The personal internet

Abstract

PeCMan, the Personal Content Manager, is a content access gateway, aggregator, indexing, and sharing tool for all of a user's personally relevant content on the Internet, e.g., all the content a user has created, content that was explicitly shared by others, or publicly available Internet content of specific interest. PeCMan aggregates access to multiple network-based storage systems, services, or other “objects” by their reference. Examples of such objects are photographs, music, e-mail, text documents, or any addressable object on the Internet. The aggregated storage acts as a virtual read-write drive in which PeCMan addresses individual objects by reference, typically encoded in uniform resource locators (URLs). To address content in Web applications such as Google Docs, Flickr, and YouTube, the URL is based on the corresponding application programming interface (API), while content on a user's home machine's disk is addressed via a locally installed software driver supporting Web-based distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV). This paper describes the motivation, design, and implementation prototype of PeCMan. é 2010 Alcatel-Lucent.

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