Amazon supports unhosted apps

[Hugo Roy]

http://scripting.com/2013/11/01/amazonBreaksThroughOnStaticJavascriptApps
Amazon supports Static JavaScript Apps
By Dave Winer.

I wonder if Winer is aware of unhosted and sockethub.
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[Nick Jennings]

Thanks for the link, it's a lot of the same sentiment as sockethub, remotestorage and nobackend/unhosted in general, though they (obviously intentionally) miss the point that the back-end should be free and open, otherwise you're just dependant on another service provider to stay around or your app dies.

Interesting to see how they approach the subject though, I think a lot of people are coming around to this idea of "dream code"[1], which is now possible due to CORS headers.

[1] http://nobackend.org/dreamcode.html

[Justin Cormack]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Nick Jennings <ni...@silverbucket.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the link, it's a lot of the same sentiment as sockethub,
> remotestorage and nobackend/unhosted in general, though they (obviously
> intentionally) miss the point that the back-end should be free and open,
> otherwise you're just dependant on another service provider to stay around
> or your app dies.
>
> Interesting to see how they approach the subject though, I think a lot of
> people are coming around to this idea of "dream code"[1], which is now
> possible due to CORS headers.

There are open source implementations of the Amazon S3 protocol
(although not the others); whether they support CORS yet I don't know.
They aren't that lightweight and easy to install though (eg openstack)
yet.

Justin

[pir...@gmail.com]

Maybe I've missed something... are they allowing to host pure Javascript webapps as 5apps.com does, or they have just offered a Javascript API as everybody does today (or at least REST APIs where others build Javascript libraried on top of them)?

[Justin Cormack]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:33 PM, pir...@gmail.com <pir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe I've missed something... are they allowing to host pure Javascript
> webapps as 5apps.com does, or they have just offered a Javascript API as
> everybody does today (or at least REST APIs where others build Javascript
> libraried on top of them)?

Both, the new bit is that they have the API, which required CORS
support and suitable authentication support. Hosting is fairly
trivial, as they have supported static websites for some time.

Justin

[pir...@gmail.com]

Yeah, but not by free nor in an integrated way... One of the things I find more annoying of Dropbox is that they know they have a way to easily publish web pages and webapps, but they don't have a non-techie way to achieve it nor promote it... :-/

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[Hugo Roy]

+ 2013-11-01 Fri 21:22, Nick Jennings <ni...@silverbucket.net>:

> Thanks for the link, it's a lot of the same sentiment as sockethub,
> remotestorage and nobackend/unhosted in general, though they (obviously
> intentionally) miss the point that the back-end should be free and open,

Yes, however I would not say that Dave misses that point. To me
he's quite clearly aware that it should be "open." There's
probably room for communication here with him if you're
interested.

[Benny Lichtner]

Also I bet his fargo.io app could easily support remote storage.

[Neophyte Representative]

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Hugo Roy <hu...@fsfe.org> wrote:

http://scripting.com/2013/11/01/amazonBreaksThroughOnStaticJavascriptApps
Amazon supports Static JavaScript Apps
By Dave Winer.

I wonder if Winer is aware of unhosted and sockethub.

It looks like http://disqus.com/bennlich/ essentially asked that question, but received no response.

By the way, could http://disqus.com/bennlich/ be https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BennyLichtner ?

[Benny Lichtner]

Yes--that's me =P

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[Michiel B. de Jong]

i also reblogged it here: http://nobackend.org/2013/11/cross-origin-backend.html

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