[JaxPM] [NON-PERL] FW: O'Reilly Network Announces openp2p.com Web Site

[JONES, WILLIAM C]

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> From: 	Denise Olliffe
> Sent: 	Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:48 PM
> To: 	bill at fccj.org
> Subject: 	O'Reilly Network Announces openp2p.com Web Site
> 
> FYI:
> 
> OPENP2P.COM WEB SITE AIMS TO HELP DEVELOPERS CREATE THE INTERNET'S NEXT
> GENERATION 
> New O'Reilly Site Covers the Fast-Moving World of Peer-to-Peer
> Technologies
> 
> O'Reilly Network's newest technology web site, openp2p.com, launches
> today with technical, analytical, and news coverage of Peer-to-Peer
> (P2P) technology. Best known because of the music file-sharing site
> Napster, Peer-to-Peer encompasses a broad collection of technologies
> with far-reaching implications for Internet and computer usage in
> general. Key technologies related to P2P include Microsoft's .NET,
> Java, and XML. As Red Herring author Lee Bruno wrote in a special issue
> on the technology, "P2P is likely to forever change the way we think
> about sharing digital information across networks."
> 
> Today's issue includes:
> * "The Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs," an essay by Clay Shirky which
> suggests that the future of distributed computing will be controlled by
> companies that control the desktop. Shirky writes extensively about the
> social and economic effects of the Internet, and is a keynote speaker
> at The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference.
> 
> * "The Power of Metadata," a technical essay by Rael Dornfest and Dan
> Brickley on the need for standardized metadata on P2P systems. The
> essay will be published in the O'Reilly book "Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing
> the Power of Disruptive Technologies." 
> 
> * Tim O'Reilly's guide to the best sessions at O'Reilly's Peer-to-Peer
> Conference, to be held February 14-16, 2001, in San Francisco.
> 
> In future weeks, the site will include interviews with Bill Joy, chief
> scientist of Sun and inventor of JINI, legal expert Lawrence Lessig,
> and Intel P2P advocate Bob Knighten.
> 
> openp2p.com consists of:
> * Feature articles, profiles and interviews with P2P technologists and
> leaders 
> * Daily digest of P2P news via O'Reilly Network's groundbreaking
> Meerkat, a news syndication system
> * Collections of important articles and papers on P2P 
> * Information on The O'Reilly P2P Conference, including coverage of the
> event and content from its presenters 
> * Selected essays from O'Reilly's upcoming book, "Peer-to-Peer:
> Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies"
> * Weekly email newsletter on the latest developments in the P2P world 
> * A rich archive of the most important articles, documents, and papers
> on P2P
> 
> The new site's goals are two-fold. The first is to help developers
> create the P2P technology that will represent the next generation of
> the Internet. The second is to help managers and executives understand
> the directions that P2P is going, and how those directions will impact
> information services over the Internet.
> 
> openp2p.com also features a directory of P2P companies, as well as
> catalogs of important articles, white papers and proposals, in such
> areas as distributed file sharing, distributed computation, instant
> messaging, P2P on devices, peered web services, distributed metadata,
> security, reputation and trust, performance and reliability.
> 
> O'REILLY & PEER-TO-PEER
> openp2p.com is one aspect of O'Reilly & Associates' comprehensive
> interest in P2P. From February 14-16, O'Reilly will host The
> Peer-to-Peer Conference in San Francisco. O'Reilly's upcoming book,
> "Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies," to be
> released at the O'Reilly Conference, is another demonstration of the
> company's interest in this influential group of technologies.
> 
> THE IMPORTANCE OF PEER-TO-PEER TECHNOLOGIES
> Peer-to-Peer describes a decentralized network in which all computers
> function as equals. While there are a number of variations of P2P, not
> all of which strictly adhere to this definition, P2P is understood to
> represent a significant shift from the client-server model which has
> reigned in the computer industry for many years. P2P is already being
> used for many applications besides Napster: distributed computing,
> collaborative and interactive workgroups, device-to-device
> communication, instant messaging, and presence management. Stanford law
> professor Lawrence Lessig, author of "Code and Other Laws of
> Cyberspace," has said, "P2P is the next great thing for the Internet.
> We haven't even begun to understand or imagine the possibilities."
> 
> FURTHER INFORMATION
> http://openp2p.com/
> 
> The Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs
> by Clay Shirky
> http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/18/shirky_umbrellas.html
> 
> The Power of Metadata
> by Rael Dornfest and Dan Brickley
> http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/18/metadata.html
> 
> Tim O'Reilly's Guide to the P2P Conference
> http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/18/tim_conf.html
> 
> The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/
> 
> Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
> edited by Andy Oram
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/peertopeer/
> 
> O'Reilly Network
> http://www.oreillynet.com/
> 
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