Philippe Aigrain on categories of services
Danny O’Brien on self-hosting
Too much data to process right now- am going through old blog posts of interest… and there are so many of them. Argh!
Wesabe’s Marc Hedlund is speaking at the Princeton Cloud Computing seminar I’m at. Their ‘data bill of rights’:
This Data Bill of Rights is our promise to you.
You can export and/or delete your data from Wesabe whenever you want.
Your data is your data, not ours. Our job is to help you understand and act on your [...]
This Post In A Nutshell (aka, the Murray Version)
No one should be surprised that social network users can’t ‘vote with their feet,’ because most users give up a portion of their autonomy when they choose to use web services. This post will suggest that protecting autonomy is desirable and should be designed in to software, [...]
OpenID blossoming into something really, really interesting. Yummy.
(Just this summer, when I was talking with identity people about identity in open/principled services, the openID <-> social network thing was purely hypothetical. DiSo is only barely past hypothetical, but… still, very interesting.)
A former co-worker of mine writes about the Live Journal sale; in particular, she has raised concerns in the past about content censorship on LJ and the impact that has on LJ users as citizens. Worth noting (from the comments) that LJ is free software, but that that only partially protects anyone- my friend’s network [...]
‘Trapped Clouds’ by Chris Kovacs, used under a CC-BY license
A wise and wonderful friend emailed me to say that he was glad my posts last night did not say ‘web 2.0′, as in his wise opinion ‘web 2.0′ is a pile of hooey. On this we are in deep agreement; there is no deep substance [...]
The lesson of this last post is not about gmail in particular; it is that web-based software, provided as a service, isn’t going away. If anything, it will keep expanding, because the user benefits are of a sort that traditional, user-managed software will have an extremely hard time matching.
It isn’t just that web-delivered software can [...]
In class Thursday, during a discussion of privacy and security, Prof. Moglen asked me how I do email; I told him gmail. I was going to write a long post explaining why (which will probably form part of an essay in the near future) but Jesse nails a fair number of them in one sentence:
Now, [...]
I’m thinking of calling my open services work ‘principled services’ going forward to split some of the difference between open and Free, and remove some of the ambiguity around the often-overloaded terms ‘open and ‘free’. In the meantime, we’re about to get a flood of discussion of open services, courtesy of Open Social, the new [...]
I’ve been a little too swamped with school and interviews to do much openservice thinking of late, but it has not been far from my mind. Some links to prove I’m at least reading if not writing:
Matt Asay hits on the crux of the issue- GPL, in a web context, is just like BSD. Some [...]
