Gosh, I hate this semi-transparent gray box at the bottom of webpages like that one. I'm using a netbook so screen estate is quite limited, and these boxes are really obnoxious. Is there a way to turn them off?
I've been working on something like this, but from a different angle at http://lifetrckr.com/
It's all functional, even though it's extremely bare at this point, but the goal is to help people distill all these things they do online into a single readable format. For the initial pass for me, it seemed easiest to take all of that 'stuff' and turn it into a calendar subscription. It's a neat and simple way to visualize all of these things that are floating around out there.
So as not to highjack this post, the biggest problem I saw with The Locker Project is that it's very unfriendly to normal users. I'm sure eventually apps will be built on top of that people can run locally to view and manage their data, but in the mean time, it's very much a toy for geeks and not much more.
I believe they are aiming to be the framework for other apps to build upon; I think that was their original statement--Singly I think would be their user friendly tool on top of the Locker they are working on.
rb01usa has the right of it. One of our (locker project) goals is definitely to enable applications like yours. Have a community that's focussed on tracking and adding all these new digital data sources. I'd love to have you email or stop by IRC (freenode #lockerproject) to hear about your project.
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So as not to highjack this post, the biggest problem I saw with The Locker Project is that it's very unfriendly to normal users. I'm sure eventually apps will be built on top of that people can run locally to view and manage their data, but in the mean time, it's very much a toy for geeks and not much more.