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Am I the only one who thought it sounded like a good idea? It sounds like popular social web site features brought down to my local box. I'd much rather be in

Am I the only one who thought it sounded like a good idea? It sounds like popular social web site features brought down to my local box. I'd much rather be in control of my own data.

froo 17y ago
It sounds like popular social web site features brought down to my local box. The thing that is appealing about social web site features is the fact that everything occurs at central hubs. It's a gathering point, which enhances the experience for most people. I'd much rather be in control of my own data. Giving people control over their own data is a good idea in theory, but fracturing the community to do so will ensure that an idea like this would fail, especially when all it would take is for one of the big social networking sites to commit to you owning your own data. I saw Opera Unite and I really have trouble seeing the benefits of it, especially when you consider the scaling issues with bandwidth and home connections. This is why we have servers - high availability and high bandwidth. It sounds more like a marketing attempt than anything and its definitely not a new idea, especially when you see things like POW for firefox. http://groups.google.com/group/firefoxpow http://groups.google.com/group/firefoxpow
- mjuyhjui 17y ago
  >The thing that is appealing about social web site features is the fact that everything occurs at central hubs. Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres! If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online? Paying some cloud service to host your little vanity page 24x7 is like having a secretary to receive your email while you asleep.
  - anamax 17y ago
    > Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres! Yahoo certainly has multiple datacenters and probably has more datacenters than Facebook. Why do you care how many datacenters Facebook and Yahoo have?
    - mjuyhjui 17y ago
      It was a comment on the previous posters claim that certain social sites were popular because the data was stored centrally! You don't care where the data is stored as long as there is a common address for it,.
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    > If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online? Nope - but your friends do. And you've identified why Opera Unite will fail. Because you cant host your content in any worthwhile fashion w/o leaving a PC on 24/7. And if you host GB's of photo's your going to end up with huge bandwidth bills if you have 100 friends all taking a look... Opera Unite is trying to apply an "always on service" to a "real-time only" model. Hmm.

Am I the only one who thought it sounded like a good idea? It sounds like popular social web site features brought down to my local box. I'd much rather be in control of my own data.

froo 17y ago

It sounds like popular social web site features brought down to my local box. The thing that is appealing about social web site features is the fact that everything occurs at central hubs. It's a gathering point, which enhances the experience for most people. I'd much rather be in control of my own data. Giving people control over their own data is a good idea in theory, but fracturing the community to do so will ensure that an idea like this would fail, especially when all it would take is for one of the big social networking sites to commit to you owning your own data. I saw Opera Unite and I really have trouble seeing the benefits of it, especially when you consider the scaling issues with bandwidth and home connections. This is why we have servers - high availability and high bandwidth. It sounds more like a marketing attempt than anything and its definitely not a new idea, especially when you see things like POW for firefox. http://groups.google.com/group/firefoxpow http://groups.google.com/group/firefoxpow

mjuyhjui 17y ago
>The thing that is appealing about social web site features is the fact that everything occurs at central hubs. Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres! If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online? Paying some cloud service to host your little vanity page 24x7 is like having a secretary to receive your email while you asleep.
- anamax 17y ago
  > Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres! Yahoo certainly has multiple datacenters and probably has more datacenters than Facebook. Why do you care how many datacenters Facebook and Yahoo have?
  - mjuyhjui 17y ago
    It was a comment on the previous posters claim that certain social sites were popular because the data was stored centrally! You don't care where the data is stored as long as there is a common address for it,.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  > If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online? Nope - but your friends do. And you've identified why Opera Unite will fail. Because you cant host your content in any worthwhile fashion w/o leaving a PC on 24/7. And if you host GB's of photo's your going to end up with huge bandwidth bills if you have 100 friends all taking a look... Opera Unite is trying to apply an "always on service" to a "real-time only" model. Hmm.