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That is really where a lot of my focus has been on.
我把很多精力放在這上面
It's visualizing data, visualizing information,
這些數(shù)據(jù)和信息變得看得見，摸得著
moving around in real time.
在不斷實(shí)時運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)著
I took that concept and eventually
我接受了這個概念
in 2000 realized that I had
最終在2000年我意識到
this beautiful picture of the city
我雖然勾畫出了這個城市的美麗圖景
but it was all verticals.
但它都是垂直的線
There were no people in it.
里面沒有人
Where are all the people in the city?
城市里的人都到哪去了?
That's when I started working on a very,
這時，我開始研究一個
very simple prototype based on
非常簡單的原型
some inspiration from Instant Messenger
我從具有離開狀態(tài)功能的即時通訊服務(wù)
with the Away status and also a service
和博客托管的服務(wù)
called LiveJournal,
中汲取了靈感
which was a very simple journal
它是一種很簡單的
blogging application that allowed
博客應(yīng)用程序
you to compose a blog post and
它可以讓你撰寫的博客文章
it would go to a friend's page.
出現(xiàn)朋友的頁面上
I also had the first BlackBerry because
我還第一次用上了黑莓手機(jī)
I was still working in dispatch at the time.
因?yàn)槟菚r我還在忙調(diào)度的事情
It was called the RIM 850.
叫做RIM 850
It was basically just an email pager.
它基本上只是一個郵件呼機(jī)
But what it allowed is I could be anywhere in the world
但它可以讓我在世界任何地方
anywhere in the city,
或是在這個城市的任何地方
and I could share what I was doing and maybe
和別人分享我在做什么
I could also see what other people were doing.
分享我看到別人在做什么
So, I wrote some very simple software to receive an
所以我編寫一些很簡單的軟件
email from my BlackBerry and then send it out to an
來接收我的黑莓手機(jī)發(fā)來的郵件
email list of some people I put on that list,
然后將其轉(zhuǎn)發(fā)給一個郵件列表
with my friends and my family on it.
這個列表上有我的朋友和家人
I got that done in about a day.
我用一天時間才做完
Then, I went out to Golden Gate Park
接著我去了金門公園
and I went to the Bison Paddock.
去了野牛帕多克
We do have live bison in San Francisco,
我們舊金山確實(shí)有野牛
if you haven't seen it.
不過你可能沒見過
They're awesome.
它們太棒了
And I typed out an email that said,
我寫出了一封郵件說
"I'm at Golden Gate Park watching the bison."
我在金門公園看野牛
It went out to my service and
郵件按我的想法發(fā)了出去
was broadcast out to all these people.
讓這些人都可以看到
I merely recognized two things.
然而，這只讓我看清了兩件事
First, no one cared what I was doing.
第一，沒有人在乎我在做什么
Second, no one else had a BlackBerry.
第二，其他人都沒有黑莓手機(jī)
So, I was alone in my sharing and also receiving.
所以只有我一個人在分享和接收我的信息
So, I was getting my information back.
所以我只是讓我的信息又回到我這里了
Wrong time, good idea, put it on the shelf.
錯誤的時間，好的想法，還是擱置比較好
