You know a meme’s time has come when it starts appearing independently across multiple points in the industry. Such is the case with personal clouds. Just last week, while attending a Respect Network planning meeting at Kynetx in Utah, Jeff Kramer published a blog post entitled The Personal Cloud Computer which shares his vision for personal clouds — and he’d never heard of the Respect Network or read our paper on personal clouds.

Meanwhile Trendwatching.com has this article about “datamyning”, a new term to describe “data back to the people” that might just catch on (in the UK it goes by the name midata and in France it’s mes infos, but a meme by any other name is still a meme).