The Story of CLOUD
CLOUD is a big idea based on a simple premise. The Internet should start with us, not webpages. Our connections are bigger than the edges of a website, deeper than an individual social networking page and broader than any one of us can imagine. But, our connections are broken. Think about it. How many times have you reentered exactly the same data about yourself when surfing the web? For that matter, how many times have you filled out the same form at the doctor's office, the school administration office or when applying for a loan? It's not just an online problem. It's an offline problem, too. It doesn't have to be this way. Just like HTML unleashed the Web revolution; CLOUD's CTML will unleash the ME revolution.
We want you to join us on the journey to a new Internet. We've put together these vignettes to help you dig deeper into our vision and how it will all work. Each of these four little stories unpeels another layer of the CLOUD vision. Roll your mouse over the titles to the right to get a glimpse into the basics and then click play to learn even more. If you like what you see, click through to the video at ANewCLOUD's YouTube channel and tell your friends. It's their Internet, too.
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CLOUD and the Internet
The Internet and the World Wide Web are not the same. Understanding this is the first step to understanding the core principles behind CLOUD, Inc.
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CLOUD and ME 1.0
Web 2.0 defined the evolution of the HTML-based era of the Internet. ME 1.0 defines the next evolution of the Internet itself. It is a whole new way of thinking about how the Internet works.
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CLOUD and the Power of WHO
What if there was an API for you? Not a password... not another log-in... but a language of WHO. It is one of the four pillars of the contextual markup language (CTML) that CLOUD is building.
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Connecting WHO and WHAT in the CLOUD
Current proponents of the Semantic Web view the challenge of web pages as a data problem. CLOUD sees it as a people problem. Connecting WHO I Am to WHAT I Am is how the two become fused in a new future of ME 1.0.
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Sibos 2010 - Smart Data Keynote
At SWIFT's annual financial conference in Amsterdam in October 2010, Gary Thompson discussed how CLOUD's vision relates to not only smart data but how reweaving the fabric of the Internet can advance financial intelligence.
What is CLOUD?
See a list of industry terms at CLOUDspeak.
What if there was another way? What if there was something beyond a single log-in? What if there was an approach that made privacy a core part of the Internet’s architecture? What if there was an approach that moved beyond the whole browser paradigm and the limitations of HTML and web pages? What if there was a new language for the Internet, built around you and not web pages?
CLOUD is building that language. CLOUD is the Consortium for Local Ownership and Use of Data. We are a non-profit technology standard consortia started in early 2009 that believes that a new era of ME 1.0 is at hand, an era that looks beyond Web 2.0, while simultaneously looking to the founding principles of the Internet as the solution to many of today’s most vexing issues of privacy, security and data.
