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In Memoriam Sr. Alberta Volz
[This blog will stay English. This post is personal and an exception.] Am 29. Oktober starb Sr. Alberta Volz, die in meiner Schulzeit am St. Bonaventura-Gymnasium in Dillingen an der Donau für zwei Jahre meine Klavier- und später auch Musiklehrerin war. Die Hälfte der Welt ist on-line, aber Google findet auch überhaupt nichts über sie,…
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Personal Cloud Architecture
Updated 2012-11-01 based on discussion on the Personal Clouds mailing list. See also Phil Windley’s comments. Last week’s IIW, as usual, facilitated a lot of interesting discussions including on the subject of Personal Clouds. It was the prompt for me to sit down and draw an “architecture” for Personal Clouds, which is consistent with the…
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Between US and European Privacy, I prefer the US one
It’s common for privacy advocates to claim that European privacy rules are better than US ones. There is some truth to it, but consider this recent experience from my recent trip to Germany, the country where I grew up. I went to the sauna. (First German sauna in 18 years!) So here I’m sweating my…
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LID, OpenID and the Personal Cloud
When I started working on LID — the first proposal for a decentralized web identity system — about eight years ago, I did not just have a set of techie protocols in mind, but a technical architecture with social ramifications: people would grab a URL (say http://upon2020.com/), and set up their personal web presence at…
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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…