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by mjuyhjui 6200 days ago
>The thing that is appealing about social web site features is the fact that everything occurs at central hubs.

Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres! If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online? Paying some cloud service to host your little vanity page 24x7 is like having a secretary to receive your email while you asleep.
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ErrantX 6200 days ago
> If you have a site that's about you does the world really care if your "MyFaceSite" isn't viewable if you aren't online?

Nope - but your friends do. And you've identified why Opera Unite will fail. Because you cant host your content in any worthwhile fashion w/o leaving a PC on 24/7. And if you host GB's of photo's your going to end up with huge bandwidth bills if you have 100 friends all taking a look...

Opera Unite is trying to apply an "always on service" to a "real-time only" model. Hmm.

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anamax 6200 days ago
> Yes, that's why I use Yahoo rather than Facebook, I don't like the way that Facebook have multiple datacentres!

Yahoo certainly has multiple datacenters and probably has more datacenters than Facebook.

Why do you care how many datacenters Facebook and Yahoo have?

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mjuyhjui 6200 days ago
It was a comment on the previous posters claim that certain social sites were popular because the data was stored centrally!

You don't care where the data is stored as long as there is a common address for it,.

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