Re: [projectvrm] The swing toward decentralized, distributed and hierarchical solutions

[Johannes Ernst < >]

Michael ... very interesting.

I've been trying to get it to run, and have run into some issues. Does the 
project have a mailing list where I could post those? (couldn't find one) Or 
how do you prefer to receive questions?

Thanks,


Johannes.

On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:45, Michael Powers 
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 wrote:

> We've been lurking while in development, but now we're expanding our
> alpha test, so I wanted to add:
> 
> Trsst Project
> <https://www.trsst.com>
> 
> In short, it looks and feels like Twitter, but you create and own your
> own accounts, keys, and data.  You can either host yourself or choose
> a vendor to host your content with no lock-in.  The hosting providers
> are simply dumb http servers serving atom feeds via a rest API backed
> by dumb storage.
> 
> This gives us a happy side-effect of being able to 'follow' all
> existing RSS and Atom feeds, so there's a rich content ecosystem
> out-of-the-box, and we leverage existing content workflows and
> interop.  You can get a taste here:
> 
> https://home.trsst.com
> 
> The protocol is AtomPub plus XML-Sig and XML-Enc, so anyone can
> support it, and we have a completely open Apache-licensed stack ready
> for play here:
> 
> https://github.com/trsstproject/trsst
> 
> You can read more in one convenient place on our Knight News Challenge
> entry -- please do click the little "Applause" button at the bottom of
> that page if you like what we're doing.
> 
> https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/feedback-review/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-open-web
> 
> Thanks, all.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Doc Searls
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>  wrote:
>> The latest is Etherium...
>> <https://www.ethereum.org>
>> 
>> Also in our midst, telehash:
>> <http://telehash.org>
>> 
>> CozyCloud:
>> <http://cozy.io>
>> 
>> CloudOS:
>> <https://github.com/windley/CloudOS-Todo-Demo>
>> 
>> Quiet but still ready, The Mine! Project:
>> <http://themineproject.org>
>> 
>> Your solution I'm forgetting here:
>> <>
>> 
>> Additional background:
>> 
>> Escaping the black holes of centralization:
>> <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/?p=8093>
>> 
>> Distributed + Systems:
>> <http://www.windley.com/tags/distributed+systems>
>> 
>> Seven ways to think like the Web & more:
>> <http://blog.jonudell.net/2011/01/24/seven-ways-to-think-like-the-web/>
>> <http://www.wired.com/tag/jon-udell/>
>> 
>> Others? Independent personal clouds and servers, I would imagine. 
>> (Reminder to self: hook up the SpaceMonkey: <https://www.spacemonkey.com>.)
>> 
>> Maybe we should create a category for them in the wiki.
>> 
>> Thoughts? Cc'ing a few others who might want to weigh in, including ones 
>> whose work is cited above.
>> 
>> And, lest we think only along (what some among us might call) a 
>> libertarian vector here, let's also think about how distributed 
>> independence for individuals works for all those (and they are many) 
>> pulling VRM toward CRM and vice versa, for example by building CX 
>> (customer experience) systems and methods in the middle.
>> 
>> Doc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>