Reading a bit more in this thread, I think 'federated social network' is a more accurate term than 'p2p social network' with regards to examples I'm looking for.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Susheel Daswani <[email protected]>wrote: > Adam, the use-case I have in mind is not specific - I am asking generally > about the feasibility of running facebook on top of a distributed social > network. Lately I've become concerned about the concentration of power in > Facebook's hands. > > From a theoretical point of view I don't see why a distributed social net > couldn't work. GMail works with YahooMail works with Hotmail, etc. Of course > there are much bigger challenges distributing a social net across different > providers, but it should be achievable. > > So when I say P2P I don't necessarily mean fully distributed - I mean more > of the e-mail model. > > Best, > Susheel > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Adam Fisk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't really know of any per se, but I also think it's a tricky >> proposition. As Mr. Gorton always used to say, P2P works best for big files, >> and I really agree. The raw social networking stuff is so data driven and so >> cheap and predominantly such small files that I think doing it via p2p is >> making a relatively simple problem all of a sudden hard. >> >> That said, I'm sure you have a specific use-case in mind, or you wouldn't >> have asked =). >> >> -Adam >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Susheel Daswani <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know of any? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Susheel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> p2p-hackers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Adam Fisk >> http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | >> http://twitter.com/adamfisk >> > >
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