It seems like I'm not the only person fed up with the internet schizophrenia which comes as a side effect of uploading images to flickr or photobucket, videos to youtube, and words to Blogger, whilst also managing social networking sites for work and pleasure...
Blake Ross, one of the main guys behind the Firefox open-source browser which has severly dented Internet Explorer's monopoly, has now revealed his new project, Parakey. There's lots of clever stuff behind it, but basically it's an interface which resides on your home computer, but creates a portal for everything you might want to upload. And it's all done in a simple, one-click fashion, rather than sending you off to log into your usual 12 or 13 different sites to manage your online persona.
Read more; http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this.
Having had a cursory look at this it could be just the thing that answers one of the problems for mobile internet - ie while a pc offers 160gb plus to store, your mobile might have a 1GB card if you're lucky.
So, in theory, as demand for mobile internet grows so will demand for online storage.
As long as Parakey also offers the channel (ie unique and usable urls) abilities of sites such as flickr and youtube it will do well.
One other point: I think the shift to mobile internet means your mobile may become your new desktop (ie primary access point to internet and, therefore, to your files).
If parakey can cope with that it could be very interesting indeed.