Today Palm unveiled it's new Web OS amid much fanfare at CES in Las Vegas. My friend Andrew and I watched the proceedings from afar over a coffee. He was in Seattle and I was in Los Gatos and we caught it all via a live blog feed from Joshua Topolsky on the engadget site .
IMHO Joshua did an outstanding job.
There is doubtless going to be a lot blogged and tweeted about the Pre and its OS in the next 6 months so some might wonder why I should bother commenting on it at all. However the one thing that really excites me about this new OS is its underlying paradigm... Over the past year or so we have seen a lot about mashups and how they are changing the way you can consume data. However a lot of the time, the notion of providing a mashable stream has been second fiddle to some primary application be it desktop or webtop. Palm Web OS (it appears) puts the notion of mashing data streams front and center- It is the primary raison d'être of the OS, mashing together the users data streams of interest under its web based applications and presenting them together as a unified experience. A contact card made up of a persons picture from Facebook, their email address from Gmail and their phone number from Outlook. All pulled together and delivered to you by via the phone but never static, always dynamic. It's a very powerful idea that I think will really change our expectations of how computers should relate and relay our information to us. Soon we will be asking "My phone can do this, why can't the computer on my desk?" Of course, given that the applications layer of the OS is actually web based all of this stuff is portable and there is no real reason why it should just be bound to a phone!
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