Parakey

IEEE Spectrum has a story about Blake Ross (created Firefox together with Joe Hewitt and a lot of others) where his and Joe Hewitt new thing called Parakey is presented. The motivation for Parakey can be found in the IEEE Spectrum article:

The problem, according to Ross, is there’s no simple, cohesive tool to help people store and share their creations online.

The article also includes a description of Parakey:

Ross’s answer is named Parakey. As he describes it, from a user’s point of view, Parakey is “a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.” Translation: it makes it really easy to store your stuff and share it with the world. Most or all of Parakey will be open source, under a license similar to Firefox’s. There are differences between the two projects, however. Although Ross plans to incorporate the talents and passions of the free-software community, he’s building Parakey around a for-profit business model. And he’s leading the charge with a simple battle cry: “One interface, not two!”

See also WebOS for Mom and Pop. [via, via]

November 21 2006 (aa)