That didn't take long:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/google-reveals-plans-for-chrome-cloud-synchronization.ars
:-)
J
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Idan Avraham <id...@chromium.org> wrote:
> [Resending from my @chromium.com address]
>
> When we fully land the sync code (hopefully in the coming few weeks),
> developers will certainly be able to pass in an alternate sync server
> address via a command line flag and use that to develop their own sync
> server. The initial UI doesn't include an option to configure an alternate
> server. However, keep in mind that we wanted to get this in the hand of
> users first and get some feedback about our overall sync quality. We will
> iron out how to allow the configuration of a third party server a little
> later on.
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:47 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is really, really cool.I was positive you will not implement this as
>> a core feature, but expand the extensions system to support that instead
>> (which kind of makes sense).
>>
>> Will there be an option to sync to a different server?
>> Maybe others would like to create their own community cloud.
>>
>> ☆PhistucK
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 02:38, Tim Steele <t...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Caleb Eggensperger
>>> <caleb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The doc says:
>>>>
>>>> - Provide a web interface to access stored / synced bookmarks,
>>>> likely via the docs.google.com doclist.
>>>>
>>>> What about google.com/bookmarks? Shouldn't be difficult -- toolbar
>>>> syncs to there currently.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's more difficult than you'd think. Chrome's different data model,
>>> among other things, make it a lot like the "square peg in a round hole"
>>> problem. But it's something we're looking into. For the first release,
>>> we've just focused on getting sync to work between Chrome instances.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> -Idan
>
>
> >
>
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