[generateui]

I like the cloud, but I really hate giving out control of my data. It makes a lot of sense for public data (tweets, blogposts), which you want to share anyways.

I see a lot of potential in a "drop": a personal cloud server installed at home, with the same user friendliness as e.g. google docs. Public data/services in the cloud, personal stuff at home. There still is enough opportunity to integrate mmoc? (massively multiple online collaboration?) into those apps. An example of this might be diaspora.

Many drops make a cloud, too.

[nooneelse]

I desire something along similar lines, TonidoPlug plus a rich app store. Owned by me. Plug in and log on simplicity. The option to mirror it up on a VPS rented by me if/when it needs a fatter pipe than my home connection. And mmoc (massively multiple online collaboration) instead of Facebook et alia sounds great to me. If someone wants to buy/use data about me, I would like them to have to come negotiate with the source.