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Written on Jun 18 2008

Filed under: BriForum, The Future

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by Craig Miller

This afternoon Nelly Porter gave a presentation on Microsoft Graphics Remoting: Now, Next and Beyond, and she showed Microsoft's new Live Mesh Project tech preview towards the end. Live Mesh looks really awesome and really reminds me of Apple's iDisk and Back To my Mac (scroll to the bottom). Nelly mentioned that Microsoft's beta was open to public, and hat if we mentioned that we saw the preview at Briforum, it would enable us to be on the beta list for Live Mesh. I found the Live Mesh website, but when I went to sign up for the beta, no where did I see a section where I could comment that I saw the demo at Briforum. Am I alone here? Did anyone else sign-up and get accepted into the beta? Also I mentioned something about DropBox in Brian's The Future of Client Computing session yesterday and I passed along a couple invites to some people, and I wanted to let you guys know I have a couple more left if anyone is interested, just reply back with your email.

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Guest wrote Yeah

on 06-18-2008 11:51 PM

Brian,

I was accepted in two days to live mesh.

Edgar Sanchez wrote Data Privacy

on 06-19-2008 9:17 AM

Neither dropbox nor mesh live do a good job of marketing their data privacy and security. Both websites have icons/sections for fast, anytime, anywhere, etc but they forget to talk about Security.

Craig Miller wrote Re: Data Privacy

on 06-19-2008 10:32 AM

You know you bring up a good point. I currently only use it for documents inwhich I really don't care about in regards of security. I wouldn't use it for any financial or personal info. I do however use SpiderOak (www.spideroak.com) for some online backups, and I thought something they mentioned about their service a while back was interesting. They were resieving complaints that their service was only available to select countries, and their response was this: "Due to the nature of SpiderOak's strong encryption, we're required to notify and gain the approval of the NSA before 'exporting' SpiderOak. This is a legal process that involves paperwork and waiting." (you can read more here: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/839-spideroak-online-backup-and-storage ). This really makes me wonder who is requiring the NSA approval, and if these procedures were typical for companies that store information personal information online.
What I found even more interesting is that they leave any details about this on their website also. It would be nice if more of these websites did post how they securely store and mange your data. Great point.

Bill Foster wrote Live Mesh

on 06-20-2008 11:16 AM

Just signed up however I was not able to List Briforum anywhere as suggested by Nelly Porter

Craig Miller wrote Re: Live Mesh

on 06-20-2008 12:17 PM

I got an invite yesterday afternoon, a day after I requested it so it looks their still letting people in. Although the Mac Client is not yet available, which is really what I wanted it for.

Nelly Porter wrote Briforum and Mesh

on 06-21-2008 2:34 PM

Let me know if you would wait more than 1-2 days to be accepted. Birforum offer is not "official", so you would not be able to put your Bri registration number into Mesh sign up. However, if you will wait more than 1-2 days, let me know and I will help.

Andrew Parry wrote Re: Briforum and Mesh

on 06-25-2008 8:53 AM

Nelly , I thought your presentation was excellent at BriForum. Do you have any further information on "Live Mesh" or is the website the best place to go for this? is it only BriForum attendees that can register?

Nelly Porter wrote Open for everyone

on 06-26-2008 4:36 PM

Thanks Andrew for your warm words. Mesh is accepting people right now, but all folks are on the waiting list .If the time is too long, I will take action to help Bri attendees to obtain access.

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