Webspaces
Every user has their own web space. They would drop text and items on their local version to have the remote version updated automatically. Navigation and other dynamic elements would be updated automatically at the same time. In order to drastically cut downloading time, most of the visual design elements shown on the web page will have been fetched, not from the remote site, but from the local effects library within the operating system even when browsing other user's websites.
If a page contained a piece of data that was often updated, like a "What's New" list or the latest stock price, that piece of data could be dragged as a package to any of your own pages. Whenever you are online it will be updated with the latest version of the data.
Instead of sending files attached to messages, users would be encouraged to send a button linked to the remote file and the recipient could then have the option to open or ignore the remote file.
The management of your own site would be totally seamless. You would look at your site in exactly the same way you would browse anyone else's, but you would be able to directly edit and add to yours. Any document that you create locally would use basically the same web-biased technology, so at any future time you could choose to "Publish" and it would be added to your website.
From webpage to timeline
A webpage could mention an upcoming date and show it as a distinctive looking button. Dropping that button on the timeline would schedule a new event with all of the details filled in. The timeline can be told to fetch other events from the same publisher. The view of the timeline can be refined to show only those events. Some examples:
- Tide charts
- TV schedules
- Bus and train times
- Club meetings
Events could be linked back to the publisher for ordering tickets.
A streetmap enhancement could fetch addresses from the contacts database and place them on the streets in a refined database view. When plugged into the cellphone the OS would refine the view to the suburb surrounding the nearest cell site. A "Next Time I'm" database linked to contacts could generate a list of errands when in a particular area. The map could generate the most efficient route to tackling them.
A call from a contact could show their position on the map; tapping your position would produce directions from here to there. Tapping your position when in other cities or countries would switch you to different dialing prefixes, timezones, currencies, service providers, rail schedules etc.
The firmware of any compliant device that you plug your block into would tell the block where the device is located, to help in updating your location. Public kiosks would present you with calling rates when you attempt to connect to online services.