Peace Swarm. Here's a little experiment in social software. I've been talking with Jack Bury, a 20-year-old American poet living in Amsterdam, who is part of a tiny start-up trying to get some traction for "Eyebees," a Microsoft IE add-in. (It'll be open sourced eventually.) The add-in puts a frame on the left of your browser that shows you up to 200 little dots (Eyebees), each representing another person in the "swarm" you've joined. Their relative position shows which pages they're currently viewing. If a few people are each looking at, say, Doc's blog, then you'll see the five Eyebees clustered... [Joho the Blog]
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The Economist looks at technology and geographical location. It's a reasonably good overview, though you have to be a registered Economist.com or Economist subscriber to read it. It... [Blog.org]
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P2P Technical and Social.

From Communications of theACM

( Association for Computing Machinery) February 2003 comes a free issue that is also a special issue on the “Technical and social components of peer-to-peer computing’
Contributing authors discuss what people really do with P2P technologies, as well as what people’s expectations are from this technology.

As the editorial points out “Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing was on the fast track long before Napster put it on the map for general consumption. P2P is, in fact, a natural offshoot of the Net, where "community" and "sharing" among friends, colleagues, and strangers are prime attractions. P2P networking allows users to connect and collaborate without a central hub governing the operation. But from these noncommercial roots have sprouted many business and commercial applications, and just as many exaggerated claims. This month's special section looks beyond the hyperbole to the real science behind and potential for P2P computing, particularly its technical and social components.”

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