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O'Reilly Network: Peer-to-Peer
A directory of companies, initiatives, and projects in the P2P space.
O'Reilly Network: Peer-to-Peer DevCenter
Information on peer-to-peer technology from O'Reilly.
Project Jxta
An open-source project, started at Sun Microsystems, "to explore new styles of distributed computing."
Reports and Weblogs From the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference
Live reports from O'Reilly's Peer-to-Peer Conference 2001, and links to articles by conference speakers.
ARTICLES
Backlash!
Two articles appeared on the same day criticizing the P2P movement; a Wall Street Journal article said there's no money in it, and a Slashdot article said there's no coherence to the field. Both miss the main idea of peer-to-peer: that it's an idea. (4/5/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
Battle Brews Over Authentication
Sun and 32 other companies, joining forces as the "Liberty Alliance Project," plans to deploy a user authentication service to rival Microsoft's Passport system. (9/26/2001 at InternetNews.com)
Create RSS Channels From HTML News Sites
Using Perl and XML to create RSS (Remote Site Summary) feeds describing news content on other websites. (11/15/2001 at Perl.com)
Data Exchange With XML, WDDX and PHP
How to get your PHP code talking with legacy code on other systems, using WDDX. (9/13/2001 at DevShed)
Everywhere Network
UC Berkeley computer scientists are working on OceanStore, a networking/data storage scheme in which computer data will exist in multiple places throughout a worldwide computer network, kept safe by strong encryption. (12/27/2000 at Forbes)
File-Sharing Programs Carry Trojan Horse
Grokster and Limewire, two popular file-sharing programs, apparently come bundled with "spyware" provided by third-party advertisers. (1/2/2002 at News.com)
Freedom and Music for All: Post-Napster Services Heed Principles of Internet, Freenet Creator Says
Ian Clarke's Freenet enforces encrypted, anonymous distribution of all kinds of files; he hopes this will torpedo the concept of intellectual property, but worries about the distribution of bad content - child pornography, stolen credit card numbers, etc. (3/15/2001 at Dallas Morning News)
From EDI To XML and UDDI: A Brief History of Web Services
A look at the history of "web services", up through the adoption of SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. (9/27/2001 at Information Week)
Getting Your Feet Wet With SOAP
A beginner's guide to SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol, designed to enable simple messaging between web applications. (2/25/2002 at WebMonkey)
Giants Forging Web Services Consortium
Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel are starting an inudstry consortium, the Web Services Interoperability Organization, to educate businesses on building standards-based web services; they will focus on use of XML, SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. (2/5/2002 at News.com)
The Gnutella Paradox
Gnutella, the open-source alternative to Napster, may fail for several reasons: it doesn't scale well; its developers may get sued by the RIAA; and not many Gnutella users share files. (9/29/2000 at Salon.com)
Grid Project to Wed Web Services
At a conference in Toronto, computer scientists presented a plan for using grid computing - which links computers across the world to provide more power to local users - to enhance web services. (2/19/2002 at The New York Times)
Hailstorm: Open Web Services Controlled by Microsoft
A thorough dissection of Hailstorm, examining how it is both more and less centralized than past computing paradigms, and the advantages and disadvantages of the system. (5/30/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
Java and Web Services, Part I
An explanation of web services, as implemented with WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP (and, of course, Java). (8/7/2001 at ONJava.com)
JXTA Chat, Sans Server
Using JXTA to build a chat service that can be centralized, brokered, or decentralized. (6/5/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
Making An RSS Feed
A simple guide to creating RSS feeds from your content. (4/2/2003 at Search Engine Watch)
Metering and Accounting for Web Services
A model for pricing commercial web services automatically, based on type and amount of data served to a customer. (7/17/2001 at IBM)
A More Sensitive Mail Notifier
Modifying a Perl program that sends mail notifications to Jabber users, so that it acts appropriately if the user is not logged in or is "away". (4/13/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
The Multi-Feed RSS Sidebar Tab
How to set up a Netscape 6 sidebar using multiple RSS feeds. (5/17/2002 at WebReference.com)
The Next Big Thing?
Few peer-to-peer companies are making money; other companies - CD-ROM manufacturers, ISPs - are making money by supplying the tools to use peer-to-peer technology. (4/20/2001 at ABCNEWS.com)
OpenCola: Swarming Folders
An explanation of Folders and Swarmcast, two open-source technologies from OpenCola that make content management and retrieval easier. (5/24/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
Peer to Peer was Here
A recap of the O'Reilly P2P Conference. (2/20/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems: Caught Between EMI and Echelon
A look at how peer-to-peer technologies conflict with laws on content management and organizations' desires to track use of the Internet. (4/27/2001 at Web Review)
Peering Is Your Future
A recap of the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference: Clay Shirky's keynote, P2P security, and where it's all going. (3/5/2001 at builder.com)
Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution
Tim O'Reilly posits that obscurity is a greater threat to artists than piracy; and that media piracy is effectively "progressive taxation" for popular artists to pay. (12/11/2002 at OpenP2P.com)
Plugging RDF Content Into Your Site With PHP
With some PHP knowhow and free RSS feeds, you can leverage other people's content to keep your website constantly changing. (2/27/2002 at DevShed)
Professional XML Web Services
An excerpt from Chapter 3 of "Professional XML Web Services": SOAP Fundamentals and SOAP Messages. (11/12/2001 at WebReference.com)
Programming Web Services With XML-RPC
An excerpt from the O'Reilly book Programming Web Services With XML-RPC, showing how to use PHP to integrate 2 web services. (7/18/2001 at XML.com)
Rights Fielder
In this interview, Lawrence Lessig talks about the way peer-to-peer technology takes control of the network away from the network owners; and how intellectual property will change, but not disappear, in coming years. (11/17/2000 at Red Herring)
Set up a .Net Test Server
How to set up a machine for playing around with Microsoft's .Net framework - setting up IIS, MS SQL 2000, the .Net Framework SDK, and starting with a simple database app. (7/17/2001 at builder.com)
Size Matters: Gnutella Worm Leaves a Trail
A "proof of concept" worm has been released on Gnutella; it has spread very slowly, but demonstrates the ability to spread unwanted programs on file-sharing networks. (2/27/2001 at ZDNet)
A Smarter Web
Tim Berners-Lee is still working on his vision of a semantic web, where machines can easily exchange ideas and information; several organizations, including DARPA, are working to make the semantic web a reality. (10/22/2001 at Technology Review (MIT))
SMS Relay -- An Idea for Fault-Tolerant Communications
By using every cell phone as a relay point, wireless providers could use peer-to-peer paradigms to create communications networks that would not be brought down by the destruction of the providers' own base stations or heavy network use. (9/28/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
SOAP: Clean and Secure
Information on privacy and security in connection with distributed systems, focusing on SOAP. (7/13/2001 at Web Techniques)
Sun Plans System for Sharing Computer Files Over Internet
Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems is announcing Project Juxtapose, a peer-to-peer technology that should allow easy sharing of personal files, multimedia, etc. between personal computers over the Internet. (4/25/2001 at The New York Times)
Sun to Open "Expanded Web" With Jxta
Sun plans to release Jxta, software designed to run on devices that today's Internet can't run on; it will be based on peer-to-peer technology, release as open-source software, and development will be coordinated by CollabNet. (4/24/2001 at News.com)
The Swarmcast Solution
OpenCola has released a public beta of Swarmcast - peer-to-peer-like software that distributes very large files (such as multimedia) by splitting them into small packets and having downloading machines get the packets from multiple sources. (5/24/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
Taking P2P to Corporate America
An interview with Ray Ozzie, inventor of Lotus Notes and now CEO of P2P start-up Groove Networks. (2/21/2001 at News.com)
VeriSign to Provide Authentication Services for MS' .NET
Verisign will provide authentication and security technology to support Microsoft's .Net. (7/10/2001 at InternetNews.com)
Wall St. Begins to Adopt Napster-Like Peer Computing
Start-up DataSynapse is using peer-to-peer technology to speed calculations at financial services firms. (4/24/2001 at Excite News)
Web Services: It's So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work
The problem with Web Services, and all the protocols involved, is that they still rely on human intervention: remote applications can't be made to understand each other automatically; people have to tell the applications what to expect, and how to interac (10/3/2001 at XML.com)
What Web Services Are NOT
A discussion of what web services - which essentially "expose some business functionality over the Internet using the SOAP protocol" - are not designed to do. (2/16/2002 at WebReference.com)
Why O'Reilly and .NET?
Dale Dougherty explains why O'Reilly, which typically focuses on open-source software, will publish articles about Microsoft's .NET. (5/31/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
The Worldwide Computer
A description of an Internet-scale operating system, which would take care of scheduling distributed tasks on users' computers. (3/2/2002 at Scientific American)
You Have Mail!
Using Perl, procmail, and Jabber to get instant notifications of incoming email. (3/9/2001 at OpenP2P.com)
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