What is the real value of Gmail and why it's important to think about...
Last month there was a discussion on Slashdot about do-it-yourself Gmail alternatives. Email is an essential Internet service. Therefore, I think that the object of that discussion is extremely...
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Call to fund research on an easy and COMPLETE alternative to Gmail, Facebook...
Source: Ray MacLean on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymaclean/3548172441/ UPDATE 2013/09/17: THIS PROJECT NOW HAS A HOME AT per-cloud.comI have been using my own email service and self-hosted...
View ArticleYes, the percloud is "just" another Gnu/Linux distro. That's why it's a good...
The percloud is my proposal for an easy to use personal cloud, that is for a feasible alternative for the masses to Facebook, Gmail, and all similar centralized Web services and their privacy and data...
View ArticleThe real problem that the percloud wants to solve, and why it's still necessary
Believe it or not, I only discovered arKos last Friday, through this Slashdot announcement: a project (apparently) very similar to the percloud, which is my own proposal for a Free Software alternative...
View ArticleHere is how the percloud would work, in practice
I just got an email by somebody asking how the Free Software alternative to corporate social networks that I call percloud would work. I answered that…In a certain sense, we may compare a percloud to a...
View ArticleOn the percloud, one year later
One year ago I launched a proposal, with related fundraiser, for an alternative to Facebook, Gmail and similar services really usable by normal people, the percloud. That fundraiser did not succeed,...
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Yahoo, or why geeks need to give ALL their friends a PERSONAL email server now
By now, you probably already know that Yahoo scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence”, and if you haven’t you can read all the details in the previous link, or in many other places. Here, I only...
View ArticleUK Labour "closer scrutiny of algorithms" will be useless. If you are lucky
It looks like the UK Labour party will soon call for closer scrutiny of tech firms and their algorithms. If all goes well, it just won’t work, and that will the end of it. Otherwise, it will be really...
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