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a lot of buzz around Data Portability those days but I'm afraid that it will result in no-ending discussions with nothing concrete in a near future. I hope I'm wrong and I totally respect all those peoples way smarter than me which represent Big Actors of our actual Giant Global Graph. Besides that, my main priority is not data portability but data ownership, once we've got the power data we'll see how to share this with other applications and how to deal with privacy.

"Standard Notes A standard notes app with an un-standard focus on longevity, portability, and privacy."

MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web.

Soft2Base is a free portable Application Manager for Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32/64 bits). Based on its auto-updated catalog of free softwares, it will highlights outdated or missing applications and propose to download and install them in a single step. Use it to add efficient tools to your new Windows setups but also to upgrade already installed applications.

"PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia) and FireFox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy and Ireland impose onto their citizens."

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.

Surf Canyon develops "real-time personalized search," a technology that disambiguates the user's intent post-query, and, in real time, brings forward to page one the relevant results that might otherwise remain buried. By transforming static lists of links into dynamic search pages that automatically re-rank results on the fly, users are able to more quickly and easily find pertinent information buried among the irrelevant results, significantly accelerating the search process. This patent-pending technology, available at our search site or as a browser add-on for portability to the major search engines, is also known as Discovery for Search ™.

Cognition is an Application Framework based on Python which is used to create local/network hosted web applications. It is built to be portable, and uses standard python libraries so that its platform independent as well (or at least aims to be). The idea is to centralize elements of the framework to provide ease of use with a robust set of tools.

PirateBox.de creates offline wireless networks designed for anonymous file sharing, chatting, message boarding, and media streaming. You can think of it as your very own portable offline Internet in a box!