Tag Clouds That Manage Data in the Cloud
If you can dream up a way to use tags to organize sets of resources, and then apply that method consistently, any service that supports free tagging -- and also supports queries for tags or...
View ArticleWhose Cloud Stores Your Health Data?
With health data moving to the cloud, we can rethink who controls data and how it will be used. To make this future real you'll need to understand the principle of loosely coupled services, envision...
View ArticleMake Me a Pallet in the Cloud
It'll be a while yet before ecosystems of cooperating personal clouds really get going, but I don't mind waiting a bit longer. There's plenty of guitar-practicing with Soundslice to do in the meantime....
View Article‘We Bought the Wrong Kind of Software?’
When you're evaluating a cloud-based application or service, ask whether its developer has prepared it to work with other applications and services in the cloud. If you don't, you may someday realize...
View ArticleTackling Privacy by Technical or Legal Means? How About Both
As with most things, privacy isn't an either/or choice. We need strong privacy that doesn't depend on laws. We also need the right laws. We can have both, and I hope we will, writes Jon Udell. The post...
View ArticleThe Internet of My Things
While purging clutter last night we discovered that we own four heating pads. That’s an extreme case, but you may be familiar with the syndrome. You need something, you buy it, you use it, you put it...
View ArticleRebooting Web Comments: Wire Them to Personal Clouds
We need hubs that syndicate to and from personal clouds. It will do wonders not only for academic discourse, but also for the entire web, writes Jon Udell. The post Rebooting Web Comments: Wire Them to...
View ArticleLocal Storage Isn’t Really Local Any More
Distributed caching is woven deeply into the architecture of the Web. And local storage isn't really local any more. Implicitly or explicitly it's just one of the ways we cache our personal clouds,...
View Article‘Quantified Self’ Movement Now Lets You Track Your Money Too
Frenchmen Benjamin Andre and Frank Rousseau are offering yet another way to reclaim your most personal of online data. The post ‘Quantified Self’ Movement Now Lets You Track Your Money Too appeared...
View ArticleWill Breaches and Privacy Concerns Lead to the Rise of the Personal Cloud?
Cloud technology has introduced a new level of convenience to our lives, making our files available from whatever device is most handy at the moment. In a world where only a few years ago people...
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