p2p applications
version: 1.0date: 2000-11-11 16:06:15
Research on p2p apps circa 2000/2001
Research of agent technology, open source model. Napster is commonly cited, but is not a strict p2p model.
gnutella, OpenNap, AudioGalaxy, Hotline, Flycode, WebPager, Jabber, Infobot, Red Rover, freenet, peekabooty, etc are all current focus.
I went to the Colorado Linux InfoQuest 2000 last week and wrote another bit on Jabber. It strikes me that this is a great way to handle remote employees being able to communicate real time with each other and the home office without the security and productivity problems that come with the publicly accessible IM options (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ).
Doug has installed jabber on Marge. You can access the mediasset lab jabber server by setting marge.mediasset.com as your jabber server.
Jabber clients are available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and there are Java clients as well so you can really access it from any platform you want.
2.15.2001. Also looking at Espra and Alpine.
The O'Reilly P2P conference is happening right now.
2.16.2001. Sun is developing a software platform for developing p2p.
The rise and fall of Napster and the pending launch of similar file sharing services from the major record labels has taken the spotlight away from the true usefulness of p2p. In a pure business context, it can be used to reduce network traffic overhead (Intel uses it to share presentation, demos, and other media files between worldwide locations: Rather than go to the hassle (and expense) of everyone getting it from a central server, it propogates all over the company and employees simply grab a copy from the closest resource) and ensure availability of files regardless of the health of any given server.
