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5 reasons why you must choose personal cloud over public online services

Public Online  Services : Facebook, Twitter, Google & others

Personal Cloud: Tonido pioneers the new paradigm of personal cloud which allows users to store data locally but share globally!
Reason 1:
Whenever tech blogs raise hue and cry that the world is coming to an end because GMail and Google Apps are down , you can write a [...]

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The Future of Social Networking: Fixing low SNR

One of the things I ponder about is how the world of social networking is going to evolve and change in the future. It is clear that current modes of communication and interaction are going to change to something else. That will be the next Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/Flickr/Ning.
Obviously, it is hard to imagine what those modes of [...]

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SenseCam: Is it sensible?

Recently, I came across the SenseCam Research Project by Microsoft. Although it looks cool, it surely looks like another way to invade your privacy.
Microsoft defines SenseCam as a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn.
The next logical question is where to store these photographs [...]

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What Everybody Ought to Know About facebook’s Terms of Service ?

Anybody who has a facebook account (that includes us) or planning  to open a new account  should be concerned about certain details in facebook’s Terms of Service. Check out the highlighted area of facebook’s TOS. What it really means is that - ” Facebook literally owns all your user content even if you delete your  [...]

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Web 2.0 Heroes: Some Comments

 
I recently read the book “Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers“ and it was interesting from several perspectives. The book’s format was Q&A with several luminaries who are shaping the user experiences in the internet today. From behemoths like Ebay, Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, IBM, Sun to startups like Ning, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Twitter, [...]

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