Re:New Personal, Peer-to-Peer Web Application Platform
by codemechanic on Monday March 30, 2009 @02:41PM
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Thanks a lot. your suggestions are gems. We are thinking along those lines. We need to connect with existing ecosystems to provide value to the users. Thats critical.
What do you think about having your own personal web applications running in a virtual instance?
Re:New Personal, Peer-to-Peer Web Application Platform
by cmars232 on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @03:11PM
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I think whether these web apps run on my desktop, or sync/migrate to a virtual instance, should be completely transparent to me as a user. I assume a virtual instance would be necessary to keep continuity when accessing through mobile devices.
Re:New Personal, Peer-to-Peer Web Application Platform
by codemechanic on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @03:33PM
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We do provide a dynamic dns for users. You can access your tonido instance by typing http://cmars232.tonidoid.com/. So if you are running tonido in your laptop or home server you can still access tonido apps from mobile devices.
Virtual instance can bring whole lot of other benefits like upload bandwidth and stable internet connection etc..
Some ideas I've had in the past:
* Use the cloud against itself, as a cheap unreliable cache (which is all its really good for) full of encrypted secure user data.
* Make it as easy as possible to import contacts, email, and other data from GMail, Facebook, etc. Make it easy to invite contacts from these existing applications. You might even create apps for these services that enable secure Tonido integration.
* Provide blogging, microblogging, friends & contacts, etc. A p2p facebook. Use "the cloud" to handle spikes in traffic. How do to this securely? There's gotta be way.
* Leverage something like the Dining Cryptographer's protocol to provide completely uncontrollable darknets!