Re: Cloud Storage: A New Implementation Style?

Hi Carmen,

What's the backend powering http://m.whats-your.name/? I'm really intrigued.

-- Andrei

On 10/19/2014 11:06 AM, carmen wrote:
> sandro touches on business models a bit in
> http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/0605-sandro/Crosscloud%20W3C%20Tech%20Talk.pdf#page=34
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> sounds like (at a bare minimum), you want CDN/online-storage providers to have direct consumer-offerings rather than primarily bulk backend-service to be wrapped by another company with a domain-specific CRUD app with its "one size fits all" UI. yes, would be nice
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>  Dropbox is already consumer-facing. could convince them to make their product directly compatible with Cimba[0]/Warp[1]/etc? and more generally, CDNs/Amazon/Apple drop all these company-specific APIs and expiring mega-hash-URL token-reservation song-and-dances[2] which additionally serve as a form of lock-in as at the very least, you need an IT Team to rewrite stuff for the next company's API. 
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> obviously creating a massive consumer-hit is easier said than done. have you thought about chicken/egg approaches, where you provide both -
> your app/solution/service just happens to persist its data on servers that support web-standards through and through for the storage layer. then you orchestrate some downtime. or price your service a bit too high and an ecosystem of storage-providers sees an opportunity
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> [0] http://cimba.co/
> [1] http://linkeddata.github.io/warp/#/list/http/m.whats-your.name/address/t/timothy.holborn@gmail.com/2014/10/
> [2] http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/
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