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I hope in the long-run, as this grows and builds, that power users may actually be able to buy a small device that they can plug into their home network and that would be their locker. Wouldn’t that be cool? This little hard drive that you plug in.

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The Locker Project: data for the people - O’Reilly Radar

From what I can tell a locker is like a safe for your data. The obvious stuff you put in it is your content: tweets, blog posts, photos, videos. However, what it’s really geared for is stuff like your social graph, your search history, the tracks you’ve listened to on your ipod, the links you’ve clicked on and all the tiny bits of data we generate as we interact with computers and the internet. It’s the backend for lifelogging and the data store aspect of your outboard brain. And someone is actually making this now. Cool.