Affected Clapping

One of the suggestions of the Franklin Street Declaration is for programmers to “[d]evelop software that can replace centralized services.” I’ve taken that suggestion to heart in creating the Laconica microblogging platform, which powers my site Identi.ca. I was using microblogging services a lot, and I wanted to have one that would preserve my autonomy; so I created my own.

I’d like to put forward some suggestions for other Web applications that are ripe for an Open Software Service implementation. These are Web applications that I use on a regular basis. I’d prefer to instead use services that respect my autonomy, and I’m looking forward to a point where I can live my life on-line that way. Here are some services that I use on-line regularly, and that I’d love to have Open alternatives for.

An Open Software Services Ecology :: autonomo.us.

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