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KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

KDE.News has a look at the ownCloud initiative coming out of the Camp KDE discussions. "If and when a serious number of providers join this effort or support the interface, nobody will have to join a myriad of different social networks just because he or she has friends on all these incompatible, separate clouds - they will all be able to connect. If users are unhappy with a provider, they will be able to move on to another provider without losing all of the information and connections they have created with that provider, opening up the market and creating opportunities for new companies and innovative services. As an added benefit, users concerned about their online security and privacy can stay in full control of their own data by running their own cloud server." More information can be found in this slide deck [PDF].

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KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 26, 2010 16:14 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

Gah! Sending an email from Gmail to all Facebook contacts is currently impossible, it says. Let me be the first to say: thank goodness.

But in general, the whole thing suffers from the what do they mean by cloud this time problem. After reading it, this seems to be "the regular Internet, but now we call it 'cloud'". And you can rate wallpaper.

KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 27, 2010 7:28 UTC (Wed) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]

That is why marketing folk eat this word "cloud" up. With infinite meanings,
the possibilities are endless. They can just sell someone a cloud and then
find out what they really want, then create and deliver. Business as usual.

KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 27, 2010 9:29 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

What I would like to see instead is a real way to make collaboration possible from the desktop.
Think of a peer-to-peer desktop that allows me to share files, chat, talk or work collaboratively over the Internet _without_ a server.

KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud (KDE.News)

Posted Feb 1, 2010 15:17 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

So... this is basically about standardising federated social networking, yes?


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