December 23, 2007 4:39 PM
Mozilla is Going Social, Wants to Weave the Web
As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information.
And so says Mozilla's rationale behind the launching of Weave, a new Mozilla project which is aimed at deeper integration of Mozilla's Firefox browser with the desktop and the web. Specifically Weave will look at finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience through increase control over personal information and provide new opportunities for developer to build innovative online experiences.
To accomplish this integrating task, Mozilla outlined the following organizing principles:
ensure that it is easy for people to set up their own services with freely available open standards-based tools provide users with the ability to fully control and customize their online experience, including whether and how their data should be shared with their family, their friends, and third-parties respect individual privacy (e.g. client-side encryption by default with the ability to delegate access rights) leverage existing open standards and propose new ones as needed build a extensible architecture like Firefox
And explaining how Weave works in three simple steps:
1.browser metadata is pushed into the cloud (e.g. bookmarks, history, customizations, etc.)
2.This metadata is transparently reflected everywhere an individual gets online
3.we provide a basic framework for easily sharing and delegating access to this metadata to friends, family and third-parties
4.we build tools and APIs to extend this framework and to provide new user experiences
To get you started with Weave follow these steps:
1.Go to https://services.mozilla.com and create a Weave account, if you do not already have one.
2. Following the directions in the e-mail that is sent to you, to verify your account and download the initial prototype.
3. Once it is installed follow the directions on the first run page.
It would be interesting to see how Mozilla will manage to weave the web and the desktop into one cohesive interplay of services. Or is this just another one of those announcement that won't get pushed forward. That we will have to see.
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