Yesterday vs tomorrow for the icon Command Line 2.0 Address Book Blinking Light Saga
 
24 August 2010
Address book



Come to think of it, phone was the first social “network” and paper address book was the friends list. What phone manufacturers failed to realize in time that everything was about social aspect - that paper address book - and not the hardware itself. If they had the right vision, we’d see Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola social networks before Facebook.

The only change that happened was the integration of address book into the phone.
But it was same static alphabet-sorted address book. It didn’t care about with whom you communicate the most. Didn’t care who are your friends. Didn’t care what they are doing now... And it still doesn’t. Only recently address books started to integrate with social networks, but it’s far from perfection.

The goal is an address book that places your uncalled friend that has a birthday today on a featured spot. That prioritizes people close to you. That lets you follow their lives. In short, an address book that initiates conversation instead of being a simple alphabetic index.
 
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