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by jkl5xx 1071 days ago
Time and space are constants of everyone's life. You're always somewhere at some time. I've been dreaming of a centralized time & space view layer for years. Something that ingests all this data we have at our fingertips. This article gets really close to what I've imagined. Add in a map and you're able to correlate all sorts of behavior in order to understand yourself and the human condition so much better.

P.S. I'm totally open to hacking out an MVP with someone if this post resonates strongly with you.
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yonatan8070 1071 days ago
While reading this I was thinking about how it would integrate with the OS calendar implementations, I my primary thought was to have it connect use the description field as a text document with all the additional metadata about each event. Possibly as YAML, JSON, or some custom human readable format
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jkl5xx 1070 days ago
I've had similar ideas and have tried little scripts that do this. It's a start but I think the crucial issue is the format and ui of calendar apps. It doesn't feel durable or easily searchable. And they've been seemingly stagnant for years.
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libealistand 1070 days ago
A wet dream for the ubiquitous data collecting ad industry. Obviously such a service would live in the cloud and it would be "free" and that much personal data about everybody would be too good to pass as an opportunity. Forget FB or Google harvesting whatever little data they can pick up about you indirectly. This would be the holy grail.

Call me cynic but in a sense I'm glad we don't have this kind of thing.

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jkl5xx 1067 days ago
Not even if it were self-hostable, open source with an MIT license?
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