During a briefing at a PLM solution provider last week, the Oslo project at Microsoft came up: http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/11/introducing-codename-oslo-and-the-office-graph/  and it made me think back to the 2012 CIMdata Market & Industry Forum where I said what we really needed to help us ration our limited attention was to have context built into what we do at the operating system level:

We have too many screens and other things vying for our attention. Having the system watching what you are doing, and making the connections for you just made sense. Well for once Microsoft was listening. (And so, apparently, was Oleg listening to Microsoft because he was blogging about it just about during my meeting last week, apparently:  http://beyondplm.com/2014/06/18/oslo-office-graph-new-trajectories-in-discovery-and-search/) The YouTube video linked in the blog post shows some interesting approaches. Now, if they can extend this to other applications besides their own, we are in business.

Now with Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram knowing all about us on the Web: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/infographics/api/, and Microsoft knowing all in the extended enterprise, we’re covered. Now Amazon’s drones can be hovering over our current location with things with have not yet thought to need, the ultimate in pre-positioning. Follow Stan on Twitter at @smprezbo.