BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. In reference to the last posting, Julian mentioned that perhaps Kazaa and it’s supernodes have more of an aluminum core because the cloud that supports the Kazaa P2P network is still mallable — the Supernodes that provide the cloud services are fluid and can change as well as go offline with […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A true P2P cloud does not have a core of iron. By this I mean that there can be no static IP or server providing the gateway or facilitating the communication between nodes within a distributed application. You can argue this one with me for years and you won’t convince […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave mentioned today that he’ll be giving a presentation at the Emerging Technologies Conference. My conference proposal was rejected, which was disappointing — particularly since the session I gave at the first P2P conference was successful. Such is life. So if you’re going to the conference you can see Dave, but you’ll miss […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I return from vacation land, I’m going to build a true P2P cloud for Radio. I’ve been wanting to test some functionality and needed a good user-interface vehicle. Looks like Radio is a good fit. I need a golden gateway, but I imagine Userland would provide the server space […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If the Net is good for one thing, it’s the propagation of buzzwords and acronyms. In the case of P2P – Peer-to-Peer – you have a term that is both buzzword and acronym, and represents a group of technologies that is both very old (in Net terms) and very new. […]