Omemo - the coolest thing I have seen in 23 minutes.

Why 23 minutes? Because 20 minutes ago I threw a match off the side of my building and I watched it spin upwards for roughly 3 minutes. Staying level with my eyes as it caught by the updraft of wind.

Enter Omemo.

Omemo promotes itself as a “Social Storage Network” - or a big hard drive where you can store anything you want.

How it works. You download their little application and install it, and grant it permission to a section of your hard drive. You then can upload files to the network, which get cut up into little pieces and sent across the omemo network to other users hard drives. You can that allow the file to be public and search able or private. So no one file is not stored in 1 place, it is actually stored in hundreds if not thousands of places. (more like 30-40 places until the network grows)

Content can be filtered, thank god, so that a search for a file or document will not give you a bunch of porn or other stuff that you do not want to see.

So this will either be the next target of the RIAA / MPAA or one of the coolest idea’s of the year. 2008 could be the year of the Omemo. This will hold me over until Knol comes out. The possibilities with this is amazing - also the company which makes the software has made it open source.

More information can be found on the Omemo website.

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