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Tim O'Reilly Points Toward Next 'Killer App'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-can-it-make-coffee dept.

santos_douglas writes "Extreme Tech has this article in which Tim O'Reilly, the man behind every geeks favorite tech manuals, points toward four major leading indicators that will predict the next likely 'killer app' to emerge from the hacker community. They are: (1) Amazon.com web services (2) BARWN (3) Hardware hackers and (4) online gaming communities."

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  1. its blatantly gonna be some ultimate by noogle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    gnutella-style non-centralized encrypted file-sharing thing with full irc-style-chat and superduper intelligent dynamic node management type stuff to regulate the network.

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  2. Distributed P2P Services... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...Like BitTorrent.

    It's a bit difficult to think of distributed services being for anyone other than uber-geeks and people who desperately need processing power. We've been doing distributed number crunching for a few years now, so it's only a matter of time before distributed services take hold. Distributed downloading, which was started by the various P2P apps and has been almost perfected by BitTorrent is the next iteration of that. Imagine what the next iteration of this tech will bring. Imagine hosting your entire website off of your own computer, but as part of a 'distributed' web with a browser Torrent plugin to make bandwidth seem thicker and easier to come by.

    Other distributed services are just around the corner.

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  3. hardware hacking by foog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    case modding is about as much hardware hacking as putting a giant tail on your honda civic is hot rodding.

    I'll just say the current generation of microcontrollers is a dream to work with, and programmable logic is really hot right now too...

    foog (who has been up all night with an Atmel AVR, and the blinkenlights are flashing and the solenoid valves are clacking and everything's worked as designed so far, just with the usual minor hitches...)