Live Mesh is finally public - it was announced earlier today at the Web 2.0 conference. We’ve had the social graph buzzword bantered around for some time in the context of Facebook. Will mesh become the next one to go around? Check out the intro post. Live Mesh is all about software + services, and connecting and bringing devices together into your own personal "mesh" enabling them to work in a connected way.
Ray Ozzie alluded to the Web as the Hub of the social mesh and the device mesh earlier at MIX08. Over on the Live Mesh blog, Mike Zintel alludes to a bunch of concepts around the Live Mesh platform, such as mesh object, and a data synchronization platform. I am particularly excited about the prospect of seeing a new generation of Web apps that leverage the platform in all sorts of interesting ways, not just for local storage, but also synchronized local storage of application data and personal data, and offline execution, as a means to differentiate and cater to new user experiences on the Web. The APIs that emerge around this platform will be something to keep an eye on.
On another personal note, I am super excited to see and run the Web version of Live Mesh, which simulates a Vista desktop and Explorer folders right within your Web browser for anywhere access to your devices and a data. While it will be interesting to see the user reactions around this UI metaphor in the browser as shown in the screenshot, the Ajax code behind the scenes is pretty much written in Script# (I've worked with the team for a while), and now that the site is public, I’ve added it to the new showcase page on my project site.
Posted on Tuesday, 4/22/2008 @ 10:34 PM