It is a content management system inspired by Ward Cunningham's Wiki idea. Whereas most wiki implementations (and there are hundreds) use a textarea in a web page for editing, with a command language for formatting, Cozmos uses a full installed 'Thick' application for editing and pushes back the pages using an extended web technology called WebDAV. Like Wikis, Cozmos separates content from presentation/style. Unlike Wikis the actual language of the content is HTML which is the language of the web itself.
Davenport is a servlet which provides a WebDAV gateway to SMB shared resources. Typical usage would be to provide web-based read and write access to Windows shared drives. WebDAV clients, such as Windows' "Web Folders" can copy files to and from the share
Many of the reasons I do not find .mac useful are the same reasons I encourage others to use it. My needs are different than the average computer user. This is not an "I hate .mac" article but rather an explanation of the motivation and methods I used to