Hi everyone, I work on Weave at Mozilla Labs, it's very exciting to be able to work with you all!
A little background on Weave--the core concept behind the project is to make the browser interact more richly with online services. One aspect of this, which we have focused on at first, is simply to keep user data in a service hosted by Mozilla (or anyone; the server is open as well). Our main use-case is "get up and go"--you should be able to seamlessly transition what you were doing to another device. Today we are working to realize that use-case primarily by writing full Weave add-ons for Firefox on both the desktop as well as the new mobile edition (codenamed Fennec). Weave synchronizes your bookmarks, history, tabs, passwords, prefs, etc. so that you can open up your phone, open that tab with the article you were reading, and keep going. Certainly there is more to Weave than putting data in the cloud. Sharing, online identity, routing and messaging are some of the things we're exploring, to name a few. But those are a bit farther out. As for the encryption Weave uses, Mozilla strives to protect user privacy and user control. In the past, the encryption we use has made it difficult to create a web site that allows access to the data. But that said, we do have some tricks up our sleeves, and we wouldn't want you to feel constrained by that problem. Go ahead and assume that you will have readily available access to the data stored on the Weave cloud :-) Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45235 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
