Comments on: The Web as operating system http://infreemation.net/the-web-as-operating-system/ Information Superconductivity Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:01:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Alistair http://infreemation.net/the-web-as-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-6502 Alistair Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:27:24 +0000 http://infreemation.net/the-web-as-operating-system/#comment-6502 Agree -- some standards like OpenID promise to create consistent services (in this case authentication) across these "operating systems" but most of the systems remain proprietary. Still, a demonstration of Popfly, recently out of closed beta, by Microsoft, showed it's pretty easy to build applications by stitching together metadata (images, names, and so on) from other sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Google Image Search. Agree — some standards like OpenID promise to create consistent services (in this case authentication) across these “operating systems” but most of the systems remain proprietary.

Still, a demonstration of Popfly, recently out of closed beta, by Microsoft, showed it’s pretty easy to build applications by stitching together metadata (images, names, and so on) from other sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Google Image Search.

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