モジラ、オンラインサービスの「Weave」を導入

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Mozilla Labsは米国時間12月21日、「Weave」と呼ばれる新しいオンラインサービスを開始した。Weaveの概念は、ブックマーク、パスワードといったすべての個人情報を「Firefox」経由で「Mozilla」アカウントに同期するというものだ。

モジラ、オンラインサービスの「Weave」を導入 - builder

これを試すためには、以下の準備が必要だった。

  • FireFox3.0b2pre or greaterをインストール(FireFox2とは別にインストールされる)

  • "Weave" User Resistrationページでアカウント作成、サイン・イン
  • 現在のところは、ユーザー領域が表示されるだけ?

Use Cases

To get started, we've developed some initial use cases that we'll be exploring with Weave.

1. Automatic backup and restore - Dan's hard drive has died. Like many folks, Dan had never gotten around to getting that backup solution he knew he needed. Dan feels miserable when he thinks of all the software he needs to install, the stuff he's lost, and all the account names and passwords he'll never remember. Then he realizes that his family photos, email and calendar are all hosted online, as well as all of the services he uses to manage his life: his banking, shopping, purchased music and more. With his replacement computer in hand, he installs Firefox, logs in to his Mozilla account and resumes his online life without skipping a beat.

2. Personalization made portable - Myk likes to visit his Mom on weekends. He doesn't have a laptop, so he uses his mom's computer when he visits. He used to be annoyed because, though he installed Firefox on his Mom's PC, he missed having easy access to his favorite sites and RSS feeds, and having to remember all his account names and passwords. He logs into his Mozilla account and his personalized experience returns. And, just as importantly, when he logs out, all of the cookies, bookmarks and other information is cleared from his Mom's PC so that she doesn't accidentally log in to his email account or anything else he was browsing.

3. Get up and go - Rhian and Chris are going to meet their friends at a hip new restaurant in San Francisco. Rhian goes to the restaurant's Web site to check out the menu and see where it's located. Great, the site includes directions. She prints them out, and they hop into Chris's car and head out. Duh! Rhian realizes she left the print-out at the printer (as usual). She fires up Firefox on her mobile phone. Because her mobile Firefox "knew" about what she had been browsing at her desktop, she only needs to type the first few letters of the restaurant name and she's back at the Web site. They easily make their way to a great dinner.

4. Collaborative bookmarking - Ken and Karen are planning a trip to Calfornia. Ken has found some flights, and is looking into rental cars and trying to put together an itinerary to see Disney Land, SeaWorld, LegoLand and the San Diego Zoo. His wife wants to make sure the various hotels are kid-friendly and pick out some good restaurants. Ken creates a new bookmarks folder for the trip and shares it with Karen. He bookmarks their flight itinerary. As he finds pages for hotels that look good, newspaper articles about local attractions and restaurant reviews, he adds them to this folder. When Karen can grab a few minutes, she can look at the pages Ken has seen and add her own. She can reorganize, annotate, and organize them on a calendar. Ken and Karen can organize a great trip, with less stress. We're going to Disney Land!

To be clear, it's not Mozilla's intent to provide robust applications for, say, travel planning. We intend to provide the infrastructure and an consistent model for how a user can open up their browser metadata to friends and third-party applications. These use cases are just examples of the types of things we would like to explore, and have others build applications on top of.[]