> There seems to be some excitement over the new Opera Unite. Haven't
> tried it yet myself, wondering if anybody else has played with it?
> Looks cool anyways. .
It looks pretty crappy once you realize how it works.
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/17/opera-unite
* http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/16/thoughts-on-opera-unite/
You get a super-crappy URL (which I consider a nonissue for most), and
all your content is fed through Opera's centralized Unite proxies (big
issue when the whole point of the thing is supposed to go decentralized
-- it isn't at *all* decentralized). As an added bonus, they reserve
the right to block and/all content as they see fit, and redirect pages
to other pages. They're not freeing things for the people, they're just
asking to be our new masters.
All the excitement appears to just be folks regirgitating Opera's press
releases.
I think it is much more exciting to know that Google's Wave application
has a public protocol site ( http://www.waveprotocol.org/ ) and that
their goals for it are broader than simply another Google App.
As simply another Google App it falls in to the "ultimately lame due to
proprietary nature". Things get a whole lot different if there are open
protocols, and random folks can have their own Wave servers. (Things
are best if said wave servers are open-source, but with open protocols
things can be rewritten.)
Cheers,
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