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Articulating the cost of the “feudal” big internet company model
The internet has turned into warring fiefdoms of new feudal overlords: Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc. There are advantages of this new feudal model: free products. No system administration hassles. Higher security etc. I’m trying to articulate the costs and downsides. Less “control” for the individual is not a downside in itself. What are the things…
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Intro to Personal Clouds at IIW
This week, I had the honor to give the intro presentation on Personal Clouds at the Internet Identity Workshop. Dan Blum, previously Distinguished Analyst at Gartner and now with Respect Network, joined me in the second part. We had a packed room, and the audience reception was incredibly positive. It seemed the entire IIW has…
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Further thoughts on how to secure my digital assets
Further thoughts on this problem. It appears that my different digital assets should be managed using different protection levels. Examples: I don’t want my family photos to be publicly accessible. But if a few are, or even if all of them are, that’s a much smaller problem than if the login information for all of…
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Securing My Personal Digital Assets
Some questions to ponder: If your house burned down, with all your computers inside, how much critical data would you and your family lose? What if you were hit by the bus, could your family still do everything they needed to do? Would they even know which bills to pay on-line every month? It struck…
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How Personal Clouds are Different — Subject-oriented, not service-oriented
This is obviously heresy. For years, there has been broad agreement across the entire IT industry that “services” (in the sense of software-as-a-service, APIs etc) are the fundamental building blocks to create things, and that every piece of software that isn’t already service-oriented will either die or have to be re-architected immediately to avoid irrelevance.…