Vision is Hard to Communicate
I just got through chatting with someone about 6d and doing so, always reminds me that it's hard to communicate your vision to someone else. This post is just a reiteration of what 6d will do.
6d will be a blog, public profile, an address book and a messaging center. What you do with all that is up to you. And the possibilities are endless. For example, having a blog allows you to share thoughts, photos, ideas, articles, videos, links, etc. publicly. That's already being done, especially with Wordpress. Doing so tells Google and any other search engine that crawls your site what you're interested in, what you want to be associated with. This is what we mean when we say "online identity". It's how the internet sees you. If you post about cooking all the time, then you probably like to cook and want to be related to cooking. If you post about cars all the time, then you probably like them and want to be associated with them. On the evil side of this, if someone else is posting nasty stuff about you and you're not putting your best foot forward, well then, you can imagine where that goes. When Google and other search engines "see" your site, that's who they think you are. A cook or a car enthusiast. Or, in the case when someone else is saying nasty things about you, a nasty person.
You might want to share your photos privately with friends and family. This is something I personally want to do. As a father, I want to share a photo of my kids with my mom so she can experience the awesomeness of my children! But the internet isn't ready for such awesomeness. Well, I have a 6d site just for my family and my mom is in my address book. So I post a photo of my son doing an Egyptian dance, click on "mom" in my address book and she gets a message with the photo when she logs into the site. She loves it!
These are just the simple features of 6d. But it's built on a powerful framework and architecture (REST, HTTP, PHP, SQLITE). There's power in simplicity. And I'm excited to see how 6d will be applied on the internet.