Opera just announced this -
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/an-introduction-to-opera-unite/
http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/
http://unite.opera.com/
Basically they expose webserver via the browser, and it seems also offer
some proxying of this into public URIs like
http://mymac.chrismills.operaunite.com/
I'm crossposting this to the XMPP Social list and the W3C SocialWeb XG
list, since the intro in http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/ has some
interesting motivation re social network and data portability, and I've
lately been wondering about design decisions where I'm setting up
personal/domestic computing APIs and feel drawn to XMPP rather than HTTP
mainly due to NAT/Firewall traversal issues: XMPP services on a laptop
can be universally addressed, unlike HTTP services. So I wanted to ask -
is there a XEP spec for proxying HTTP over XMPP? Would this be relevant
to Opera Unite scenarios such as the following?
"""Social networking is important, but who owns it — the online real
estate and all the content we share on it? How much control over our
words, photos, and identities are we giving up by using someone else’s
site for our personal information? How dependent have we become? I
imagine that many of us would lose most of our personal contacts if our
favorite Web mail services shut down without warning. Also, many of us
maintain extensive friend networks on sites like MySpace and Facebook,
and are, therefore, subject to their corporate decisions via “Terms of
Service” and click-through agreements. Furthermore, what does it mean
anyway to be connected to hundreds of our “closest” friends? What about
our real social networks, the people we want to interact with on a
regular basis (like once a week, or even every day)? Why are online
solutions to help us with our real-world social needs so few and far
between?
We are connected to a Web that has democratized much and is an amazing
source of information. However, "the wisdom of the crowd," along with
the notion that our data ought to live on other people's computers that
we don't control, has contributed to making the Internet more
impersonal, anonymous, fragmented, and more about "the aggregate" than
the individual. In fact, quite the opposite of the original promise. For
too long, we’ve been going online to connect to each other, but
sacrificing intimacy as a result."""
thanks for any thoughts,
Dan
