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From the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 22:54 P2P Technology syndicated blogsIf you read only one article about the future of the web, what exactly Web 3.0 might become, go no further than this brilliant overview by Nova Spivack here, entitled: The Future of the Desktop.
In his own blog, he gives a brilliant summarizing of what it is all about.
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Exploring Resilient Communities with John Robb (2): the infrastructure
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 20:13 P2P Technology syndicated blogsResilience comes in two main parts: food production andindustry, supported by two underlying infrastructural elements: smart local information networks and local money systems.
1. Agricultural and food resilience
As the first solution for farming, John Robb proposes subscription farming:
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Abolition of net neutrality not needed for internet video
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 01:30 P2P Technology syndicated blogsImportant technical essay by Andrew Odlyzko, which explains why Net Neutrality needs not be abolished to enable widespread video distribution on the internet.
Excerpt from the introduction:
“”Even if we allow video the dominant role in shaping the future of the Internet, we have to cope with the second delusion captured in Cicconi’s quote, namely that movies should be streamed. This is an extremely widely shared assumption, even among networking researchers, as is discussed in Section 4. However, there is an argument that except for a very small fraction of traffic (primarily phone calls and videoconferencing), multimedia should be delivered as faster-than-real-time progressive downloads (transfer of segments of files, each segment sent faster-than-real-time, with potential pauses between segments). That is what is used by many P2P services, as well as YouTube. This approach leads to far simpler and less expensive networks than real-time streaming. And there is a noticeable minority of the technical community that regards this approach as the only sensible one. A truly astonishing phenomenon is that this group and the far larger streaming advocacy group do not seem to talk to each other, or even be aware that the other alternative is to be taken seriously. This is discussed in Section 3.
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Mobile VoIP making serious inroads
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 21:42 P2P Technology syndicated blogsIt was predicted years ago, but it took some time to materialize, but Business Week is confirming that the trend of nearly free international telephony is becoming real.
Excerpt:
“Gorilla, iCall, and a growing number of other services rely on what’s known as Voice over Internet Protocol technology that delivers speech via the Internet in much the same way as e-mail. VoIP calling is already raising a ruckus in telecommunications, putting pressure on the price of land-line calling and luring subscribers toward upstarts like Vonage (VG) and Comcast (CMCSA) away from incumbents such as AT&T, and Verizon (VZ). Now, the technology threatens to erode sales for mobile-phone service providers too.
Phone + Twitter = Phweet
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 22:48 P2P Technology syndicated blogs A Phweet is a shortURL that makes conversations and conference calls possible between Twitter friends and across other social networks. Let your friends know you are talking. Invite them to join in. No numbers, no new profiles.
I usually try to refrain to write on technical topics, because I do not feel I have enough expertise, but after a little experiment with Stuart Henshall’s Phweet, I’m hooked.
We need customer-owned internet infrastructure
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 21:56 P2P Technology syndicated blogsVia Bill St. Arnaud:
“Around the world there is growing alarm at attempts by carriers, ostensibly for traffic management reasons, to install deep packet inspection equipment, but now being used for local web ad insertion and other activities. Network neutrality is increasingly also an issue about network privacy. As such various organizations like the prestigious Max Planck institute and others are developing tools so that consumers can discover whether their carrier is doing deep packet inspection and hopefully thwart these serious potential threats to consumer privacy. To my mind this issue will never disappear because the fundamental issue is the current business model of limited competition and a presupposition that the carrier “owns” the last mile and is therefore free to do what they wish with “their” network. I have long argued that to free ourselves of these threats to Internet privacy and freedom we need a new business model where the consumer “owns” the last mile and free to connect to any service provider they wish at neighbourhood carrier neutral interconnect facility. Next generation Fiber to the Home architectures like CityNet and Burlington Vermont enable this type of capability.”
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5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 21:50 P2P Technology syndicated blogsVia the Free Software Foundation.
“The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G:
* iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones.
* iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology.
Snapping and sharing with the comm.unity p2p telephony platform
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 02:51 P2P Technology syndicated blogsImagine going on a trip and creating an ad-hoc group with the people you happen to be traveling with. Any picture anyone takes could be immediately distributed to all of the group’s devices.
Thus starts the description of Nadav Aharony’s comm.unity project.
Here is commentary by Worldchanging:
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How’s FON doing? A status report.
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 07:34 P2P Technology syndicated blogsUpdate on the project for a global peer to peer wireless infrastructure in the New York Times:
Excerpt from the 3-page recommended reportage:
“At the moment, there are just 830,000 registered Foneros around the world, and only 340,000 active Wi-Fi hotspots run FON software. Because it’s built upon the concept of sharing Wi-Fi access, FON works well only if there are Foneros everywhere.
Objects with consciousness are necessary to the survival of our planet
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 21:31 P2P Technology syndicated blogsOne of the great insights of science fiction author Bruce Sterling, is how intelligent objects, i.e. that know and can telll you where they come from, are necessary to create a world of zero waste. Before presenting that argument, a recap of the vocabulary of the P2P-Objects, and a summary history of their evolution.
This entry is inspired by a great speech by Bruce Sterling, recently rediscovered.
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