This is old hat to many reading here, but still, it is an interesting take on happiness.

This is a bit technical, but the "standard" specfications for e-portfolios has been released.

Once this specification is combined with what coolmel calls algorhythmic match-making services (and remember, the matchmaking doesn't have to apply only to romance - can apply to friends, jobs, skills)), and then you combine THAT with a deep and comprehensive mode of assessing skills and GAPS in those skills, and then this is combined with open source repositories of knowledge, and then you combine this with sophisticated recommendation engines, and then combine this with Google Maps+GPS,

well,  guess what?  It's a whole new ballgame! 

Imagine your personal e-portfolio being "recommended" for and against.  Imagine querying your interests, passions and skillsets - embedded in your eportfolio - matched up with others who possess similar eportfolios - 60% match?  80% match?  Then you run your Google-GPS against that portfolio, and discover that there is this guy down the street who matches your portfolio interests to 98%?

Should you IM him - through your cell, with your "eportfolio match" being your calling card?

Imagine running that portfolio against a job opening, and coming back with a match on both sides of 75%? 

It's both exhilarating, and quite scary, depending on how this is used.  Definitely Big Brother esque, if we're not careful.

Imagine running your own portfolio against the ideal job - assessing the training you require on the spot, with recomendations FOR that training (numbers, locations, etc) coming up immediately.

It's a a brave new world, again and again,isn't it?




 

According to this article. maybe so.