Why App.net is a good and a bad idea
App.net, a new service by the founder of imeem and picplz (two services who incidentally don’t exist anymore), wants to become the new Twitter, only without the constraints of having to pay for it with...
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In a nutshell or The TL;DR StatusNet is a full-featured self-hosted Twitter clone. But in order for it to be really useful as a replacement, it would need to be able to communicate with other...
View ArticleYOURLS
In a Nutshell YOURLS is a reliable, rather easy to set up, self-hosted short-URL service. It provides statistics, is open-source and free. Installation: ★★★★ Price: ★★★★★ Get it here: yourls.org What...
View ArticleBuddypress – Roll your own Social Network
In a Nutshell Buddypress is a WordPress based social network plugin, which is extremely easy to install and use. It’s free. As in beer. Installation: ★★★★★ Price: ★★★★★ Get it here: buddypress.org...
View ArticleOwnstagram
In a nutshell Ownstagram works much like infamous Instagram, allowing you to quickly shoot a picture, upload it and share it with your friends. It’s still a little rough around the edges but looks very...
View ArticleSelfoss
Google yesterday announced that their feedreader Google Reader is going to be sunset in July (sunset being the euphemism for shutting down – I don’t know what PR department dreamt that up). Recent...
View ArticleTiny Tiny RSS
Hot on the heels of my review of Selfoss, the basic but pretty RSS reader, comes my review of Tiny Tiny RSS, yet another self-hosted alternative to soon to be dead Google Reader. In a nutshell tinyRSS...
View ArticleShaarli Social Bookmarking
Today’s update is brought to you by an anonymous tipster who sent in a few new tools to put into my repository. Thank you, elusive friend! In a Nutshell Shaarli is a social bookmarking service,...
View ArticleOpenNote – a basic Evernote alternative
While basic in its current version, this sleak and easily deployable application could someday be a great alternative for Evernote aficionados In a Nutshell Evernote, with its millions of customers, is...
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Lychee image management (and sharing)
Lychee is yet another contender in the niche of self-hosted photo management and sharing applications. Thanks to Victor, who alerted me to its existence, here’s a short review of what it does, how it...
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Wallabag – Read stuff later
Sometimes the number of interesting texts to read can be overwhelming. To counter this problem, a whole little niche cropped up a few years back, the “read it later” niche. Most famous products to...
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Turtl, a very private Evernote alternative
Evernote is probably the most popular note-taking tool. For good reason: it’s been around for ages, works on almost all platforms (Linux being the one glaring exception) and it’s probably the most...
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GNU Social – Revisiting StatusNET
A few years ago I wrote about StatusNET, a self-hosted Twitter clone. Since then, a few things have changed. Twitter will probably be sold to whoever finally decides to risk it and StatusNET is now GNU...
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FreshRSS – reigniting the RSS love
It’s been a while since I wrote about a self-hosted RSS reader. Why? Mainly because it’s fallen out of use even with many of the more seasoned consumers out there. The reasons are manifold, not least...
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Nextcloud
A while ago I wrote about Owncloud, which started out as a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, but which by now has grown to be a whole suite of apps. In the meantime, things happened. Not necessarily...
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FileRun – Probably the slickest file-management software out there
It feels like only yesterday that I wrote about Nextcloud (it was actually a few weeks ago), and today I’m already writing about yet another self-hosted file storage solutions. It’s called FileRun, and...
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Polr – a fast and modern URL shortener
If you’ve been around the web for a while, you’re probably familiar with tools that allow you to shorten URLs. They are mainly used on platforms like Twitter, where character limits and readability...
View ArticleSHW01: Cloudron
Welcome to the first episode of the Self-hosted Web Podcast! In this inaugural episode I talk about the self-hosting platform Cloudron. I was also lucky enough to speak to Johannes Zellner, one of the...
View ArticleSHW02: Nextcloud
Welcome back to the second episode! This time I’m talking about the self-hosted cloud-storage solution Nextcloud, which, with its numerous extensions is the swiss-army knife of self-hosting solutions....
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Cloudron: A self-hosting platform
This is my review of Cloudron in written form, but if you’d rather hear about it, I recorded a podcast episode featuring Cloudron and one of its founders Johannes Zellner. I’ve written about quite a...
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