On Friday 14 May 2010, Sean Phelan wrote:
> What I found intriguing here was that donors were willing to chip
>  in $130,000 to fund this, all in small-ish chunks.
> 
> The value of this would be undeniable - if it is able to interface
>  with facebook and linkedin, and run locally on someone's windows
>  PC, it can change the world one user at a time.

Hold it -- think about this.  If that was done, it would DEFEAT the 
entire point of the project, because it wouldn't fix ANY privacy 
issues, since the data would be copied to the services that have the 
privacy issues.  :-/  So interaction with other services is 
specifically a problem, unless there is a mechanism to control which 
specific pieces of data can be shared with specific outside services.

  -- Chris

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