When I wrote about the decentralization movement a year back, one of the big pro-privacy hopes was Mailpile, which is ambitiously trying to build a user-friendly yet rock-solid encrypted webmail system… Read more »
The open-source personal server platform Sandstorm just became way more viable: Having previously raised just under $59,000 through a crowdfunding campaign, it’s now pulled in $1.315 million in a seed round… Read more »
The pro-privacy project Ind.ie, which I covered a couple times last year, has scaled back its ambitions due to a lack of resources – despite having raised over $100,000 in a… Read more »
True disruption doesn’t mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. Read more »
Sandstorm’s indie web app platform, which is currently crowdfunding, is picking up ports at an impressive rate. Earlier this week WordPress made an appearance, and now Apache (née Google) Wave has… Read more »
Currently crowdfunding, Sandstorm is a genuinely exciting opportunity for the creation of a viable, federation-friendly indie web-app ecosystem. It promises the benefits of running your own server, without having to actually… Read more »