This is another idea that has been roaming in my head for months. One place for all your virtual life. I mean it could be a single website you reach from any PC or smart phone, an application that you download to your PC or smart phone or iPad, or it even can be a whole operating system, or all of them together!
So, what is the station?
Let's first look at it in its simplest forms, a website.
Let's say you are a frequent traveler and you stopped in Heathrow airport. After getting your boarding pass and moving to the Frequent Flyer Lounge and getting your latte, you opened your laptop, started your Internet browser and the home page is your station.
The page shall start by asking for a user name and password, just like any web-based email service. You enter the required information and there you go! you get to your station where you see your cover page including your favorite news summaries, a single box with all your new emails in an alphabetical order by your account names and any other data you like to see when you login.
At the top of the page there should be a dashboard, where you can navigate to other pages including a detailed page for all your email accounts together, a page for all your bank accounts, a page for your data vault and file backup in the clouds, whether you are using Apple MobileMe, DropBox, SugerSync or Google Docs or any other service provider.
The important and dangerous thing is that all those services should be up and running the minute you login to your station, meaning, you do not need to log in to each and every email account, credit card account, bank account, forum membership, ...etc.
Will this be possible in this Web 2.0 era or shall we wait for Web 3.0 to fully load?
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