Recently I upgraded the software running my home page.  I spent a fair amount of time adding a feature I called “nano posting,” which was essentially a way to insert Twitter-style updates into the stream of posts.  In the intervening time I’ve discovered that I don’t much like my implementation of that feature.

Back to the drawing board I guess.  My ultimate goal with my home page is to create sort of an abstraction layer between me and The Cloud.  That is, I want my content to be located on my web host, and then mirrored into the cloud environment.  And conversely, I want all my activity in the cloud to be mirrored back to my web host.  I guess you could say I want my home page to be my primary “lifestream,” but if you’re someone that’s dead set on living your life in Twitter, you can find my stuff there, too.  It’s basically the same idea that some cloud apps are trying to do (eg. FriendFeed), except my app obviously won’t be in the cloud and I’ll have complete control over my content.

This is important because I have this crazy notion that there will come a time that not being in The Cloud will be a selling point.  I liken Cloud Apps to Wal-Mart or Home Depot.  There will always be people that want to go to their local Mom and Pop retailer.