for that at Douglas Purdy
28 Jan 10 at 19:51
[...] vision is to broaden the franchise of people building applications, allowing non-professional developers [...]
Episode 43: Talking OData and SQL Modeling Services with Douglas Purdy : Deep Fried Bytes Technology Podcast
2 Feb 10 at 22:35
I’m wondering how you can have those dreams and at the same time deny usage of facebook and youtube. Especially those services nowadays share a lot of data in ways users like children and wifes can create and consume it.
unonio
3 Feb 10 at 12:09
[...] With feeds like that and a “data workbench” like Excel, you can control your financial destiny like never before. It is this empowerment that I personally crave and it is this empowerment that is at the heart of my personal vision. [...]
OData: A Personal Scenario at Douglas Purdy
8 Feb 10 at 20:59