"wanna use our services for free, adfree? just install our software and lend us your power !"
Sortof mega google software suite. They already started it.
Read this :
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/11/technology/business2_futureboy_0511/
3D = need for processing power (-> compute grid?)
cpu/bw/hd = resource = $$$
This would be the giant/obfuscated/scalable/computing/storage grid of google. Some black box. In exchange you would be able, through your google account, to put and retrieve files from the distributed space (given by users). In fact, the best option would be dijjer-like mirroring. Sort of "google webaccelerator", but P2P.
Centralized google access would only be kept for time-critical-services (such as search request), which haven't been chached yet. Add to this a distributed statistics information retrieval, and you'll get a good picture ... As for private coms, google doesn't seem to really be interested in that (only commercial-valuable info), cf. Gtalk operture. Why such a jabber-like proto? Because they'll eventually be able to decentralize it.
2006/10/17, Peter Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I enjoyed all of your comments.
However, I feel that all are missing the big issue: control of
data/resources and manipulation.
Centralized services (like google), even at internet scale, may be able
to offer better *technical* properties over P2P solutions. But why
should we (and can we) trust a single entity (organization/company/...)
with the world's data?
P2P technologies are thus the only available solution (at least for all
who dont like big brothers)...
In this context, the real question then is NOT how to make a P2P
solution better than its centralized counterpart; but how to make it
fast enough, reliable enough, available enough and affordable enough so
that people will use it.
This is IMHO begets the biggest set of challenges researchers face.
Peter
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Peter Triantafillou, Professor
Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics
Director, Network Centric Information Systems (NetCINs) Lab
University of Patras, Rio, 26500, Greece
http://netcins.ceid.upatras.gr
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Davide "dada" Carboni wrote:
> [...]
>
>> better than you know yourself. Once that database leaks, or got seized
>> by the police, your privacy is seriously violated, and worse thing is
>> that nothing you can do about it. P2P behaves much better in this
>> situation, as your activity (search) were distributed among all other
>> peers, and they won't be interested in keeping your (log) information at
>> all. It's also hard for the police to track down your activity on the
>> net; they'd have to look at other peers' computers as well, and those
>> peers will definitely not give in easily.
>>
>> In summary, my big question is, will there really be a bright future
>> for P2P ?
>
> You partially answered your own question. The web2.0 -
> web_as_a_platform - mashup ecosystems are deeply moving in the
> direction opposite to p2p. The trend is centralize globally in few
> application providers both data and services.
> Google Maps is a excellent example of mobile code that application
> developers embed in their own application giving google the
> possibility to track web user even outside the google.com domain.
> The only technology that IMHO can protect privacy and enforce
> anonymity is P2P and I hope the smartest researchers around the world
> invest their time on that.
>
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