On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16 Feb 2009, at 02:01, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> >> On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, I wrote: >> >>> I'm interested in using CouchDB in a peer-to-peer fashion to propagate >>> content between nodes that don't necessarily trust each other. >> >> FYI, I just finished writing a breathless blog post on this topic, >> including an enthusiastic endorsement of CouchDB: >> http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/what-will-web-30-be/ >> >> In a nutshell: My hope is that "Web 3.0" (which I agree is a silly term >> and an over-generalization) will center around the decentralization of Web >> applications. Web 2.0 distributed content production out to the end users, >> but the servers hosting the data and the apps are still monolithic and >> proprietary. I've been hoping for a long time that things can evolve in a >> more distributed (if not truly peer-to-peer) direction, and CouchDB really >> seems like a big step toward there. > > Thanks Jens, that's a very good read and it nicely summarizes > what we strive for.
I'm just now reading it, and I concur. +1 on calling CouchDB a "higher level abstraction". Glad to have you here! Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
