A decentralized architecture for consolidating personal information ecosystems: The WebBox

A research paper by Max Van Kleek, Daniel A. Smith, Nigel R. Shadbolt and M. C. Schraefel on the problems and frustrations of using disparate systems for managing personal data. A new web-standards based architecture for consolidating personal information systems called the WebBox is proposed.

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/273200/1/webbox-pim.pdf