John Battelle wrote a post about an app called Tapestry last week. An app he wishes existed and that we aim to enable through our work and that of (the Locker Project) community. After his post, John started an offline conversation with Jason, much of which he chose to republish on his blog.
It communicated many of the core tentants of our work/thesis:
- Our data is scattered everywhere as a result of the explosion of apps, connected devices, and cloud based services.
- Today’s data conventions are a new form of centralization that makes building personalized apps a pain for developers.
- Singly is building a future where I own my data and apps pull data about me, from me.
- Frictionless development will unlock a world of innovation; that innovation will drive ubiquity of personal data ownership as developers build a new class of powerful applications.
- The new stack is not simply a software stack; it has data baked into it. The ways in which we structure the data is increasingly important due to the incredibly sensitive nature of the information.
- My data “home” will power what I do online and house a significant part of my identity. My identity is mine and will be protected by someone whom I trust.
- Singly is building this future. Version 1.0 of our platform is now available on an invite basis. We will be letting in several thousand developers (largely) over the coming months to help build out this future.
We’re excited to present this vision on Wednesday (tomorrow), October 19 @ 2:40p at the Web 2.0 Summit here in San Francisco. You can live stream it here.
