{"id":2052,"date":"2007-12-23T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/23\/mozilla-weave-who-owns-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T22:02:40","slug":"mozilla-weave-who-owns-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/23\/mozilla-weave-who-owns-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Weave: Who owns the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From various sources<\/a> comes the news that Mozilla is testing a prototype of a service called Weave, a kind of browser-to-cloud feature in which users can synchronize their bookmarks and other info from Firefox to a remote server somewhere — although most descriptions<\/a> don’t really make it clear where these servers are located or who operates them. Will Mozilla be using Amazon’s S3, one of several cloud-computing services the online retailer has launched<\/a> over the past year or so? That’s not clear.<\/p>\n

It seems like everyone is moving in the direction of desktop-to-cloud synchronizing, or the blurring of borders between online and offline. Google has Google Gears, which lets you synchronize your Google Reader RSS feeds, and Zoho has synchronizing features<\/a> for its online document-editing and spreadsheet tools (which Google will presumably be adding to its Google Docs services soon). Google has had a rudimentary bookmark-sync tool for awhile now, and Opera recently added<\/a> one to its browser. Where will Mozilla’s Weave<\/a> sit in this landscape of tools?<\/p>\n

More importantly, are we going to have several competing standards for this kind of syncing, or is everyone going to agree to use open-source methods<\/a> such as FOAF and OpenID and all that other semantic Web goodness? I would hope for the latter. If there’s anything worse than having to type the exact same personal info into half a dozen social networks, it’s having to replace all your bookmarks everytime you get a new machine. Synchronizing would be a huge boon — and Mozilla says it will be encrypting the data<\/a> too, which is another plus.<\/p>\n

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From various sources comes the news that Mozilla is testing a prototype of a service called Weave, a kind of browser-to-cloud feature in which users can synchronize their bookmarks and other info from Firefox to a remote server somewhere — although most descriptions don’t really make it clear where these servers are located or who … <\/p>\n

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