From the list overview: Cloud computing today typically means that we have to hand over our data to big companies who decide which features they give us (and sometimes force on us), and who can and do unilaterally change their terms of service on us whenever they like. What if instead, we could each have [...]
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It’s amazing how my personal photos move around effortlessly between my iPhone, the iPad and iPhoto on the MacBook, by virtue of Apple’s iCloud. They just “show up” when I want them, as if by magic (sorry, but this marketing slogan is somewhat appropriate here). So is iCloud a Personal Cloud, in the sense it [...]
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It’s just a matter of time until the cloud hype of “everything massively scalable” of the recent years gives way again to something more personal. Just like massive mainframes were eclipsed by personal computers. Some people call this the Personal Cloud (e.g. Jon Udell’s recent post) Here’s my take on it, as I posted to [...]
Personal Clouds and Life Management Platforms
Martin Kuppinger, of analyst firm Kuppinger Cole, has an interesting report out titled “Life Management Platforms: Control and Privacy for Personal Data“. In it, he brings together some major technology and social trends to predict an opportunity for individuals to manage their own data, in a privacy-protecting way, while improving interaction with major vendor organizations [...]
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