http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/ The explosive growth in Social Networking sites is starting to develop a backlash where people are asking for personal control...
Hi all, Just a heads up on another couple of list updates: 25th-27th August 2004 P2P 2004 The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing ...
New Yorkers for Fair Use Call to General Assembly ... Internet Commons Congress 2004 March 24-25, 2004, Outside Washington, DC Scheduled Sessions/Participants:...
This sounds good - up to the non fair-use related points about Microsoft (no easy choice, 'SCO is agent of MS'). Bringing that in makes it sound partisan,...
... Yes, I think I agree. When I came across that section, I was wondering why Microsoft was important enough to mention by name. I realized that Palladium...
I thank both of you for this input, and I will note that I myself observed that aspect in one of my later reads of the thing (after a considerable process of...
It's been observed before that google works by harnessing the collective opinion of the Internet about a page in deciding how important the page is for a given...
A question on all our minds, I know, is why RSS, rather than a server-initiated event model? This guy argues -- persuasively in my view -- that...
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 15, 2004 3:42 pm
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... Yes, but assume the following (without challenge): 1) I want my client to be updated almost instantly when any one of a very large number of RSS feeds...
... [...] ... Sounds like someone needs to be informed about Spread. Brian...
Brian Behlendorf
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Mar 15, 2004 5:54 pm
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Seth Russell wrote: ... A good place to start would be insuring that your clients support the 304 Not Modified return code. Googling for "rss not modified 304"...
... Good point! But I am not convinced that the a million-to-million computers can keep each other updated instantly (or near instantly) with a simple...
... I think there is, but it involves having a long-term store and forward protocol like email that can reliably contain data intended for machines to read. ...
... On the other hand, there is a way to save bandwidth that conserves the client-driven nature of RSS -- use a centralized aggregator like Bloglines....
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 15, 2004 8:09 pm
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... Nor am I. A real world million-to-million, nearly real-time scenario would require a significantly different approach. Maybe a P2P publish/subscribe...
... I don't think so, at least not in an ideal :) world. The user only has to hit Bloglines once to check all her feeds. If the average user has 100 subs...
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 15, 2004 10:47 pm
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... Couldn't you use some sort of swarming approach (like bittorrent) where, if possible, you try to get the updates from peers, rather than from the source? ...
The answer is to do a meta-push. You build your system primarily around a pull-based design so that you gain the simplicity and robustness of the pull-based...
Justin Chapweske
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Mar 16, 2004 6:00 pm
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... Slashdot. Ironically. -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: julian.bond at voidstar.com Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ Personal WebLog:...
On Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004, at 13:00 America/New_York, Justin Chapweske ... This pretty well describes the architecture of RSS pings....
Lucas Gonze
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Mar 16, 2004 6:56 pm
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Our apologies if you received multiple copies. ... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Fourth International Scientific Workshop on GLOBAL and PEER-TO-PEER Computing "From...
Adriana Iamnitchi
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Mar 17, 2004 12:25 am
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http://www.movabletype.org/news/2004_03.shtml#000912 With a suite of comment management features and versatile comment registration--utilizing a centralized...