WANTED: New Kind of CMS and New Kind of Start Page
I'm looking for a couple things that I'm surprised I cannot find, yet:1) New kind of CMS, turning your site/blog into your single profile/lifestream/social graph instead of maintaining those concepts across Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed or elsewhere. There are some lifestream plugins for Wordpress and some one-off integrated design efforts, but this feels like something worthy of a new CMS from the ground up -- the mix of profile and social graph requires rethinking refresh cycles, data location/sharing, and existing blog/page design concepts. Now that APIs are proliferating at a rapid rate, it's possible to create the truly distributed social network -- where we own/control the end-nodes. Any ideas who is closest to this?
2) New kind of Start Page, combining SearchMe's visual pageflows, in-pageflow navigation/scrolling and PageFlakes/GReader RSS organization. The result would be a Start Page for my top 10+ pages of daily consumption, allowing in-page navigation/reading and the aesthetics of coverflow. This may be possible with SearchMe's stacks (still trying), but I'm curious if any other start page platforms are incorporating the coverflow design concepts. Ideas?
I think #1 is a bigger idea, but both would bring me value.
UPDATE: @quangt mentioned Chris Pirillo's new WicketPixie design as coming closer to the SocialCMS I'm suggesting. I really like what Matt Brett pulled together for Chris, but the Social Me and Faves pages are a couple examples of why I think a new CMS structure is in order. There should be a way to incorporate blogging, profiles, and the social graph in a more elegant, inclusive way than just pages/tabs.
Labels: cms, facebook, friendfeed, lifestream, new kind of cms, pageflakes, searchme, social graph, start page, twitter
Posted by VC Dan | 6/30/2008
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Comments (4)
Wow you should have went with wordpress... Now I can only comment through my google account.
Post more, and use wordpress!
How far along would a skinnable friendfeed or similar offer get you?
I've had similar thoughts, given MBL. Taking ownership of FF wouldn't do it for me, but it might for others.
@austen: I'm looking at other platforms, but I don't wanna do it again for awhile. That's why I need the new SocialCMS.
@rafer: skinnable friendfeed comes closer, but I'd still want the flexibility of a CMS to control regions of the page, tagging, SEO etc. Maybe you could create objects for each FF feed unit, structured how/where you like. What I like about the FF paradigm is the inclusion of commenting across all feeds. I didn't mention it for my SocialCMS wish, but that's another key element -- commenting/liking everything.
I have actually been daydreaming about no.1 for a while now.
What are your thoughts on a desktop client (a la twhirl) for universal posting?
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