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A Service Similar to Live Mesh. Introducing Yambi from Proto.in
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We recently blogged about Live Mesh which is Microsoft’s Web Platform that allows multiple computers to be in sync. These ‘computers’ include applications and portable devices as well.
We were at Proto.in early this year and we stumbled upon Leaonard Badi, one of the creators of Yambi – a service similar to Live Mesh. Thought I’d share the intricacies with you.
He called the network a ‘Personal Virtual Network’.
As Badi says “You will agree that the best place to host your data remains your local hard drive. However, as you are not desk-bound at all times, the need exists to access these data remotely or to push it automatically to your mobile device. This has proved throughout the years almost an impossible mission, unless you can afford costly servers like Exchange, Domino etc. But because these servers don’t work on broadband, - despite the fact that broadband has become the preferred internet connection worldwide, - you have to acquire expensive dedicated networks as well.
It is a fact that the majority of Internet users cannot afford this solution. In order to remotely access the data, they are forced to host them on the web only (no off line) often with companies they can’t completely trust. But believe me, not all data are meant to be hosted by a third party.”
The Yambi platform gives you control with respect to where you wish to store your data for hosting. According to Mr. Badi, this could also be on a memory stick.
Another point to nite is that Mundial Communications’ (the parent company behind Yambi) patent pending technology keeps related servers visible to each other at all times and establishes a peer to peer secure communication channel between servers and their clients; making it possible for an all-time and anywhere multi-point Access/Delivery of your data (Desktop, Web, Mobile Devices). This seems very similar to Live Mesh. It in fact is. The only thing that Yambi goes not seem to have is a ‘NewsFeed’ where one can view what friends are doing in their Private Virtual Networks. By allowing that, sharing on the Internet becomes more social and it also sets up a platform for integrating data across networks.
While we were at Proto, the WATBlog team was discussing the possibility of ‘Social Surfing’ – a scenario when friends can get to through the sites you are currently surfing in real time. If such a platform can somehow be integrated with a web browser which gives feed updates in real time with respect to the website a user is on and the actions he undertakes, it would be a step forward in social networking. Privacy concerns aside, this would be great because we have already seen how Twitter and similar microblogging networks such as Twitter and Pownce have created 24 x 7 Global Chatrooms. Here the user doesn’t need to feed content for microblogging. Content becomes self-generating and conversations can revolve around that.
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