Etelos iPhone application for Office2.0

Some quick thoughts on the very nice platform that Etelos has provided for Office 2.0:

• The profile asks for our blog RSS, but automatically puts an http:// in front of it, rendering it useless.
• If the blog RSS can be fixed, where can we watch everybody liveblogging during the conference?
• The business card replacement is absolutely marvelous. Yesterday, at the Unconference, I flinched every time I had to exchange business cards. However… where can I see a list of the people to whom I have sent my information? Edit: within a couple of hours, Etelos solved this.

Wishlist: RSS of LinkedIn “Questions from my Network”

I love LinkedIn’s Q&A feature. It consistently delivers genuinely useful answers from amazingly qualified people.

I also want to contribute with answers to questions from my network. But who has the time to manually check the “Questions from your Network” page?

Why doesn’t LinkedIn feed me questions via RSS?

Wishlist: skimmable video content

Stowe Boyd is angry that Scoble doesn’t provide a transcript for his videos. He doesn’t have 30 minutes to watch a video. Frankly, neither have I.

Increasingly, I don’t have patience for 1 hour, or even 20 minutes or 5 to watch the news. Not even when I get it conveniently delivered to Miro every day. I do want the video content. But video is so out of sync with the basic principle of Hyper-time skimming that I lose interest in 30 seconds flat.

To skim videos, I want a table of contents in a sidebar – preferably an expandable outline. If a topic fails to catch my interest, I’ll go on to the next. And I want to be able to jump straight to the 1 minute that I really want to see.

Viddler gets it. Time-marked comments and tags, who-hooo! Leaving it all to the community, however, is not enough. Video content creators need to provide at least an initial structure.