| sort of been on my mind lately because like you say, should be easy ;) snapshot of current thinking: -some open pit data mining/management protocol exists and scrapes data out of your own personal forward proxy / metal that lives on the edge of fat bandwidth, you can do whatever you want with it, autogenerate bookmarks and forum interaction tags if you want (hadn't thought of that,) .. including not store it, because the software that stores it is part of a personally owned open source platform that is also providing all the cloud services that you normally go to third parties to obtain ..so.. -the basics are baked in, its got your social media/self-promotional pages that are interoperable with others, an online store, search/index peers are essentially friends on social networks.. its gets foggy, how much granularity? what sort of resource commit to the forward cache? anonymization routines? regional compliance issues? capability to sell dataset(?) like, who would actually use it? .. etc .. -if something like this were actually to organize i think it would be best visualized as some sort of platform in support of some server-farm co-op. also i keep thinking of openstack being overkill, somehow, and am likely wrong. -for a personal user on a watered down feature-set that isn't supporting a large organization and still elects to own their own bare metal, it would be like .. two netbooks in a post-office-box housing place that has fiber .. |