All I Want (for Christmas 2009)

American Airline A300, With WiFi Please

In what will now become a great tradition, well okay this is only the second year, I hereby list my top three (not too much to ask right?) digital ideals that I would like realised and wrapped in a pretty bow fro Christmas 2009:

1. OpenScrobble: I appear to have a bewilderingly large number of media sources in my life. Last.fm for work, an iPhone when I’m on the move and Boxee/FrontRow/iTunes at home, I’m also soon to be investing in an AppleTV for my telly-box. I love the way boxee has a social element and I love the way my iPhone scrobbles back to last.fm but I want it for all my media players. Thusly I propose ‘OpenScrobble’ an open standard for sending, storing and receiving media player information inc. plays, rating etc.
2. Decentralised Social Networks: This one is a rollover from 2008 and I’ll continue to blab about the user id/password anti-pattern and the annoyances behind walled-garden approaches (without sounding too much like @psd. This is particularly interesting when combined with Christmas want no. one.
3. Wireless skies: I know American Airlines are already trialing this with mobile phones but I beleive there is no reason why a fat 3G pipe cannot be carried from the plane along an ethernet to each seat on the craft. I think I speak for all digiphiles when I say the most irritating thing about a long haul flight is that you must consider your entertainment options long before you board. Come to think about it I’d be happy if all airports themselves had WiFi too a la Bratislava, Slovakia.

And that’s it… lets wait and see what Santa’s Elves can do!