I must be getting old, because I’d not really adequately considered how a photo iPod would be used in the intense social milieu of high school and college students. Anyway, its bascially anecdota, but its an interesting.
RatcliffeBlog—Mitch’s Open Notebook: iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!
Hamachi allows you to establish secure direct connections to computers that are not accessible otherwise due to the restrictions in network setup.
I just stumbled across another P2P app that facilitates personal filesharing across the Internet without lots of firewall traversal hassles called Hamachi. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m interested in learning more.
I tried Grouper and dropped it because of it panders to the RIAA by streaming audio files at a low quality, rather than just treating them like any other file.
Then I tried Foldershare to make some files available between my home and work machines, and also to share various files with my brother in Utah. I like FolderShare’s simplicity, and that it works well for individual scenarios (like the way I used it to make a few files available at both home and work), and for group sharing and collaboration (like the way I’m sharing some files with my brother).
Groove supports similar functionality in their products. It will be interesting to see if Skype uses the P2P infastructure of Skype to enable other communications applications like this in addition to their IM and Voice features.
Kenosis is a “fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XML-RPC.” Their first app is a decentralized BitTorrent. Permanent link to this item in the archive.
Very cool! It’ll be interesting to see how it works, but I like the idea, the architecture sounds good (to me, based on a quick read, and what do I know anyway), and I applaud their choice for the demo application.
Last week, I took Dave Winer to task for suggesting that RF spectrum didn’t matter in a world of things like iPodder helped people route around the traditional broadcast media. Such a view was, I thought, shortsighted, because without open spectrum and cheap transparent internet access, innovative new applications like iPodder are dead on arrival. Without it, the big companies who control DSL and Cable net access are likely to seek to restrict our choices, both for how we access the net, and what we do with it.
To highlight that fact, I want to call your attention to this appeal from the independent ISP I buy net access from.
The River Report: January 2005
Almost 30 million people connect to the Internet through an independent Internet Service Provider (ISP). An Independent ISP is any business (such as The River) outside the largest providers such as AOL, MSN, Cox and Qwest. We need you to take action to preserve your ability to choose how you connect to the Internet.
The time to act is now, whether or not you use an independent ISP, whether or not you have DSL or cable net access, this matters to you. The remaining baby bells are trying to garner FCC support for limiting choice in most markets in the US, this will decrease competition, which will almost certainly lead to increased prices and/or decreased quality of service. It’s also a step closer to giving to putting these big companies in a position to control what you can use the net for by blocking or otherwise degrading your ability to use third party communications tools and services, like instant messenger based video and audio conferencing, and cheap feature rich net telephony services like Skype and Vonage. And don’t even think about multi-player Halo2 without kicking in an extra $20 month for their “gamers package.”
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Dave tells Doc Searls to “forget about spectrum” saying that its “such a 20th Centurey concept, that in the age of podcasting, spectrum is infinite and costs $35 a year from Network Solutions.”
Dave seems to be forgetting that transit for those podcasts, especially the last mile, isn’t necessarily a sure thing. Companies are jockying for control of the internet infrastructure, and they aren’t all believers in transparent networks. Some of them want to set rates depending on the value of the payload, rather than just its size, just as the railroads set different rates for iron ore vs finished goods.
The mobile phone companies already do it. The rates they charge for SMS is much higher per bit than they charge for voice, and they are already working to control the endpoints by making it difficult to access any content or applications that they don’t get a kickback on.
More open spectrum makes it practical for people to continue to route around such damaged pieces of the Internet infrastructure and can only help insure vital grassroots movements like Podcasting.
Allocating more open spectrum, and encouraging technologies and policies that treat spectrum use as something other than a zero-sum game should be paid attention to, and can only help us get away from bottlenecks on expression.
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