p2p applications

Research on p2papps circa 2000/2001

Research of agent technology, open source model. Napster is commonlycited, 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 anotherbit on Jabber. It strikes me that this is a great way to handle remoteemployees being able to communicate real time with each other and thehome office without the security and productivity problems that comewith the publicly accessible IM options (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ).

Doug has installed jabber on Marge. You can access the mediasset labjabber server by setting marge.mediasset.com as your jabber server.

Jabber clients are available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and there areJava clients as well so you can really access it from any platform youwant.

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 fordeveloping p2p.

The rise and fall of Napster and the pending launch of similar filesharing services from the major record labels has taken the spotlightaway from the true usefulness of p2p. In a pure business context, itcan be used to reduce network traffic overhead (Intel uses it to sharepresentation, demos, and other media files between worldwide locations:Rather than go to the hassle (and expense) of everyone getting it froma central server, it propogates all over the company and employeessimply grab a copy from the closest resource) and ensure availabilityof files regardless of the health of any given server.