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Personal Event Network
Your Internet of ThingsPersonal Event Network
Your personal event network connects all the things in your life to make your day-to-day activities much simple.
On the frontier of the Internet building the Live Web
one Personal Event Network at a time.
From Personal Computers to Personal Clouds
The Advent of the Cloud OS
A White Paper by
Craig Burton, Scott David, Drummond Reed, Doc Searls & Phillip J. Windley
Personal Computers to Personal Clouds explains why the future of personal clouds will be very different from what you have imagined. As more and more of our interactions move online, we increasingly have need of an online place that operates for us. Personal clouds must become more than appliances to achieve their real potential. While appliances provide value, they can't anticipate every need. They aren't flexible enough. This paper, from some of the Internet's leading visionaries and technologists outlines a vision of personal clouds as general purpose virtual computers. Making that vision real requires an operating system so that developers have a framework to work within. Operating systems provide a core set of services around identity and data as well as a programming model. Download a copy now to learn how those services will work.
Latest stuff from Phil's blog
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Federating Personal Clouds
One of the most important aspects of personal clouds, as we envision them, is their ability to federate. Without federation, personal clouds are as interesting as a computer without a network connection.
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A Programming Model for Personal Clouds
As we discussed in Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers, when personal clouds begin to act as peers with other network services, people gain unprecedented power and leverage.
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Data Abstractions for Richer Cloud Experiences
As we discussed earlier, one of the primary services of a cloud OS (COS) will be data abstraction.
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The Foundational Role of Identity in a Personal Cloud
If we're to build personal clouds supported by a cloud operating system (COS), then we need to understand the key services that the COS would provide to the user.
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Personal Clouds Need a Cloud Operating System
If you need an OS for you laptop, your phone, and your tablet, why don't you need one in the cloud?
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Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers
There's no doubt that clouds are big business. A 2011 report from research firm Gartner put worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue at $12.1 billion ...
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KRL, Data, and Personal Clouds
Personal clouds need access to data. Lots of data. Data from all over. I envision my personal cloud as a general purpose computing platform that is always working for me.
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Protocols and Metaprotocols: What is a Personal Event Network?
This blog post sets forth several important naming conventions for personal event networks
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Ways Not Places
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, we've been fixated on the concept of "place." The entire language of the Web is about location: we visit Web sites using Web addresses.
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Sending Events in Parallel
I'm happy to announce that the event library now supports the send() action. Using it in the code for the On-Call TA demonstration wouldn't change it very much.
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Event Channels
Recently I've been putting a lot of thought in to personal event networks and the need for federation between networks and the role notifications play in personal event networks.
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Sky Event Console
When you're writing a KRL ruleset, you can turn debugging logs on quite easily using the logging pragma in the meta section of the ruleset
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On Call TA: Distributed Event Network Federation Through Subscription
This post is about a working demonstration of event subscription in personal event networks.
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An Operating System for Your Personal Cloud
Everyone has a cloud strategy these days. Of course, when you hear about clouds, you hear questions like "Are we talking about IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS?"
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Place-Based Networks
Here's a thought-provoking piece on place-based networks from Gideon Rosenblatt.
