We held the Feeds, Synchronization and the Free Software Desktop talk with Tigert today. Despite the Fluendo party the night before, there was a quite good crowd in the old Museu Balaguer library.

The key ideas from the talk were:

• Applications should synchronize with their corresponding social web services
• Synchronization with Web 2.0 would solve both easy information sharing and backups
• Native apps are still more usable than web sites and provide off-line support

As a tangent we discussed also integrating “where” into the desktop:

• Adding location information into the desktop would enable lots of new services
• Location should be a centralized service in the desktop
• There should be multiple sources of position: GPS, Plazes, manually entered, …

Same ideas would also work on 770.

You can download the slides here: guadec-feeds-2006-06-27.pdf (776KB PDF)

In the other news, due to the big badge swap of last night, I’m currently carrying the identity of Chema Casanova.