On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:39 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > > On Jul 19, 4:27 am, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 19, 12:49 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > Another killer app I would like to see it this: > > > A p2p news app. > > > Imagine installing web2py and an app that allows you to select > > > keywords of interest. the app connect to other apps of the same tipe > > > via xmlrpc fetches recent news items that match your interests and > > > serves them locally. You can block individual news and/or post more > > > news. Visitors can comment and vote. Comments stay local but upvotes/ > > > downvotes affect propagation of the news. The layout could be > > > customizable. > > > I am very concerned about governments censoring information. This > > > system would create a worldwide news network without a central point > > > of failure. A particular item propagates as long as the readers find > > > it interesting. > > > > Isn't this basically what social networks do already? > > No. Think of twitter. There is a server somewhere at twitter.com that > handles the twits. It is centralized. It worked in the case of Iranian > elections because it happens that that server is not in Iran. > > I am talking a real p2p network for news. To my knwoledge there is no > such a thing. ...more to the point - to forward commits / changes in the LACK of a network... Think about cell phones only passing a baton, where that cloud provides persistence... This is consistent w/ some WHO efforts also for forwarding blood tests thru SMS and results back "in the bush".... In general, this is insteresting beyond the application Massimo set out. > > > Massimo > > I see this very clearly with the current news on the Iranian post- > > election fallout: > > * News items pop up in all sorts of places (Traditional Broadcasters/ > > Blogs/Facebook/Twitter) > > * These get forwarded through all these diverse media again > > (including being shared in Google Reader) > > > > I rather like this heterogeneous system as it provides for diverse > > routing. > > > > The main issue with censorship here is the Nokia-Siemens DPI which > > needs to be avoided using tools like ToR or Haystack. > > > > To get the p2p app to work effectively, many people would need to take > > it up. > > Again, the diverse interlinked routes we have already seem like less > > of an uphill struggle... > > > > F > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
