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Comment on About by Miron’s Weblog » Motivation and Background for the User Controlled Web

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:44:55 +0000

[...] Lukas talks about the user-controlled web and the mine project. (She coins a fun acronym: Relationships on Individuals’ Own Terms [...]

Comment on Open, distributed and yours… by dropsafe : How to follow Facebook and Livejournal using Feedreaders, and thereby recover some privacy

Thu, 06 May 2010 09:04:28 +0000

[...] – or perhaps “local, sustainable computing” – featuring “asocial software” like feed-readers and mines. As Mathias Baert’s tag line for #themineproject has it: [...]

Comment on About by ProjectVRM Blog » VRM Mojo Working

ProjectVRM Blog » VRM Mojo Working — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:28:55 +0000

[...] it happens, this is also a key insight of The Mine! Project, whose About page says, The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality that will help [...]

Comment on The Mine! Project – Google Tech Talk Part 2 by Dhruv

Dhruv — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:56:20 +0000

Interesting concept! Very cool.

However, I have a view on the existence of multi-national corps to manage this. The value add that these corps bring to the table is simplicity for the layman. And potentially, advanced infrastructure for security in this case.

I can see myself using Mine. But I can’t see some of my non-techie friends using it. Hence, there is a need. And when there is a need, there is a corporation.

Comment on About by dropsafe : Facebook, Google, Privacy, the BBC, the decade and Edward Stourton

dropsafe : Facebook, Google, Privacy, the BBC, the decade and Edward Stourton — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:23:20 +0000

[...] Fortunately Cox is wrong in his assertion – there’s nothing to prevent you enabling your own access control. There’s nothing to stop you being a node. Not least, this is what themineproject is all about. [...]

Comment on About by Monkeymagic » About « The Mine! Project

Monkeymagic » About « The Mine! Project — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:02:35 +0000

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Comment on Twitter analytics for individual users by Shared Items – August 23, 2009 | disruptive by nature

Shared Items – August 23, 2009 | disruptive by nature — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:01:46 +0000

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Comment on Chrome OS and the Mine! by alecm

alecm — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:58:51 +0000

>Which would probably be the only thing it would need to run, ever.

An amusing image; but that’s not what I am seeking, not at all.

This is *not* a zero-sum game.

We’re not trying to replace the whole of computing with a bunch of webservers – that would be madness, and also would go against my belief of the cyclic incarnations of IT technologies (http://blip.tv/file/422428 — old, but still relevant)

What we’re trying to do is give the generation who use blogs and social media an *extra* tool, one which gives them the ability to participate on the web / in the net in a *new* way, and on their own terms.

I wonder whether the inventor of the telephone was told “Ah, we see, you’re trying to displace books and newspapers! Ha!” — well, in the end, it sort of has done… but that wasn’t the point.

The point was that it was something new; and we think the Mine is something better than a telephone, because it’s your service, not Ma Bell’s or BT’s.

Comment on Chrome OS and the Mine! by Jim

Jim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:58:57 +0000

…so an ideal home setup for J Random User would be a desktop and/or a laptop running just a browser (and any antediluvian apps that are still actual native apps, like – oh, I dunno – media players and games), and a teeny little always-on server running their Mine. Which would probably be the only thing it would need to run, ever.

That right?

Comment on Open, distributed and yours… by Kingsley Idehen

Kingsley Idehen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:40:05 +0000

Adriana,

The solution to the Web 2.0 (where centralized “Software as a Service” is the norm) implosion is a return to federated solutions that leverage the Wide Area Networking features of the Internet and Web ( the Internet’s HTTP data network cluster).

We proudly posses one of the oldest and generally misunderstood pieces of technology called OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS). This platform is fundamentally about giving individuals or enterprises the ability to create and deploy their own Data Spaces (Blogs, Wikis, Feed Aggregation, Discussion Forums, and more) on the Web.

Links:

1. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/Ods – ODS Open Source Edition Home Page

2. http://pnt.me/Dwi7mx — collection of posts about ODS from the past

Kingsley