June 2001 Session in Menlo Park

Peer-to-Peer

Thirty-five people attended our June meeting, including Wayne Hodgins in San Raphael and Hal RIchman in Nova Scotia who joined in via Groove.

Here's the presentation in PDF.

I'm writing a description of the session and hope to have an asynchronous replay here soon. In the meantime, join us in Groove.

Background information on Peer-to-Peer

 


The best source of P2P information

Tim O'Reilly's P2P meme map



How to join eLearning Forum's Groove-space

Download and install Groove. (Caution: It's a 10 MB download.)
Open the "Forum Space.GRV" invitation file.
When the invitation window appears, click "Accept" .
Wait for your computer to receive the shared space. Delivery might take a while if my computer is offline when you accept. Watch the bottom of your screen for notification.
Click the shared space arrival notification to enter the space and start Grooving!
 We're keeping our demo space in Groove up for experiments. Drop by.
Gnutella is an Open Source P2P platform for file-sharing. Unlike Napster, to which it's compared, Gnutella has no central server. As they put it, Gnutella is lawyer-proof, because there's no one to sue. If you're technically inclined, you might want to check out the Gnutella Protocol Specifications.
Lots of people who once visited Napster are now logging in at LimeWire, a front-end and extension of Gnutella.

Weblogs

Jay keeps Blogs (AKA weblogs) on learning, time, visualization, and general interest items. Blog are a simple way to publish personal threads on the Web. Over time, you get to know the author by his or her Blog, and tacit information begins to flow. More about Blogs.

Freenet is so anonymous the FBI won't be able to track you down. This is bound to be a terrorist favorite.
 
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