That certainly didn’t take long. The former two at Wikis, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has said that he will launch the next-eration of ing software (I guess you’d call it software) in the “coming months.” It’s to be called Opens, previously covered here, and it will try to fix some of the problems associated with the Wikis model, namely centralization.Unlike Wikis, Opens will be a “conduit” of information rather than a publisher of information (it “aims to provide the technological mns to organizations and other entities around the world to be able to accept anonymous submissions in the forms of documents or other information,” said Domscheit-Berg. Whers Wikis receives information, vets it, then relsed it on its site, Opens will simply exist to pass information along. It’ll be up to other organizations, like NGOs and “other interested entities,” not to mention traditional news outlets, to vet everything.
One of the big things that Opens will do away with is any sort of person becoming synonymous with it. When you think of Wikis you naturally think of Julian Assange, which is not how Opens wants to go about doing things. It doesn’t want a public “face” lest ego get involved, nor does it want any perceptible single point of failure.
That’s why Domscheit-Berg and others originally left Wikis, that it became too much about Wikis itself (and Assange, as it were) than about the information the site was publishing.
Opens will establish some sort of foundation in Germany to help build its legitimacy.
In other Wikis news, The Guardian, which is pretty much the go-to place for English-language Wikis news, has a lengthy story about the people behind the denial of service attacks against companies like Amazon and MasterCard. Worth a rd if you have a minute. (And lol at The Guardian for using Colloquy for IRC—rl men use X-Chat.)
Source: Tech Crunch
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