API Strategist

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Programming with Personal Clouds: A Post-Web Architecture – Phil Windley, Kynetx

  • Personal cloud made up of a constellation of persistent computational objects – picos
  • Picos have identity, storage, open-event network, processing, event channels, and APIs
  • “Mirror Worlds” – David Gelernter – sounds like today, written in 1993
  • Clouds should center around objects and people
  • Any programming language
  • OAuth access
  • Pico provides data, API
  • Fuse is an example – has its own GPS, phone used to sample and transmit data about your car
  • “I’ve been keeping track of my gasoline purchases into my truck’s personal cloud”
  • Others
    • Dropbox
    • remoteStorage and unhosted.org
    • Camlistore
    • Personal.com

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