Remind me what's new here - We've been seeing this in Grouper (http://www.grouper.com), iMeem (http://www.imeem.com) and Krawler (http://www.krawlerx.com - shameless plug, it uses RSS and bit-torrent for file transfers as well). Same old Media sharing. Same old Social Networking. Same old File Transfer.
Two things - (1) That p2p Networks are fringe activities, and 99% of the web users will use youtube.com to share videos is a fact these p2p networks have to realise. (2) There can not be a viable business model for p2p based file-sharing networks which doesn't rely on some sort of Adware or (minor) spyware. Since the volumes can never justify the ad-spend by advertisers, the advertisers will increasingly push for personal information of the users - which, considering the technologies involved, is not very hard to get from the back door.
I salute the PR team of this company on having managed to get their crap of a product on slashdot.
In 20 yrs, Software will build Software. Humans will longer be required to code, test, and deploy. We will have software build software - and humans will just input the specs. No c#, no Java, no dev platforms, no operating system issues.
Believe me, its only a question of few years. Writing code will be as extinct as punching cards.
Movies, Music, games - other kinds of totally different softwares. Movies
are non-interactive, yet, are as complex as a piece of software. If you can
engage your user with the software, you job is done. Id say a writing a piece
of software that people would like is an Art form - not science. Much like movie
making. No school can teach you that. Case in point - Steve Jobs. Point made.
In other news - who's the David Thomas the articles refers to.
Wikipedia has nothing on
him. David Platt - the author of this oh-so-obvious-whory article is not a known
personality either.
On its own merits, the article shouldn't be finding a mention anywhere. Least
on slashdot. That slashdot has to compete with digg for first posts is another
issue altogether.
I read that issue of Wired which stated Jesus didn't exist, because the Bible crowdsourced their podcast to the blogosphere via Ruby on Rails to Ezekiel 2.0.
Oh & yes, before you get into the scam - you should
know that "Jeff
was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his
story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again."
The news helped push shares of Apple up nearly 5 percent today to $84.84.
Consider Apple's market cap being 70BN - that's a neat 3.5 BN in leap.
For those who won't RTFA or Google into the matter - Another piece of news says
Apple acknowledges fake documents. From the article: "In the filings,
Apple (Cupertino, Calif.) acknowledged that
the company faked documentation to indicate that a grant of 7.5 million options
to CEO Steve Jobs was recorded at a special meeting of the board of directors on
Oct. 19, 2001"
If faking doesn't tantamount to fraud - then what does ? And if the CEO is not
responsible for this - what I call as defraud - then who is ? Sure this is no Enron, but when it comes to corporate governance there's nothing like a small fraud.
If users start to think that Google is manipulating those results for their own gain, then they will stop trusting the results and start looking at other search engines
Other Search Engines don't exist. Face it, Google is by and far the only option. A search monopoly would be a stretch - but it'll be there very soon. And talking about current options - I wouldn't dare touch MSN or Yahoo, who are far worse. And Far more Evil.
So until there's another 'google of 1999' on the horizon, grin and bear. Google offers the best search and the 'least' evil-ness.
I have a RAZR, and I can tell you it has one of the worse UI experiences built-in. Any operation takes atleast 5-6 clicks. Operating your Address book is not intuitive - and saving a picture you just clicked sucks you dry(if you click a picture, you got to tell the damn thing to save it & name it, it wont save it otherwise). Though Nokias are much better off.
This is precisely I'm looking forward to an Apple phone. Two Letters - UI.
Brad - the writer of this memo - was rumoured to leave Yahoo for Myspace. He's supposed to be a disgruntled man for a long time - and this memo could be one of those angy outbursts. Not that what he wrote is not right, but for sure there's more to it than just plain loyalty thing.
vVoilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for...
In short, I for one welcome our V named BTN beating guy-fawkes-mask-wearing overlords...
It lets users author and share original courses, books, even novels -- over the p2p networks. Think wikibooks + authoring tool + p2p. The authoring tool itself is mega-amazing -- one can tailor individual access rules/content access workflow for individual users -- like noone should see this page beyond this date or whatever...screenshots: http://krawler.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/krawlerx-p roduct-screenshots/
Remember -- calling anything commericial does not make it auto-popular -- its the people who make stuff popular. I think the correct title should be "popular p2p apps.." -- rather than "commercial whatever..."
Interestingly, the article does not mention that the so-called submarine is infact a Remote Operated Vehicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROV). A ROV, technically, can be termed as a submarine though from TFA it appears that author chooses to call this ROV a "sub" to generate some interest.
And the so-called Giant Octopus weighed about 45 kgs. Hardly Giant.
FTFA: "In a letter to Seigenthaler, Chase said he thought that Wikipedia was a "gag" Web site and that he had written the assassination tale to shock a co-worker"
So much so about the crediblity of wikipedia...
On second thoughts, wouldn't wikipedia do well with a moderation system ?
Slashdot Mirror
Remind me what's new here - We've been seeing this in Grouper (http://www.grouper.com), iMeem (http://www.imeem.com) and Krawler (http://www.krawlerx.com - shameless plug, it uses RSS and bit-torrent for file transfers as well). Same old Media sharing. Same old Social Networking. Same old File Transfer.
Two things -
(1) That p2p Networks are fringe activities, and 99% of the web users will use youtube.com to share videos is a fact these p2p networks have to realise.
(2) There can not be a viable business model for p2p based file-sharing networks which doesn't rely on some sort of Adware or (minor) spyware. Since the volumes can never justify the ad-spend by advertisers, the advertisers will increasingly push for personal information of the users - which, considering the technologies involved, is not very hard to get from the back door.
I salute the PR team of this company on having managed to get their crap of a product on slashdot.
In 20 yrs, Software will build Software. Humans will longer be required to code, test, and deploy. We will have software build software - and humans will just input the specs. No c#, no Java, no dev platforms, no operating system issues.
Believe me, its only a question of few years. Writing code will be as extinct as punching cards.
In other news - who's the David Thomas the articles refers to. Wikipedia has nothing on him. David Platt - the author of this oh-so-obvious-whory article is not a known personality either.
On its own merits, the article shouldn't be finding a mention anywhere. Least on slashdot. That slashdot has to compete with digg for first posts is another issue altogether.
I read that issue of Wired which stated Jesus didn't exist, because the Bible crowdsourced their podcast to the blogosphere via Ruby on Rails to Ezekiel 2.0.
Oh & yes, before you get into the scam - you should know that "Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again."
For those who won't RTFA or Google into the matter - Another piece of news says Apple acknowledges fake documents. From the article: "In the filings, Apple (Cupertino, Calif.) acknowledged that the company faked documentation to indicate that a grant of 7.5 million options to CEO Steve Jobs was recorded at a special meeting of the board of directors on Oct. 19, 2001"
If faking doesn't tantamount to fraud - then what does ? And if the CEO is not responsible for this - what I call as defraud - then who is ? Sure this is no Enron, but when it comes to corporate governance there's nothing like a small fraud.
for inches and centimetres, let fools contend...
So until there's another 'google of 1999' on the horizon, grin and bear. Google offers the best search and the 'least' evil-ness.
This is not the last we've seen from Google.
Is it me or the chick who wrote the article looks real hot ? Refer http://www.forbes.com/fdc/bios/new/rachelrosmarin. html
I have a RAZR, and I can tell you it has one of the worse UI experiences built-in. Any operation takes atleast 5-6 clicks. Operating your Address book is not intuitive - and saving a picture you just clicked sucks you dry(if you click a picture, you got to tell the damn thing to save it & name it, it wont save it otherwise). Though Nokias are much better off. This is precisely I'm looking forward to an Apple phone. Two Letters - UI.
Democracy off. Chaos On.
Unless the delayed game is Duke Nukem Forever.
Vista - as almost every stewie loving brian beating kid would know - IS Windows ME 2.
Brad - the writer of this memo - was rumoured to leave Yahoo for Myspace. He's supposed to be a disgruntled man for a long time - and this memo could be one of those angy outbursts. Not that what he wrote is not right, but for sure there's more to it than just plain loyalty thing.
l inghouse-will-defect-to-myspace-157314.php or Google on this guy.
Read http://www.valleywag.com/tech/top/yahoos-brad-gar
They might be cunning linguists - but you sure are a master debator.
Yes, I was referring to you in my GP post.
I've heard of people who met actual jotspot users. No kidding.
vVoilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for...
In short, I for one welcome our V named BTN beating guy-fawkes-mask-wearing overlords...
err wait...
The content itself is the incentive -- what incentive do wikipedia authors have, to create and edit those million articles on a daily basis ?
p roduct-screenshots/
You should checkout Krawler[x] - http://www.krawlerx.com/download.htm (windows build)
It lets users author and share original courses, books, even novels -- over the p2p networks. Think wikibooks + authoring tool + p2p. The authoring tool itself is mega-amazing -- one can tailor individual access rules/content access workflow for individual users -- like noone should see this page beyond this date or whatever...screenshots: http://krawler.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/krawlerx-
Remember -- calling anything commericial does not make it auto-popular -- its the people who make stuff popular. I think the correct title should be "popular p2p apps.." -- rather than "commercial whatever..."
MessageLabs' study is limited to their customers -- corporate mailservers that run MessageLabs' spam and virus filtering solutions.
/sarcasm
So much hulla-boo when the study itself is not credible.
90% of the statistic is made up. Or in the MessageLabs' case -- made up of 10% of the information.
Freenet: http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=faq# what
More people use it, more helpful it could be.
Interestingly, the article does not mention that the so-called submarine is infact a Remote Operated Vehicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROV). A ROV, technically, can be termed as a submarine though from TFA it appears that author chooses to call this ROV a "sub" to generate some interest.
And the so-called Giant Octopus weighed about 45 kgs. Hardly Giant.
Anyway.
One Person's Spyware is another person's Adware
Barbossa : ."..the
Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome aboard
the Black Pearl, Miss Turner."
FTFA: "In a letter to Seigenthaler, Chase said he thought that Wikipedia was a "gag" Web site and that he had written the assassination tale to shock a co-worker"
So much so about the crediblity of wikipedia...
On second thoughts, wouldn't wikipedia do well with a moderation system ?