Comments on: Opera Unite: a great idea, wrong center http://benwerd.com/2009/06/opera-unite-a-great-idea-wrong-center/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: server in browser « GORGONET http://benwerd.com/2009/06/opera-unite-a-great-idea-wrong-center/comment-page-1/#comment-24837 server in browser « GORGONET Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:08:01 +0000 http://benwerd.com/2009/06/opera-unite-a-great-idea-wrong-center/#comment-24837 [...] Opera Unite: a great idea, wrong center | Ben Werdmuller Web Tools and Strategy Says: June 16th, 2009 at 4:29 am [...] released Opera Unite, a version of their web browser that also contains a built-in web server. As Harry McCracken explains over at Technologizer: While it’s impossible to judge at this early date whether it’ll “forever change the [...] [...] [...] Opera Unite: a great idea, wrong center | Ben Werdmuller Web Tools and Strategy Says: June 16th, 2009 at 4:29 am [...] released Opera Unite, a version of their web browser that also contains a built-in web server. As Harry McCracken explains over at Technologizer: While it’s impossible to judge at this early date whether it’ll “forever change the [...] [...]

]]> By: tef http://benwerd.com/2009/06/opera-unite-a-great-idea-wrong-center/comment-page-1/#comment-24831 tef Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:47:53 +0000 http://benwerd.com/2009/06/opera-unite-a-great-idea-wrong-center/#comment-24831 "keep the browser invisible" I'm not sure this is the best way to sum up your point - you seem to be arguing that technology shouldn't be tied to a particular implementation. "However, Opera Unite provides a different kind of centralization and locks us into a particular way of accessing the web. " It's not centralization, nor it is locking us into a way of accessing the web. It may be providing a significantly more polished version of a webserver and a dns service, but there is nothing to stop me providing the same things with different software. I don't see the lock in or centralization inherent, no more than opting in to use an implementation. You could just as easily bundle a server in a firefox plugin (and I'm sure people will). What I do think is interesting is that people are getting to choose their own social applications to download, fairly easily, Normally the model is that applications on a users machine are for the user only, and that social software lives on the web in a large machine somewhere. It isn't anything really new to run a webserver on your home machine, but it does seem to be a slow step towards less centralized services. “keep the browser invisible”

I’m not sure this is the best way to sum up your point – you seem to be arguing that technology shouldn’t be tied to a particular implementation.

“However, Opera Unite provides a different kind of centralization and locks us into a particular way of accessing the web. ”

It’s not centralization, nor it is locking us into a way of accessing the web.

It may be providing a significantly more polished version of a webserver and a dns service, but there is nothing to stop me providing the same things with different software.

I don’t see the lock in or centralization inherent, no more than opting in to use an implementation. You could just as easily bundle a server in a firefox plugin (and I’m sure people will).

What I do think is interesting is that people are getting to choose their own social applications to download, fairly easily,

Normally the model is that applications on a users machine are for the user only, and that social software lives on the web in a large machine somewhere. It isn’t anything really new to run a webserver on your home machine, but it does seem to be a slow step towards less centralized services.

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