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

[Michael Powers < >]

We're just now starting to use Trsst to talk about Trsst, but if you
can't connect that's not going to help you. :)

Some informal support happens on Twitter @TrsstProject, but feel free
to ping me directly at this address, and I'll add your issue to the
FAQ at github as well.

If I could once more beseech folks that have an interest to click our
"applause" button for the newschallenge, I'd be most grateful.

https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-open-web

Cheers,

  - Michael


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Johannes Ernst 
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> 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.
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> On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:45, Michael Powers 
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>  wrote:
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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