Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jul 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by zaboing
During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution, called for a common vision inside the project, an area in which the project as a whole is currently lacking. Only a few hours later Red Hat developers Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark presented their own proposal for a reinvention of the Open Source desktop: The GNOME Online Desktop. My take: As I have been saying for a long time, GNOME needs a vision (and leaders) for the future. I'm glad that people are finally stepping up.
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While mugshot is open source, Google/Picasa, Yahoo/Flickr, MySpace and Facebook are not. If you read online-desktop.org it makes it pretty clear their goal is to provide an api that uses if not requires social networks.
Also who's to say that gnome could keep up with web services anyways? It has been only a couple days and it looks like they will have competition. (There implementation actually sounds better since they aren't ignoring the fact the internet isn't always accessible)
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/facebook-aims-f.html
by the way, I am a gnome fan. Never really liked the over used K app names in KDE.