Rich Sharing and Personal Channels
Personal channels support rich sharing. Consequently they are extremely flexible and can be used for many purposes. Personal channels provide a messaging system for personal clouds that provides access-controlled, filtered, trustworthy notifications, data exchange, and sharing.
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A Programming Model for Personal Clouds
Personal clouds, running a cloud OS, with location-independent, semantically correct access to personal data from around the Web, and running applications that interact with other online services for the owner's benefit promise to usher in a new Web of unprecedented power and convenience.
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Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers
Personal clouds needn't be complex to set up or manage for them to have significantly more power than the cloud appliances that companies offer people today. We envision systems that are no more complicated than a smartphone that offer the features and benefits described above.
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Sending Events in Parallel
This code release introduces an action for raising events to personal event networks in parallel. The makes event network federation through subscription practical.
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Journey Out to Our Frontier
The good news is that the architecture of the Internet is fairly robust and there's nothing about the silos that have been built that keeps some of the rest of us from striking out for the frontier and building a new town.
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Prepared to Be Boarded!
Modern language is indicative of a corporate culture that views customers as undifferentiated herd to be "managed" rather than as human beings.
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Event Channels
Event channels provide a means for people to independently manage, permission and respond to online connections.
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Place-Based Networks
A thought-provoking piece on place-based networks from Gideon Rosenblatt.
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Delivering Flowers with a Distributed Event System: Event Subscription in Action
Event subscription creates a powerful system for enabling a completely new kind of interaction between vendors and customers.
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Foursquare and Personal Data in a Personal Event Network
This demonstration shows a personal event network responding to Foursquare checkin events and storing the information about the checkin in a personal data service using a manager application that is loosely coupled and privacy respecting. Pretty cool, huh?
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A Web of Things on the Internet of Things
Giving me more apps on my phone and more things to manage doesn't appeal to me. But giving me a personal network that automates drudgery and enables things that I couldn't do before does. That's the promise of a personal event network and why I think everyone will want one.
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What Personal Event Networks Do
Personal event networks create a world beyond mobile and social where products are part of your social network.
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