Locker (software)

This article is about the software package. For other uses, see Locker.

The Locker Project is discontinued open source software for users to record their "digital wake"[1] - the sites they visit, the purchases they make, and various other activities that they engage in. Startup Singly was funding development of Locker, in the belief that third-party developers would build apps on top of Locker, such as recommender systems.[2]

Singly was founded by Jeremie Miller, creator of XMPP, Jason Cavnar and Simon Murtha-Smith. Matt Zimmerman, former CTO of Ubuntu, joined Singly and was the CTO.[3]

Locker is free software under a BSD license.[4]

Privacy

It was intended that users would be able to control which parts of their locker they share with their social network and companies they interact with.

Technical details

Developers can write Connectors to pipe data in from a web site such as Flickr, or a local application such as a web browser. Alternatively, they can write Synclets, which are a newer, more lightweight alternative to Connectors.

The Locker development team have started writing code to use the TeleHash protocol (initially created by Miller) to distribute data directly between contacts in a peer to peer manner, i.e. without the need for centralised servers.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Steve McNally (30 June 2011). "The Locker Project and Your Digital Wake". Forbes.com. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Ryan Kim (4 February 2011). "The Locker Project: Why Leave Data Tracking to Others? Do It Yourself". GigaOM. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Marshall Kirkpatrick (27 May 2011). "Look Out, Future: Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman Joins Locker Project & Singly". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  4. ↑ https://raw.github.com/LockerProject/Locker/master/LICENSE

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