Thanks NSA for your great help. No, seriously!
Sometimes support comes in the most unexpected ways. Today the NSA, the super-secret spy agency that intercepts countless digital communications worldwide, greatly helped me, by providing evidence that a little project of mine is a really great idea that is sorely needed NOW.
Cozy Cloud and percloud: a comparison
Shortly after launching my proposal for a personal, p2p replacement of Facebook, Gmail and similar services I was contacted by the developers of Cozy Cloud. We had a very interesting discussion, which ended with their proposal to write a post for their blog, to explain what similarities, differences and possible synergies I see between the two projects. Here I am, looking forward to your feedback!
Percloud crowdfunding, Albanian Translation
(this is a translation in Albanian of my percloud crowdfunding call, kindly provided by Gagi Berani. An Italian translation is here. Thanks in advance to whoever may provide translations in other languages)
Permbledhje e shkurte
Unë jam një autor freelance, hulumtues, dhe aktivist që punon në çeshtjet e të drejtave digjitale dhe të Softuerit të lirë. Mund të lexoni lidhur më punën dhe background-in tim këtu.
Here is how the percloud would work, in practice
I just got an email by somebody asking how the Free Software alternative to corporate social networks that I call percloud would work. I answered that…
The real problem that the percloud wants to solve, and why it's still necessary
Believe it or not, I only discovered arKos last Friday, through this Slashdot announcement: a project (apparently) very similar to the percloud, which is my own proposal for a Free Software alternative to Facebook, Gmail &C.
Who will make the percloud happen? Traditional FOSS advocates, or everybody else?
A reader of my critique to the “Linux owns the Internet” slogan just made the comment integrally copied here: