That is really where a lot of my focus has been on.
我把很多精力放在这上面
It's visualizing data, visualizing information,
这些数据和信息变得看得见，摸得着
moving around in real time.
在不断实时运转着
I took that concept and eventually
我接受了这个概念
in 2000 realized that I had
最终在2000年我意识到
this beautiful picture of the city
我虽然勾画出了这个城市的美丽图景
but it was all verticals.
但它都是垂直的线
There were no people in it.
里面没有人
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,
这时，我开始研究一个
very simple prototype based on
非常简单的原型
some inspiration from Instant Messenger
我从具有离开状态功能的即时通讯服务
with the Away status and also a service
和博客托管的服务
called LiveJournal,
中汲取了灵感
which was a very simple journal
它是一种很简单的
blogging application that allowed
博客应用程序
you to compose a blog post and
它可以让你撰写的博客文章
it would go to a friend's page.
出现朋友的页面上
I also had the first BlackBerry because
我还第一次用上了黑莓手机
I was still working in dispatch at the time.
因为那时我还在忙调度的事情
It was called the RIM 850.
叫做RIM 850
It was basically just an email pager.
它基本上只是一个邮件呼机
But what it allowed is I could be anywhere in the world
但它可以让我在世界任何地方
anywhere in the city,
或是在这个城市的任何地方
and I could share what I was doing and maybe
和别人分享我在做什么
I could also see what other people were doing.
分享我看到别人在做什么
So, I wrote some very simple software to receive an
所以我编写一些很简单的软件
email from my BlackBerry and then send it out to an
来接收我的黑莓手机发来的邮件
email list of some people I put on that list,
然后将其转发给一个邮件列表
with my friends and my family on it.
这个列表上有我的朋友和家人
I got that done in about a day.
我用一天时间才做完
Then, I went out to Golden Gate Park
接着我去了金门公园
and I went to the Bison Paddock.
去了野牛帕多克
We do have live bison in San Francisco,
我们旧金山确实有野牛
if you haven't seen it.
不过你可能没见过
They're awesome.
它们太棒了
And I typed out an email that said,
我写出了一封邮件说
"I'm at Golden Gate Park watching the bison."
我在金门公园看野牛
It went out to my service and
邮件按我的想法发了出去
was broadcast out to all these people.
让这些人都可以看到
I merely recognized two things.
然而，这只让我看清了两件事
First, no one cared what I was doing.
第一，没有人在乎我在做什么
Second, no one else had a BlackBerry.
第二，其他人都没有黑莓手机
So, I was alone in my sharing and also receiving.
所以只有我一个人在分享和接收我的信息
So, I was getting my information back.
所以我只是让我的信息又回到我这里了
Wrong time, good idea, put it on the shelf.
错误的时间，好的想法，还是搁置比较好
