Google Maps on mobil

I just tried Google Maps on my mobil. Not bad simyo has in Germnay low prices for data transfer so i bought just for fun a card.

And I am pretty sure in several years we have UMTS (or the next generation) flat and in the car we use an online navigation system. Just the position is received in the car all other information map data, traffic jam, speed cameras and so on is provided by the net. Maybe the other way around too. Are many cars on a street and they stay you get a traffic analyze online in real time.
At the end Goggle even knows where you was at which time and with which car :) (just with whom is missing)

See the next nice feature, you have you drivers log book online directly integrated in Google maps. And your wife can see when the estimated time is for dinner. You will know which fuel station is the cheapest on route and the system can lead you to the best steaks in town.

Google Features Part One

Here my wish list of Google (Mail) features, which just reported :) ....

- Create the address book as a separate application.

- Add support for Birthdays in the Address Book and show them in the Calendar

- Change group function to Labels in address book (or add Labels to, the restriction Group Name and Label Name is duplicate blocks) or add a View

- improve import/export functions support standard format for address book.

- sync address book for LDAP/Mobile/PDA/Outlook/Notes... and so on

- integrate orkut with address book / XING Web serivces( www.xing.com)

- add picasa to Domain Serices

- Support off line functions

- add flash video chat

XING creating a webservice...

You can get more information on there page: https://develop.xing.com/

Maybe the first step to a centralized address book?
At the moment a manage my contact's in Google Mail ( www.zehrer.net) is my private domain powered with all the Google services. But I have to update manual my contacts on Google.
Manage them on my Palm and sync my mobiles more or less automatically.
I just hate the situation.

Is it not possible to have a central system where I can hold all the information and all my gadgets :) are in sync. Mmm not simple. Each device has it's own philosophy and data model.

Lets start to collect some requirements ...

• One main "System"
• Source of all other Systems (e.g. Mail Client, Mobil, PDA, Other Portals).
• If they are available let the people update data
  
• Solve the sync/replication problems ( not again a deleted contact)
• Store the history
• interface to calendar ( I hate to forget birthdays ... see below)
• support tags/labels
• ...
  

Btw. Birthdays is it so complicated to have a field birthday in your contact and show them in a calendar? My Palm work fine with this. In Google ... no .. why? .. My Mobil .. no the field exists but not information in the calendar, please solve this in next versions of the software.

Will they even integrate an SSO service? (see here)

Blog on my Homepage

cool ....

a little setup there and adding a CNAME on DNS and you have a blog directly on your homepage :)

See the address is now http://blog.stephan-zehrer.de


Well I know for a engineer with some internet knowledge this is nothing special but there are so many people out there which have no clue about all this stuff behind :)

well now this blog is on my domain :)

How do you manage your passwords?

or when will come a standard to manage identities?

I have this simple application on my palm to manage accounts ( http://gnukeyring.sf.net ) it is nice and it works. Then i have some of my passwords under the management of Firefox. For my personal homepage is it possible to access to restricted areas only be a certificate (ooppps ... expired). My server accept only ssh certificates. For Email I have some S/MIME certificate of www.trustcenter.de.
And i am sure i have forgotten something.

Mmmm oh yes once i tried CardSpace from Microsoft and I have to "cool" toke from PayPal :)

So where is the open and free Singel Sign On (SSO) solution? Or will we ever reach such a level?
Google has it's own system, MS has one. Yahoo another one. There a several open source solutions out there. Well to may cooks ....

My dream is, I have a card with a certificate and all my important information were I can log in, at all my accounts form my bank up to this blog and even for login on all my computers or other systems. No collection and manage of password and account ID's (how often was stevez already used by somebody else).

Well at least in Germany to upcoming password will support parts of this scenario, but i expert it will take several years (or longer?) as long we have word wide standard. I am pretty sure a technical solution already, but politics is the problem (not only for countries, I mean company politics).

Start Up

Why?
Well I just thought i need to right down some of my ideas. So maybe sometime they will become reality. :)

I just tried out the internet login of one of my investment banks ( trying to finish my tax return).
And again this bank publish again the same service as several other. You can update your address.
Nice know next time I will move, I don't have to write several letters, I can go to all the websites and update my data there :)

Well ... seems for me not much better. Where is the Service where I can enter all my personal data and other sites can receive updates or get a notification. Where I can manage who sees which information and where I can see all my relationships.

Which is the organization of defining a standard for such a service and the process?

Well ... we will see