Seeking Solid Ground

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Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has spent the past few years working on a vision for a new and better Internet. He showed up at the Reuters Next conference recently and gave an update.

Dear Reader,

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has spent the past few years working on a vision for a new and better Internet. He showed up at the Reuters Next conference recently and gave an update.

Solid (Social Linked Data) [1] is a project led by Berners-Lee and developed in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The goal is to create a fully functioning Internet that gives users control of their own data. The project envisions "…a web where people can use a single sign-on for any service and personal data is stored in pods (personal online data stores), controlled by the user" [2].

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