as long as it proves to be secure, i've always admired the idea. uses to have a firefox plugin that did this as well... and some other "simple web server" apps over the years. it does still rely on opera proxy servers but that's just for negotiating connections, not for file transfers.
i'm interested in anything that brings up some user independence. i'm not against cloud services at all. i just like to see a balance. and stuff like Unite and littleshoot.org are on my radar these days. Google Wave as well... though that's going to be a more complicated install and not for normal users... but in the same vein of federated services. it's also interesting to me how many people pay for web hosting with often times enormous storage and bandwidth capacity but do not leverage it in any way except to make use of a domain name, maybe a wordpress blog and some miscel things. being that the vast majority of users will not need to be concerned with cost of surpassing limits (and usually their are safeguards now), most people could actually get away with serving their own media off their own hosted servers. how many 'natural visits' would you get on youtube or vimeo or blip anyway? if you can leverage broadcast mediums like twitter to spread a url, then that's prob good enough. as soon as i have time to re-organize my own digital chaos... i'm going to stop using 3rd party services for hosting, although i may leverage archive.org for backups and long-term storage. independence is the new free @sull On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Heath <[email protected]> wrote: > > > An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all within a > web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for video...I am curious > to see what happens.. > > http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090616/tc_nf/67188 > > Opera on Tuesday unveiled a technology that aims to disrupt the > client-server computing model of the Web. Dubbed Opera Unite, the technology > turns any computer into both a client and a server so it can interact with > and serve content to other computers directly across the Web. Unite > eliminates the need for third-party servers. > > Opera CEO John von Tetzchner said Opera is opening up the full potential of > the Web to everyone. PCs decentralized computing from large mainframes, he > said, and Opera Unite is taking the next step by decentralizing the cloud. > > "With server capability in the browser, Web developers can create Web > applications with profound ease," von Tetzchner said. "Consumers have the > flexibility to choose private and efficient ways of sharing information. We > believe Opera Unite is one of our most significant innovations yet, because > it changes forever the fundamental fabric of the Web." > > More Privacy, Open Standards > > Opera pointed to the benefits of Unite for both consumers and Web > developers. For consumers, the company said Unite's cadre of services offers > greater control of private data and makes it possible to share data with any > device equipped with a modern Web browser. > > On the Web developer side, Opera Unite simplifies the equation. Since Opera > Unite services are based on the same open Web standards as Web sites today, > creating cutting-edge Web services is less complex. Opera said Unite makes > creating a full Web service as easy as coding a Web page. > > "What interests me about Opera Unite is how current technology and the > social world are now interconnected," said Molly Holzschlag, an Opera Web > evangelist. "Using open standards, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript, > developers and even enthusiasts with a little standards savvy can make their > own Opera Unite service. Opera Unite allows people the ability to be > imaginative with their skills and create a wide range of technical and > social applications using the same open standards used today." > > Building Your Own Cloud > > Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop > browser from Opera Labs. Opera Unite services include File Sharing, Web > Server, Media Player, Photo Sharing, The Lounge, and Fridge. Most of those > services are familiar to Web surfers, while The Lounge and Fridge are > Opera's unique spin on Web-based communications. > > The Lounge is a self-contained chat service running on your computer. A > user's friends can access the chat room via a direct link. That means they > are not required to sign into any particular service. Depending on the > user's privacy settings, only a generated password is needed in order for > people to log in to the chat room. > > Fridge users can post a note on their friends' virtual refrigerators. When > a user shares a direct link to their refrigerator, the users and their > friends, family or colleagues can exchange notes securely and privately in > real time. > > Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, called Unite a powerful > concept that could give it a unique position in the browser wars. The > challenge, he said, is evangelizing developers to build applications on top > of Unite and explaining to consumers how this enables them to build their > own cloud services rather than relying on companies like Yahoo, Google or > Microsoft. > > "Certainly there's enough practical features to get people using Unite," > Gartenberg said. "With this type of technology, anyone could host their own > Twitter service for themselves and their friends if they wanted to, for > example. There's a lot of potential, bandwidth and horsepower here that > people can tap into. Opera is definitely on to something innovative." > > Heath > http://heathparks.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
