So preference management are a must on the Internet services, and probably are spreading to other sectors far away from the Internet. We can remember how Tom Cruise on Minority Report is asked for his last buy and suggested with new products at entering a shop.

This suggestion is pretty easy if we would have the customer preferences somewhere.

Then there are tones of possible applications for Portable Personality:

• Music suggestion
• Ambient configuration on a domotic house: light, temperature…
• Customization on the car : Driver position, music…
• Suggestion on shopping.

This are a good set of possibilities for standard day by day life, but what about the entrerprise usage. Its a key for the Portable Personality technology success.

The increasing demand of mobility on service based jobs, have make to grow a big set of portable devices: Mobiles, PDA’s, laptops and netbooks…

Every consultant, carry on his own work tool (laptop). When most of times he is going to work in another place where there are computers available to external workers, but the configuration time needed to set up the production environment on the new computer takes so long, so everyone carry their laptop.

With Portable Personality technology it should be easy to handle, workers can get at any time:

• Live configuration parameters for: E-mail, Internet Connection, remote printers…
• Live customization of the desktop, OS.
• Live setup of required software and its configuration
• Bookmarks, addons… and all the navigator configuration.

Without bringing the laptop over, worker would have their own environment replicated on other machine on the fly.

Then we can state that Portable Personality is: a preference packaging technology which enables us to dispose of all of our preferences set everywhere, anywhere…

So what is not?

• Dispersed services with his own Preference Management system.
• A technology for increasing the revenue on Ad serving
• Existent USB technology for configure production environments on computers.

The Portable Personality Technology Status

Taking a look the Portable Personality site of the Tampere University of Technology we can see what is the project structure:

Portable Personality presentation

Considering the mobile as carrier device of the personal preferences package it can connects to other devices (PC’s and Music store server) to feed them with user preferences.

I let here a technology challenge for the Tampere people… Why shall I carry on my mobile to get the service?