MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life

Dixie_dean writes "Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft's research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. 'The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He's trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage." This is a project we've been talking about for a long time.

Cutting room floor

[Justabit]

Just need to find a good editor for the film of my lifebits to play at my funeral and i"ll be happy.

It's about time!

[Angst Badger]

Finally, technology has caught up with narcissism.

We need to remember THIS!

[SeeSp0tRun]

Just what we need...
To remember what all the pr0n sites we visited when we were 15...
at age 70.

Obligatory Red Dwarf Quote

[rsteele19]

CAT: No, this isn't the one.
LISTER: What isn't?
CAT: I'm looking for this dream I had last month on the dream recorder.
  It was sensational.
LISTER: What was it about?
CAT: Me, three girls and a family-sized tub of banana yoghurt!
RIMMER: You know, cats have a very strange attitude to women if you ask
  me.
CAT: Say what, Goalpost Head?
RIMMER: It's all sex, and no sense of settling down and having a long-
  term relationship.
CAT: Hey, I want to settle down.  And as soon as I find the right small
  group of girls, the seven or eight women who are right for me, my
  wandering days are over, buddy.</pre>

Recursive?

[MyNymWasTaken]

What about recording me watching a recording of me watching a recording of me watching ...?

As long as its optional

[pembo13]

Although, seeing the borg icon makes me doubtful about how long it will be optional for

Re:Recursive?

[Anonymous Coward]

You did not finish your sentence.

We're being "Microsgoogled"!!

[s0litaire]

Google want you to store all your stuff on-line with them. Now Microsoft want to store your life off-line on your pc with them. Next thing you know your mobile provider will give you recording of all your phone calls you've ever made through them...(Well makes a change from them giving the recordings to the government!) :D

Do NOT want

[unformed]

When I'm 53 years old and I'm carrying my grandkids on my lap, I want to be able tell them stories of the old days, like "You young whippersnappers think you have it tough? Back in my day, we couldn't just go out and buy unleaded gasoline. No sir! We had to scrape the lead out with our bare hands! And you think you have it tough with your complicated computers and what not. Back when I was a kid, we didn't even have computers to write with. We communicated entirely in ones and zeros ... written in PENCIL!

Imagine what would happen if they could just look up the past and say "Ha ha, Grandma! You're lying!"

Do not take away my golden years, dammit!

A Great Measure!

[LucBorg]

This takes the "get a life!" insult to a whole new measurable level. Soon geeks across the world will be able to win an internet forum/irc argument simply based on how much "life" they have, measured in GB or TB.

But to make it a more useful measure, there should also be a way of adding "emotion" points to the total score (where users asign a level of emotion or fun to each event stored in their digitally stored lives) with a function such as {Adjusted true-life-years = life disk usage x total emotion points}. Then you can let the software do the calculation and tell you your ATLY score, perhaps as widget on your Facebook profile.

Finally we have a way of measuring who is more of a nerd than someone else, and all thanks to Microsoft. Who would have guessed?

Re:Do NOT want

[garett_spencley]

I once told my grandpa "c'mon man you old people seriously exaggerate with how bad you had it".

Then he hit me with...

"Yup 'cause having German snipers shooting at me on Omaha was just as much fun as tugging it to almost naked girls on Youtube".

Shut me right up :\

Honest baby!

[nick_davison]

"Honest baby! I'm not shooting home porn. It's a LifeBlog(tm). I film everything. No... Come back.... Come back!"

Unless you're dating someone with the IQ of Paris Hilton... Or the exhibitionist streak of Paris Hilton... I see some problems here. And if you are dating Paris Hilton, good God man, you've got problems enough.

Re:Aren't they 24 years late?

[kirbysuperstar]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Re:It's about time!

[PlatyPaul]

You're off by three years [youtube.com]....

Re:As long as its optional

[Cryacin]

Although, seeing the borg icon makes me doubtful about how long it will be optional for

I found that quite a profound statement, especially since right after reading it, I got a popup saying "Updates are ready to install"...

Re:Recursive?

[PlatyPaul]

We've already got a name for that [penny-arcade.com]....

Re:It's about time!

[Garabito]

I thought it had already happened when blogs were invented

MyLifeStore for boring people

[EmbeddedJanitor]

I predict a service selling clipart LifeBits to people who have really boring lives. It's called MyLifeStore. You upload a picture of your face and for $25 you can buy a LifeBit of you doing exciting stuff like bungy jumping while saving rain forests in the Amazon. Use it to overwrite that day when you just stayed at home and read the newspaper.

Re:Recursive?

[B4D BE4T]

Colonel Sandurz: You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

Re:MyLifeStore for boring people

[Starteck81]

I predict a service selling clipart LifeBits to people who have really boring lives. It's called MyLifeStore. You upload a picture of your face and for $25 you can buy a LifeBit of you doing exciting stuff like bungy jumping while saving rain forests in the Amazon. Use it to overwrite that day when you just stayed at home and read /. all day long.

There I fixed that for you

Re:Recursive?

[Anonymous Coward]

A loop, by its nature, continues. If that didn't make sense, start reading this sentence again.

Re:Recursive?

[Anonymous Coward]

I assure you, it ends in porn.

Re:MyLifeStore for boring people

[lottameez]

Of course, those that buy their iLifeBitz at the iLifeStore pay twice as much but will feel better about the look and feel.

Re:Cutting room floor

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea, wonder if they'll have the same problems too.

Lets see what's left after editing out all those hours of watching porn and other less productive "activities".

Re:Not really ...

[tomhudson]

My point is he's saving the stuff that ISN'T important - the mundane. The web pages he's visited, crappy pix that nobody else will ever see, etc.

Recording all the sensations in a sky jump, on the other hand, would take terabytes, but people would definitely want to experience that second-hand.

Besides, slashdotters already have the ultimate way of dividing up images, video, etc.

It's binary: Everything is either "pOrn" or "recycle bin."

Re:Aren't they 24 years late?

[Lemmy Caution]

Trust me, not only do some of us early-accounters make typos, we care almost nothing that we do.

We still remain the eminence grise. Our typos are more correct than the not-typoes of the epigones.