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3G Swarm

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 at 4:31 pm

Reading Onion Networks’ announcement on swarmstreaming reminded my of a post I wrote a couple of years ago about the paradigm shift that was introduced with the mainstream adoption of decentralization technologies like p2p and swarming clients.
We are now seeing the third-generation of swarming algorithms coming into the public realm with the introduction of [...]

The Birth of a Decentralized Internet

Wednesday, May 8th, 2002 at 2:04 pm

I was reading a story on Slashdot recently concerning the initial results of their move towards a subscription-based model when it suddenly dawned on me just how revolutionary concepts like P2P and distributed-computing models like Gnutella or Freenet actually are in light of this economic problem. The reason for moving towards a subscription model for [...]