Free network services entrepreneur and autonomo.us participant Evan Prodromou on privacy and cloud services: Like many Americans, I’m furious to find out that our government has been using massive data mining of cell phones and cloud services to spy on Continue reading
FSF executive director (and autonomo.us participant) John Sullivan quoted in The Atlantic Wire: “Massive privacy intrusions like this are to be expected when people shift from storing their media locally and using local software, to storing them on other people’s Continue reading
Libre.fm launched 4 years ago. Libre.fm blog post, identi.ca conversations with stats: now over 100k tracks under free licenses.
Probably the most feasible Skype-replacement for all just released version 2.0: Among the most prominent new features you will find quality multi-party video conferences for XMPP, audio device hot-plugging, support for Outlook presence and calls, an overhauled user interface and Continue reading
Recent FOSDEM panel Free, open, secure and convenient communications: Can we finally replace Skype, Viber, Twitter and Facebook? (watch video recording there or download) didn’t directly answer the question posed, but is highly recommended. Some overall observations and questions: Call Continue reading
Discourse aims to be the WordPress of forums. At first glance from user perspective it has improved on forums more than WordPress did on blogs at the time of its introduction (WordPress’ large improvements over alternatives were ease of installation Continue reading
Interesting and good to see autonomo.us-y issues addressed in a law review article — David Lametti (2012) The Cloud: Boundless Digital Potential or Enclosure 3.0?. Virgina Journal of Law & Technology (full article PDF; AcaWiki summary). But, also somewhat frustrating. Continue reading
Over the last years when I’d notice a thing (project, blog, manifesto…) along the lines of autonomo.us, I’d think for a moment that if autonomo.us were active, we’d note and reach out. Well… The CitizenWeb Project was announced few days Continue reading
30 months later… An excellent post by Brianna Laugher served to remind me of the need to reboot autonomo.us: Autonomy is a term not widely used by free software activists, although it has been – the autonomo.us group was set Continue reading
This post is an essay based on my talks at Libre Planet 2010 and GUADEC 2010. While not strictly about web services, it is about a strongly related topic that may be of interest to free software supporters who read Continue reading