On breaking away from hosted silos
D'Arcy Norma,
D'Arcy Norman Dot Net,
Dec 30, 2010
"If people are to manage their own content, forming their digital identities," writes D'Arcy Norman, "they need a way to host software and content that doesn't require obscure and detailed technical knowledge." This is exactly right, and the solution he offers (or, more accurately, works his way around) is exactly right as well: people should be able to host their own web servers as easily as they run their own web browsers. Opera Unite is a good, early, example. Of course, "all of this is based on the (likely false) assumption that people really give a crap about running their own stuff and owning their software and data rather than continuing to feed their activity streams into 'free' hosted services." But they will. Mark my words, they will.
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