Someone here recently asked about "Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power
of Disruptive Technologies" edited by Andy Oram, recently flogged by
amazon.com.
I ordered the book and am currently at Chapter Seven (after scanning
the table of contents, etc).
After reading the previous description of the O'Reilly P2P conference,
I'd have to say that the notes on the conference sound like excerpts
from the book! (Tim O'Reilly has an interesting description/diagram of
the meme for P2P, both as it's perceived and as he thinks it ought to
be perceived.)
So if you liked the notes on the conference, get the book. It's divided
into three parts: context & overview; projects (SETi@home, jabber,
gnutella...); and technical topics (metadata, reputation, security...).
Shelley
USC ISD
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