Archive for November 2nd, 2006
Parakey
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Parakey is a upcoming “Web OS” by one of the original developers of Firefox (some teenage kid) that seamlessly integrates the local desktop with the remote server. It does this by using a small server running on the desktop along with the remote web application to keep everything synchronized; work offline, work online, and everything’s still up-to-date.
I just want to say I have a whole notebook of ideas about making an OS for the web, and three or four pages were dedicated to this very problem. I’m just glad someone had time to get around to implementing it!
Some of the ideas sound hokey (like the sharing “keys”) but this should be a sign of things to come, with most user data residing on servers, and thin web clients all over the place to access and manipulate it. All that’s needed past that are various levels of cache (possibly full mirroring) for when you’re not connected, which is always going to be a possibility. A web-centric, connectivity-aware computing environment. Not too far off I don’t think. Anyone want to get started? I’m game.