{"id":1328,"date":"2013-03-14T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:30:49","slug":"how-personal-clouds-are-different-subject-oriented-not-service-oriented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/how-personal-clouds-are-different-subject-oriented-not-service-oriented\/","title":{"rendered":"How Personal Clouds are Different — Subject-oriented, not service-oriented"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

The trouble with service orientation is that it leads to data fragmentation. For example, on the consumer web, I might use the Flickr service for photo sharing, the blogger service for blogging, the gmail service for e-mail and so forth. How many usernames and passwords to such services am I supposed to remember? And worse, how am I supposed to remember where I posted the picture from my friend’s wedding last year? Was it flickr or Facebook or my personal blog?<\/p>\n

Service-orientation is great for those people who build services. (Hmm, that’s kind of obvious.) It is not so great for those people who have to use them because of fragmentation: of data, of login information, of user experience.<\/p>\n

Enter personal clouds. Personal clouds are the opposite, in that they are subject-oriented, i.e. they are built around the subject they deal with. My personal cloud has everything in it that relates to me. My pool<\/a>‘s personal cloud has everything in it that relates to my pool. My community’s personal cloud has everything related to my community. This is a structure that makes sense to me, the user.<\/p>\n

Sorry, techies, but it is more important that the structure makes sense to the user than that it is easier for the techies. I’m sure one can bring service-oriented services into subject-centric personal clouds without going back to fragmentation. Because subject-orientation is so much better for the users, and that’s another reason why we need Personal Clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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