{"id":5516,"date":"2013-08-15T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2013-08-15T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:30:02","slug":"repostmeet-the-hackers-who-want-to-jailbreak-the-internet-wired-enterprise-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/15\/repostmeet-the-hackers-who-want-to-jailbreak-the-internet-wired-enterprise-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

On any given day, you\u2019ll find about 30 or 40 of them on an IRC chat channel, and each summer, they come together in the flesh for this two-day mini-conference, known as IndieWebCamp. They hack. They demonstrate. They discuss. They strive to create a new set of tools that can give you greater control over the stuff you post to the net \u2014 the photos, the status updates, the blog posts, the comments. \u201cThe Indie Web is a community of folks interested in owning their own content \u2014 and identity \u2014 online,\u201d says Tantek Celik, another developer at the heart of the movement.
\nThey ask questions like: What happens if Yahoo freezes your online account, loses your data, or goes out of business? What happens if you decide to move all your Facebook photos to another site? What if you want to reply to someone on Twitter using Google+? And then they build software that answers these questions.
\nPaul Fenwick at this summer\u2019s IndieWebCamp. Photo: Aaron Parecki
\nAt this year\u2019s camp, Fitzpatrick and fellow Googler Bret Slatkin showed off Camlistore, an open source alternative to cloud storage services like Google Drive. The aim is to give people software that works like Google Drive \u2014 that gives you instant access to your files from any machine \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t lock you into the Google way of doing things, and that always plays nicely with other services across the web.
\nThat may seem like an odd undertaking for two people employed by Google. But this is how many Googlers think, harboring the unshakably idealistic view that the needs of the web as a whole are more important even than those of the web company they work for.
\nThe Indie Web movement isn\u2019t about sticking it to Google or Facebook or Twitter. It\u2019s about creating a web that behaves like a single entity. After Fitzpatrick and Slatkin uncloaked their creation, a third Googler, Will Norris, showed off a WordPress plugin that lets you instantly grab posts from the open source blog platform and move them onto Google+, the search giant\u2019s social network.
\nMany people who work for Google, Facebook and Twitter, Norris says, \u201clive the Indie Web.\u201d
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On any given day, you\u2019ll find about 30 or 40 of them on an IRC chat channel, and each summer, they come together in the flesh for this two-day mini-conference, known as IndieWebCamp. They hack. They demonstrate. They discuss. They strive to create a new set of tools that can give you greater control over … <\/p>\n

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