On 16 Feb 2009, at 02:01, Jens Alfke wrote:
On Feb 15, 2009, at 11:10 AM, I wrote:
I'm interested in using CouchDB in a peer-to-peer fashion to
propagate content between nodes that don't necessarily trust each
other.
FYI, I just finished writing a breathless blog post on this topic,
including an enthusiastic endorsement of CouchDB:
http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/what-will-web-30-be/
In a nutshell: My hope is that “Web 3.0” (which I agree is a silly
term and an over-generalization) will center around the
decentralization of Web applications. Web 2.0 distributed content
production out to the end users, but the servers hosting the data
and the apps are still monolithic and proprietary. I've been hoping
for a long time that things can evolve in a more distributed (if not
truly peer-to-peer) direction, and CouchDB really seems like a big
step toward there.
Thanks Jens, that's a very good read and it nicely summarizes
what we strive for. I know you've been reading Chris's blog and
our book so I guess you came across CouchApp. There's a separate
mailing list* (and IRC channel** on Freenode) to push that particular
building block of what you describe as the next version of the web :)
* http://groups.google.com/group/couchapp/
** #couchapp
Also, thanks for plugging the book *and* the nice feedback :)
Cheers
Jan
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