I’ve proposed a panel discussion on issues of Autonomy in the Cloud for the upcoming South by Southwest Interactive in March 2009. I think that SxSW is a potentially very friendly crowd where network services and cloud computing are a Continue reading →

It’s interesting to see that fairly popular social bookmarking site Magnolia has announced their plan to make the next version of their software Free and Open Source Software. Magnolia’s had an “open” strategy for a while, with support of OpenID Continue reading →

The announcement of the DiSo Project in December of 2007 was a great encouragement for people on the Web who are worried about identity silos, “walled gardens”, and user lock-in on social networking platforms. Since so many of these subjects Continue reading →

Kragen Sitaker has been working for years on the problem of making Web sites and other network services that respect users’ autonomy in the same way Free Software does. When we initiated the group that became the autonomo.us project, his Continue reading →