Because of the obvious issues with latency, Indaba is still an off-line sort of thing. You create audio content offline in your DAW of choice and then load up tracks in the browser-ready tracking app. The upside is the thousands of artists to potentially collab with. But the downside is having to take a step back using the limited online DAW.

I think I’d rather look into Ableton’s new project share.

But I’m tempted to join Indaba just to take a look around. They’ve got a good marketing angle by getting well known artists to participate.

Honestly, I think it’s just another attempt to cash-in on the growing trend of social networking sites. But just like the California gold rush, only a few prospectors are gonna hit pay dirt.

And Peter, sad but true, at least for the corporate world. Lots of companies can’t/won’t move off of specific versions of IE, for instance, because the apps they’ve built/purchased won’t run on anything but a specific version. Same is true for major versions of Java, or even platform-specific versions of Java. This is to some extent a win for Flash, which has less issues like this.