> I think this article points to a missing product in the market - integrated cloud services but with the cloud located on a private server in the home Absolut

> I think this article points to a missing product in the market - integrated cloud services but with the cloud located on a private server in the home Absolutely. But who's going to sell it to the masses? Most people don't care, as they haven't been told to - no one has sold it to them. And who is going to explain about the erosion of privacy? Would that be Google, the government? Why, when both are beneficiaries of the existing system (ie making money for google, increasing control and monitoring for govts)? This is a market that is studiously ignored as it is in no one's interests! Do you remember when Google piled into rss only to try its best to then kill it? When data is your business, it makes no sense to cut yourself out of the intermediation.