Within the SOLID ecosystem, you you decide where your data is storedInstall Solid Pod to store the photos you have, the comments you write, the contacts in your address book, the calendar events, the number of kilometers you travel each day from your exercise application. All are stored in your Solid POD.
This Solid POD can be at your home or workplace, or with a Solid POD provider. Since you own your data, you can move them at any timewithout interruption of service.
How to install Solid Pod?
Gives people and their applications permission to read or write in parts of your Solid POD. Whenever you open a new application, you don't have to fill in your data anymore: it is read from your POD with your permission. Things saved through one application are available in another: you never have to synchronize, because your data stays with you .
This approach protects your privacy and is also great for developers from artificial intelligence applications. They can create great applications without having to collect large amounts of data. Anyone can create an application that takes advantage of this technology.
For install Solid PodGo to the following link and register your data, you will get a private key to store your personal data that you can carry on a pendrive.
YOUR POD IS YOUR PERSONAL PRIVATE STORAGE KEY
Store everything you want on your own solid POD. PODs are like secure USB sticks for the web, which you can access from anywhere. When you give others access to parts of your POD, they can react to your photos and share their memories with you. You decide what things apps and people can see.
Think of your Solid POD as your own private websiteexcept that its data interacts with all your applications. It has its own personal API to go with it. When you post comments or videos online, your friends can view them with any application they like, such as an album viewer or social network. It's your information, which can be shaped in any way or form.
You can have as many PODs as you want, they are on Solid-enabled web servers. Install Solid Server on your own server in your home or workplace, or get a Solid POD from a supplier included.
YOUR SOLID POD PROVIDES YOUR IDENTITY
To prove ownership of your data, you need a way to identify yourself. Instead of relying on a third party, you can use your Solid POD to say who you are. So no more "Sign in with X" or "Sign in with Y" on the Web, just "Sign in with X". "Login with your own Solid POD" .
"The web, as I had imagined it, we haven't seen it yet. The future is still much bigger than the past." - Tim Berners.
Solid is the technology behind a movement, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to turn the web back to its original vision. To understand the 'why' of Solid, it is important to understand the phases of a web page and how it deviates from Sir Tim's original and inspiring vision.
The idea of Solid Pod on the web
The first web browser was also an editor. The idea is that not only can everyone read the content on the web, but they can also help create it. It was to be a collaborative space for all of humanity.
However, when the first browser that popularized the web, called Mosaic, appeared, it included multimedia and editing was eliminated. It was considered too difficult a problem. This change was the first reduction in the promise of the web and spawned an effort led by Tim and others to bring back the writing functionality. It was dubbed the 'read-write web' and led to the seminal article by Richard McManus published in 2003.
Solid has taken more than 15 years of development work to finally come up with this.
Solution to privacy issues
The problem with writing data, such as wikipedia and other systems. It has been learned that you need a degree of control over who can write what. That means you need to have permissions to modify data. And to have permissions, you need to have an identity system, a way to uniquely confirm that an individual is who they pretend to be.
The web was always designed to be a space for data and documents. The Linked Data Platform group formalized this further by creating a standard for working with file systems. When combined with the Unix philosophy they form a powerful way to achieve this. These principles, read/write capability and accessibility to managed data are key to the original and powerful concept of the web. Unfortunately, they were lost along the way as the web evolved.
Solid, has been based on existing web standards and the result of decades of work. Solid has the functionality of read and write, incorporating permissions and identity. We have the ability to manage data and updates in real time through a webocket.
It realizes the web as originally planned and provides a platform for the next generation of development of applications truly potential and innovative.
