Upon2020 (archive)
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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…
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Personal Clouds mailing list
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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Personal Cloud Meeting at IIW
We had an excellent brainstorming meeting on Personal Clouds at IIW yesterday. About 20 people showed up to discuss their views on Personal Clouds: what they are and aren’t, what they need to do, will do in the future, and what they can’t and shouldn’t do. I was really surprised by how much agreement there…
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Some notes on Linux memory usage
Always felt that ps and top were largely useless to tell anything meaningful about memory usage. Here are some links to more useful tools: Stackoverflow: A way to determine a process’s “real” memory usage, i.e. private dirty RSS? Find out what is using your swap Memory usage with smaps (the script seems to have moved…
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Community Tools Must Evolve With Their Communities: Lessons from ElggCamp
Elgg is a rather interesting, open-source, highly customizable social networking application. While it’s not all that known by the general public, all sorts of organizations — from schools to non-profits and brands — use it to set up social networks for their customers, students, and stakeholders, at their own website using their own brand. I’m…