In a recent conversation, Ali Riaz, CEO of Attivio, explained a vision for Unified Information Access that provides one way to optimize the cycle in a way that seems quite compelling and widely applicable.
At this point it is not crazy to imagine that Google would start doing entity extraction and provide an API so that all sorts of applications could be enhanced to achieve Unified Information Access.
Kin Studio mimics many of the user experience paradigms of the Kin's on-device software, including access to The Spot and a live connection to your social networks that allows you to send out unified status updates from your browser.