Dave Winer: P2P

InfoWorld: Ozzie: Collaboration tools must be natural. Ray says that HTML-based collaborative software isn't "natural." Hmmm. Heh. Nahh. Maybe. We'll see. ";->"

Long before Sun rolls out JXTA, peer-to-peer is a fading memory. There was enough juice to keep the idea alive until the O'Reilly conf, great party, now it's over. [Scripting News]

DJ Adams: "In this article, I'd like to show you how easy it is to put together a simple system for pager-style notification of incoming mail, using some standard tools, Perl and, of course, Jabber."

Dylan Tweney on the P2P conf: "So, what's the business model for this thing? Who knows? Who cares! This is cool!"

Eric Kidd: XML-RPC Howto. "It includes sample clients and servers in Perl, Python, C, C++, Java and PHP. It shows you how to implement an XML-RPC server as a CGI, using either Perl or C." A tour-de-force.

Eric Kidd released XML-RPC for C/C++.

Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS.

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Dale Dougherty: "Low bandwidth and poor quality continue to limit the successful distribution of audio and video on the Web. There may be a better way, however, to distribute multimedia content online, by scheduling downloads of high-quality content for appointment viewing or listening." Yes.

What is Consilient?

A cult hero in the software world. Ray Ozzie wants to unlock once again the technology chains that bind you. The software hero who fashioned Lotus Notes now brings us peer-to-peer collaboration software. Mr. Ozzie is betting that Groove Networks will become as ubiquitous as email or the Web browser.

Interactive Week: Peer Pressure. "I don't think Microsoft cares about 'providing leadership' so much as becoming a player over time," said Clay Shirky, partner at investment firm Accelerator Group, who has been monitoring P2P companies. "At a guess, Microsoft will buy whoever's good when the smoke starts clearing."

O'Reilly Network: The Case Against Micropayments. Clay Shirky. The very micro-ness of micropayments makes them confusing. At the very least, users will be persistently puzzled over the conflicting messages of "This is worth so much you have to decide whether to buy it or not" and "This is worth so little that it has virtually no cost to you."

Freshmeat: Mojo Nation 0.934. Data sharing system with micropayments and reputation filtering.

ZDNN: Netdocs: Microsoft's .Net poster child? According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.

Washington Post: "The Internet is proving to be a difficult place to make a profit."

Confirmation came that I am speaking at O'Reilly's P2P conference about The Two-Way-Web on Wed, 2/14/01 at 1:15PM. Good time slot. One-half-hour. Thanks to the O'Reilly folks for letting me participate. I'm going to talk about what's hot in P2P and TTWW. I'll start a new site in a few days. It's time to get this stuff organized.