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Passing On Your Cloud Pt. 2

Published by Taylor on May 11, 2009 in Culture, Data Portability, Legal Issues, Lifestyle, People Send Us Things, Privacy and Security. View Comments

Friend and reader Gagan writes (posting here in an attempt to convince him to guest blog in the future):

Heard an interview on NPR this afternoon with the guy who created Legacy Locker.  Basically, he was trying to secure the on-line identity of his deceased grandmother, but it was essentially impossible.  Which begs the question: what happens to your on-line identity once you die?

So this guy developed a small business where they basically keep all of your on-line information (log-ins, passwords, etc.), and your instructions for how to deal with your on-line identity once you’re gone (give it to a specific person/specific people, destroy it, etc.).  According to the interview, they currently have 1,000 customers, and they’ve only been operating for about a month.  I could see this thing taking off.

More on CNET and TechCrunch.

Jarred pondered many of the issues Legacy Locker aims to resolve in his post Passing On Your Cloud.

People Send Us Things, Part I: The World Wide Web Foundation

Published by Jarred on October 9, 2008 in Computing, Education, People Send Us Things, Philanthropy and Web 2.0. View Comments

We like getting e-mail, tweets, and feed shares about cool stuff that you think we should blog about.  We also like creating new “series” of posts to a) establish sub-themes for the blog, b) encourage us to keep posting, and c) give us some shadow of legitimacy to hold onto.  Additionally, if you can’t tell, prepositions are my favorite things to end sentences with.  Thus is born a series we’re going to call “People Send Us Things”, and this story passed to us by Brika is just what we were looking… for.

Not too many people can legitimately include anything approaching the following in their bio/resume:

Tim Berners-LeeIn 1989 he invented the World Wide Web.

Boom.  Street Geek cred: check.  The man who created teh internetz is none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and he’s on to a new project — the World Wide Web Foundation.  This organization seeks to do the following:

  • to advance One Web that is free and open,
  • to expand the Web’s capability and robustness,
  • and to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet.

Huh… that mission statement kinda reminds me of this little start-up in Mountain View.  Anyway…

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