This is intriguing. There is clearly a slow paradigm shift happening that makes Windows/Office less relevant and UNIX-like environments more and more relevant f

This is intriguing. There is clearly a slow paradigm shift happening that makes Windows/Office less relevant and UNIX-like environments more and more relevant for end users. His terminology wasn't very convincing to me though (documents vs. streams) but that's just details. I'd rather call it socialization of desktop computers, because the stream of emails, chats, feeds etc that are becoming increasingly important to us is a result of various kinds of virtual social networks we build. So, if there's a niche for a killer socialization application, what would it look like? I'd imagine, as a random thought, a nice desktop front-end for the syslog, that shows all interesting events happening in the system: new emails, feed updates, software updates, stock market alerts, calendar/todo events etc. The user presumably uses this applet even more often than the FS shell, as objects the user is interested in are mostly opened through the syslog.