#DefragCon 2013: Programming with Personal Clouds: A Post-Web Architecture — Phil Windley, Kynetx

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

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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