Re: The Case for the Federated Social Web

On 06/07/12 11:26, Michiel de Jong wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Antonio Tapiador del Dujo
> <atapiador@dit.upm.es>  wrote:
>> I wish we had something like this in academia, so you could follow some
>> research colleagues and get updates about new publications, congress they
>> are attending, etc.
> we (the unhosted project) are actively targetting academia for the
> read-write-web protocol that we are promoting ("remoteStorage"). it's
> not social out of the box, but we believe it's a fundamental building
> block, and a big step towards what we're all trying to build here.
>
> Academia is where email and the web started. As i said, remoteStorage
> is a start, not the whole thing. it's a building block which other
> people can use to build user-centric tools on top of.
>
> So far we have been talking to the Netherlands and Greece, if you
> think you could run (and administer) a remoteStorage server at your
> university, or convince your university to do that, then we could add
> Spain on the map for at least that part of the stack.
>
Hi Michiel, it is not clear for me how running a remoteStorage can help 
with the two use cases I mentioned above.

Received on Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:53:11 UTC