The Evolutionary Web – Features Become Apps
In the early days of Skype I found it fascinating to see how people used the Moody feature to express fragments of information about where they where or how they were feeling.
This became an important feature that demonstrated real utility in the ambient communication of what people were doing.
Then Twitter came along and made this feature into a whole application. I have no idea if they were inspired or not, but it was in the consciousness of the web.
Coming full circle, Skype now advances the moody feature in the new Beta for Mac.
Look how ‘Twittery’ its starting to look… I wonder how long it wll be until we can start conversations around a Moody and go all the way to FriendFeed?
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That’s an interesting evolution – I actually thought something similar having a play with 37s’ new comment-anything feature. It’s not far away!