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Note to Self: Two Open Source data projects I have to play with

Data is wealth. And I don’t like the idea of having all my data making other people wealthy. In my continuing quest (, ) to track alternates to popular, commercial,…

Data is wealth. And I don’t like the idea of having all my data making other people wealthy. In my continuing quest (FreedomBox, ThinkUP) to track alternates to popular, commercial, offerings, here’s my latest list of things in the order I hope to play with when I find the time

:)

Dropbox -> OwnCloud

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I can’t live without Dropbox frankly. It is an awesome piece of software. The folks over OwnCloud have, what looks like, a decent offering. And besides files, it also supports syncing for bookmarks, contacts and calendars across devices.

YouTube/Flickr/Soundcloud -> MediaGoblin

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MediaGoblin lets you host and share videos, music, and images and is a replacement for media-publishing services. I just bought a domain — nag.pics — that I thought I could use with this

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Recovered from the site’s WordPress archive, where it was published on 2014-06-17.