Connected devices, web services and Signpost

The number of internet-enabled devices is increasing and mobile phones only represent one category. Other types of 'enabled' devices can be made quite cheaply, contain a multitude of sensors and be situated almost anywhere. Signpost addresses the difficult yet fundamental problem for properly enabling the 'internet-of-things'. That of creating robust, ad-hoc, private connections between devices.

Posted on 08 February 2012 by Amir Chaudhry
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Towards Statistical Queries over Distributed Data

One of the issues with the distributed nature of personal data is the ability to perform statistical queries over it. A new project is taking shape, which will use personal containers and the principles of Dataware to build an employee incentive scheme to optimise energy usage.

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Amir Chaudhry
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Privacy needs to be built in

Today, news broke about how O2, a Mobile Network Operator, reveals customers' mobile numbers when they browse from their phones.

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Amir Chaudhry
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Growing awareness of Personal Data

Awareness of Personal Data issues have risen in prominence in recent years and there have even been a number of new companies springing up around the idea of personal data stores.

Posted on 20 January 2012 by Amir Chaudhry
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Aether's Notebook

Introducing Aether's Notebook, a generic logging framework for Android.

Posted on 01 September 2011 by Richard Mortier
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Moving Personal Containers to the next stage

Announcing the http://perscon.net website refresh!

Posted on 31 August 2011 by Richard Mortier
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Yurts for Digital Nomads

The App Engine data collector for Personal Containers is coming on nicely, and working with AppEngine has been interesting; it's got excellent availability and you can't beat the price (free), but coding robust Python that doesn't trip over the tight resource limits for individual requests and asynchronous tasks and queries is tricky. While it is good for small records such as my iPhone or FindMyiPhone GPS traces traces, it doesn't work so well with my gigabytes of photographs or decades of e-mail.

Posted on 29 April 2010 by Anil Madhavapeddy
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Pulling together a user interface

Personal containers gather data from a wide variety of sources, and normalise them into a format which understands people (address book entries, with a set of services such as e-mail, phone, IM and online IDs), places (GPS, WOEID), media (photos, movies) and messages (Tweets, emails, Facebook messages).

Posted on 15 April 2010 by Anil Madhavapeddy
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A Personal Containers Marketplace

Personal Containers securely hold all your personal data to help maintain your privacy and security, and the current prototype enables that. However, to liberate the value contained within your personal data means allowing third-parties access to it somehow, so that they can provide services, advertising and other value-add.

Posted on 09 April 2010 by Richard Mortier
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Opening a website

We've been working away at building a new type of database to help individuals keep reigns on their ever-increasing personal digital information.

Posted on 29 March 2010 by Anil Madhavapeddy
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