Comments on: Socially networked harddrives

By: Caspar Chiquet » Blog Archive » Schickes online Volume in MacOS

Caspar Chiquet » Blog Archive » Schickes online Volume in MacOS — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:02:23 +0000

[...] einem Port der es erlaubt, verschiedenste FUSE-Filesysteme mit dem Mac zu mounten, sind einige sehr interessante Ideen aufgetaucht, in welche Richtung uns dies alles tragen kÃ¶nnte. Bis es soweit ist, erlaubt uns [...]

By: Technology for the future: MacFUSE at FactoryCity

Technology for the future: MacFUSE at FactoryCity — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:45:21 +0000

[...] so interesting about this technology and then follow up with another post that extrapolates on an idea I’ve mentioned before and where I see kind of technology heading (perhaps not in its current form but in a more polished [...]

By: Narendra

Narendra — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:43:46 +0000

Testing

By: Jacob Jay

Jacob Jay — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:28:06 +0000

It's a vision that's becoming ever more desireable. However interoperability is not something that actually needs to be pervasive. For most people working in their walled gardens is just fine. Only when they move does portability become a concern. I do envisage a future where data flows between pools much more freely, nonetheless every application is still required to understand independant datatypesâ€”unless abstraction becomes more transparent. I haven't investigated beyond their site, but Move My Data have a goal of adding a synchronisation/conversion interface to disparate webservices handling personal data. Much like I'm (slowly) doing with PictureSync, albeit I'm doing so on a semi-commercial basis. (As I think I mentioned I'll release the MediaSock Client Frameworkâ€”that will expose some of the interoperability of PictureSync with servicesâ€”under a free-use licence at some point.) I'm off to check out the Revver API.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:11:07 +0000

@Harish: for Facebook/MySpace and anything else with social networking involved (i.e. connecting to other people) part of the contents of those harddrives would be access to your friends’ data… their photos, their blog posts, whatever…! The point of a socially networked harddrive is to give you local-like access in a familiar interface so that you manipulate the data you would like anything else on your desktop. And heck, if you can already browse your friends’ photos in a web browser, why can’t you do it in the Finder or Windows Explorer?

By: Harish Mallipeddi

Harish Mallipeddi — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:03:05 +0000

I can pretty easily imagine how this might be useful for something like OmniDrive, Flickr, WordPress. These are personal data focused web apps. But things like Facebook/MySpace are not so much data focused? They’re more about establishing connections and communicating.

Btw as for Flickr, one of my friends wrote this nice app for Linux called flickrfs which essentially acts as a virtual filesystem for Flickr. You can drag n drop your photos into your folder and it will automatically upload/sync them with your Flickr account. (http://manishrjain.googlepages.com/flickrfs). It is written in Python but depends on the FUSE package so I’m not sure if it can run in OS X.

By: Tim Germer

Tim Germer — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:47:54 +0000

Excellent visual for a complex idea; this would be a great interface…ok, not the Finder, but you get the idea

By: Revver releases API, bets on nichenomics at FactoryCity

Revver releases API, bets on nichenomics at FactoryCity — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:15:55 +0000

[...] Blogroll « Socially networked harddrives [...]

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:14:26 +0000

Great post. Now if only we could all these web services to play nice together, and have some sort of centralized location for files, identity, etc…