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Could the Internet run out of space? - CNN.com
"But what if the Internet was to run out of space? This isn't just a theoretical debate, but something experts warn could become a real issue within a few years. Now, one business school professor studying the issue believes he may have come up with a sol
How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
It’s clear that Twitter’s infrastructure and systems architecture is insufficient to handle current and future levels of demand. The issue is one of scalability and performance at the transaction level. At any given time, millions of rows of data are bein
AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK - pdf
BUILDING IDENTITY AND TRUST INTO THE NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET , A REPORT FOR THE LINK TANK - Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, Steven Foster /// The four main elements of the ASN are: persistent online identity; interoperability between communities; brokered relati
PeerSoN - Peer-to-Peer Social Networking
Our project consists of several parts. One part is to build a peer-to-peer infrastructure that supports the most important features of online social networks in a distributed way. We have written a first prototype to test our ideas. Another part is concer
Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast? - NYTimes.com
"That staggering growth rate — doubling in size in just eight months — suggests Facebook is rapidly becoming the Web’s dominant social ecosystem and an essential personal and business networking tool in much of the wired world."
Geospatial Revolution Project | A Public Service Media Project
We live in the Global Location Age. “Where am I?” is being replaced by, “Where am I in relation to everything else?” Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public service media and outreach initiative
P3P, the new Holy Grail of online content? | Citilab
P3P is a protocol which permits websites to declare the use of information which they collect about the users who visit them, and is designed to give users more control about personal information when using the Internet. P3P was developed by the World Wid
Watching YouTube » Is YouTube Following Napster’s Downfall?
There has been much speculation that YouTube is going to ‘Napsterize’ itself by too aggressively applying DMCA requests at the expense of fair use. One such analysis recently appeared in MIT’s YouTomb blog:
Evolving from currency designs towards currency platforms
what's the difference between lets, time dollars on the one hand, and open money on the others? very good explanation and intro
Watching YouTube » Analyzing Video Services in Web 2.0: A Global Perspective.
Serving multimedia content over the Internet with negligible delay remains a challenge. With the advent of Web 2.0, numerous video sharing sites using different storage and content delivery models have become popular. Yet, little is known about these mode
Strategic Insight
Strategic Insight will help organizations that are committed to positive social change to develop their natural ecosystem! What is an ecosystem? ‘A complex set of relationships of living organisms functioning as a unit and interacting with their physical
Open System Mobilization Platform
How the Principles of Real Time Interaction, Visibility, Openness and Self-Organization Can Serve as the Foundation for a Technology Platform that can be Utilized to Solve Large Scale Global Problems
riseup.net
This site is powered by Crabgrass, a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. The long term goal is to provide the technical tools to facilitate active, confederal,
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets is a new book that addresses innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) and how it fuels the growth of the global economy. Authors Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson analyze
Localhost
Localhost is a program that lets you access a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser. This file system is maintained in a fully decentralized way by all of the computers running Localhost. The program uses BitTorrent technology, and P2P D
OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P
OneSwarm is a new P2P data sharing application we’re building to provide users with explicit control over their privacy by enabling fine-grained control over how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be ma
LIFT09: Vint Cerf on InterPlaNetary Internet (IPN) « iRevolution
to define the architecture and protocols necessary to permit interoperation of the Internet resident on Earth with other remotely located internets resident on other planets or spacecraft in transit
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